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lostcarparkI was in a movie! As a zombie! Here's a pic!
It was a "no-budget b-movie". Most of it had already been filmed in a school (the same school I went to, by an amazing coincidence), but they needed some extra shots to cap it all off. They wanted to show zombies in deserted streets, so they were planning to shoot early on a Sunday morning, before there was any people or traffic about. That meant starting shooting at first light (about 7:30am), which meant having prospective zombies there even earlier for make-up.
I arrived at about a quarter to seven, but some of the others had been there for make-up from 5am. Insane. However, by this stage, several people had already been kitted out with some spectacular make-up.
Filming started nearer 8am, because the make-up (done by Simon Crane, another friend of mine, by another amazing coincidence).
The first shot involved the director eating flesh from a corpse (the flesh was a foul-smelling concoction of various household products which produced a substance which looked impressively like decomposing flesh. I believe it tasted foul. For the record, he did swallow.
There was also a guy walking around in the background with his lower jaw missing. Well, hopefully his jaw will be missing in the finished shot. What they filmed was a guy walking around with his chin painted blue, which apparently will allow them to do a sort-of reverse blue-screen. It'll look cool if it works.
I didn't see any of this though, because I was still havinging my make-up fitted. Mine was less impressive than the people who got up really early, but it still looked cool, with bits of painted-on latex looking impressively like flesh hanging off. I appeared in a couple of shots with lots of zombies roaming the streets. Hopefully it will look cool when it's finished.
Jay who was directing will be one of the guest speakers at the next Dublin Sci-Fi club, which should be interesting.
It was a "no-budget b-movie". Most of it had already been filmed in a school (the same school I went to, by an amazing coincidence), but they needed some extra shots to cap it all off. They wanted to show zombies in deserted streets, so they were planning to shoot early on a Sunday morning, before there was any people or traffic about. That meant starting shooting at first light (about 7:30am), which meant having prospective zombies there even earlier for make-up.
I arrived at about a quarter to seven, but some of the others had been there for make-up from 5am. Insane. However, by this stage, several people had already been kitted out with some spectacular make-up.
Filming started nearer 8am, because the make-up (done by Simon Crane, another friend of mine, by another amazing coincidence).
The first shot involved the director eating flesh from a corpse (the flesh was a foul-smelling concoction of various household products which produced a substance which looked impressively like decomposing flesh. I believe it tasted foul. For the record, he did swallow.
There was also a guy walking around in the background with his lower jaw missing. Well, hopefully his jaw will be missing in the finished shot. What they filmed was a guy walking around with his chin painted blue, which apparently will allow them to do a sort-of reverse blue-screen. It'll look cool if it works.
I didn't see any of this though, because I was still havinging my make-up fitted. Mine was less impressive than the people who got up really early, but it still looked cool, with bits of painted-on latex looking impressively like flesh hanging off. I appeared in a couple of shots with lots of zombies roaming the streets. Hopefully it will look cool when it's finished.
Jay who was directing will be one of the guest speakers at the next Dublin Sci-Fi club, which should be interesting.
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Date: 2003-10-02 05:37 pm (UTC)You all look truly horrible! Congratulations!
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Date: 2003-10-02 05:43 pm (UTC)A friend of mine is working on a film too...just some comedy/drama thing, I still haven't worked out where it's going, but it's fun.
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Date: 2003-10-02 06:45 pm (UTC)Crazy(just by coincidence, will be watching Six Feet Under tonight - but their stiffs all look good...)Soph
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Date: 2003-10-03 08:48 am (UTC)Well, someone had to say it