The group is slowly getting bigger and the main reason as to why I think it is doing that is because on FaceBook people get random invites to groups such as "Make Nando's Deliver" which obviously people would not care about so at first glance at my group people would dismiss it.
Hopefully word of mouth will get my group more recognised.
The script is going a lot slower than I had planned, making the conversations between characters is harder than it sounds as one would have to get to know the characters background, understand why the act they way they act, think they way they would. You would not expect someone like Tyler (in FightClub) to go to someone's house and be all romantic with the opposite sex, it is not his character.
I can not really do a lot more until I get the script out of the way, at least past its second draft as that is when the script begins to be more finalised. Once near completion I will be able to contact actors to play roles in my film, I can not ask actors to be a part of a film which does not even have a script that flows. They would not take it seriously.
I will begin to make posters, manipulate images to make the progress of my project more fluid and hopefully it will help pick up the speed of the production.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Back in the UK
I am glad to be back but the time away in Chile has made me work on my written work a lot more, the second draft of the story - which I thought I could not improve - I did! I added a few things here and there and noticed the smaller details as to which were not possible to do during filming but would be great in the story. I tried to make the story tie in as much as it can with the movie so people can relate and compare the two.
As for the script I felt that making a rough version was a good idea and I had a look a script online that of George A. Romero who directed the original Dawn of the Dead in 1978, this script of his was meant to be for the third Resident Evil but it did not get used which I feel is a great shame as I think it would make a better film. I made the script so that it is easy to read but (and this was obviously going to happen) I need to make the dialogue for complimentary, for this I need the help of friends in order to hear the characters lines through someone else's voice but mine.
The make up tests I did when I arrived back went very well, the blood looks very shiny which makes it look even more real, I smeared it around my mouth and hands and for the small touch ups I poured a small amount of black food dye in my mouth and dabbed a small bit around my eyes. The effect is has is amazing, the blood dye in the mouth shows oxide blood, when blood gets a lot of oxygen it starts to go 'old' so to speak, the colour changes to be more darker.
The top I was using in the make up tests was an old top, I ripped off the sleeves and splattered the blood mixture on the item of clothing. I messed up my hair so it is not neat and tidy but messy and untamed. Once I was in the right character I made some stances in which a zombie would make and my friend Michael Skinner took pictures of me.
The test went extremely well and it was the exact effect I was looking for and I am very pleased I achieved this on the first attempt, I really doubt this could have gone any better.
As for the script I felt that making a rough version was a good idea and I had a look a script online that of George A. Romero who directed the original Dawn of the Dead in 1978, this script of his was meant to be for the third Resident Evil but it did not get used which I feel is a great shame as I think it would make a better film. I made the script so that it is easy to read but (and this was obviously going to happen) I need to make the dialogue for complimentary, for this I need the help of friends in order to hear the characters lines through someone else's voice but mine.
The make up tests I did when I arrived back went very well, the blood looks very shiny which makes it look even more real, I smeared it around my mouth and hands and for the small touch ups I poured a small amount of black food dye in my mouth and dabbed a small bit around my eyes. The effect is has is amazing, the blood dye in the mouth shows oxide blood, when blood gets a lot of oxygen it starts to go 'old' so to speak, the colour changes to be more darker.
The top I was using in the make up tests was an old top, I ripped off the sleeves and splattered the blood mixture on the item of clothing. I messed up my hair so it is not neat and tidy but messy and untamed. Once I was in the right character I made some stances in which a zombie would make and my friend Michael Skinner took pictures of me.
The test went extremely well and it was the exact effect I was looking for and I am very pleased I achieved this on the first attempt, I really doubt this could have gone any better.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Its All Kicking Off Now
Alas I have altered the first draft of the story and I am pleased with what I have thrown in there. Quarantine:Breached the story seems to be going in a better narrated direction than I had originally thought, now I am thinking is there room for further improvements or will that ruin the story?
Last blog I spoke of doing make up tests...well I did do it as well as create the Quarantine:Breached group on FaceBook which I am not sure you are able to see unless you join FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17856471223
I have created this group in order to share to the people of the World Wide Web what is going on, the latest news in the development of my project, the show people who join or even visit the group images I have taken which include the gruelling blood bath I did at night and now the even more recent make up tests. For the sake of keeping up interest I have edited the upload date of the images on the FaceBook group to show more interesting things keep coming out from the this project.
I have friends joining the group which helps me a lot as no one had any idea I was making a film in the first place and the feedback I have received is great. I hope that the word of my film making project will spread and that I get a lot more people to become fans of Quarantine:Breached.
While in Chile I have no equipment to use for further material of my work so I have begun to do a rough script which I can then edit with no problem. The advantage of being in Chile is that I have not got the same distractions as I had while in England such as television, friends and the usual going out, the disadvantage of being in Chile is the mood here is quite uncomfortable and I have no equipment to carry out my work.
Last blog I spoke of doing make up tests...well I did do it as well as create the Quarantine:Breached group on FaceBook which I am not sure you are able to see unless you join FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17856471223
I have created this group in order to share to the people of the World Wide Web what is going on, the latest news in the development of my project, the show people who join or even visit the group images I have taken which include the gruelling blood bath I did at night and now the even more recent make up tests. For the sake of keeping up interest I have edited the upload date of the images on the FaceBook group to show more interesting things keep coming out from the this project.
I have friends joining the group which helps me a lot as no one had any idea I was making a film in the first place and the feedback I have received is great. I hope that the word of my film making project will spread and that I get a lot more people to become fans of Quarantine:Breached.
While in Chile I have no equipment to use for further material of my work so I have begun to do a rough script which I can then edit with no problem. The advantage of being in Chile is that I have not got the same distractions as I had while in England such as television, friends and the usual going out, the disadvantage of being in Chile is the mood here is quite uncomfortable and I have no equipment to carry out my work.
Saturday, 5 April 2008
Picture Crazy
It is important to note that I am currently in Chile - South America visiting family in an important time of need. But before I left I have done some work and I hope to do more when I have the spare time here.
I went out to South Norwood with some friends at 2am in the morning to get the complete dark/night time effect, we made some fake blood and went around splattering it around on white walls to give off a scene of a violent attack. The result was that it went down very well. For this I had to use the washing up liquid to make it run against the wall, it did look like someone had been attacked viciously so in order to not cause a scene of disturbance we decided to clean the area of the markings with some cleaning products and leave the walls the way they were before we violated it.
I will be uploading these images to the Quarantine:Breached Group which I will create later on this week or even today.
I feel that today was a great success and I hope I am able to use these images in my project.
Tomorrow I will do the make up tests since I feel ready to get down and dirty. This will take place in my own home so I am able to do more work on my first draft of the story as well as make up mixtures.
I went out to South Norwood with some friends at 2am in the morning to get the complete dark/night time effect, we made some fake blood and went around splattering it around on white walls to give off a scene of a violent attack. The result was that it went down very well. For this I had to use the washing up liquid to make it run against the wall, it did look like someone had been attacked viciously so in order to not cause a scene of disturbance we decided to clean the area of the markings with some cleaning products and leave the walls the way they were before we violated it.
I will be uploading these images to the Quarantine:Breached Group which I will create later on this week or even today.
I feel that today was a great success and I hope I am able to use these images in my project.
Tomorrow I will do the make up tests since I feel ready to get down and dirty. This will take place in my own home so I am able to do more work on my first draft of the story as well as make up mixtures.
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