28 Days Later shot w/ Digital Zoom

The entire ending Brice - after the zombies have died off....I guess it was, well, 28 days after the beginning of the movie. When they were out in the house, making the signal on the front lawn ...


(I can't believe anyone finds my avatar scary - though I guess the star wars holiday special was a bit unsettling).
 
Just the ending was 35mm and was shot as a separate shoot to the rest I believe. After they had rough cut the film I think they were given more money to film a better ending. The DVD shows several different endings they had - one of the storyboarded endings involved them never meeting the soldiers and instead going to the research centre trying to find a cure... weird.

The UK release definitely had the 35mm "Happy Ending" in cinemas.
 
I didn't know that (about the film ending in well....film). Interesting.

As a viewer I had no problem with the look of the film. Looked great to me. Best zombie flick in ages.

Nice AC article too. THX.

-rook
 
John_Hudson said:
Film Trick ? Why is that a trick ?

The beginning is all XL1s.

The end however is indeed film 35mm and the flashback of his parents was done in 8mm.

Why does that bother mention ? It was the end.
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Because, it still has to do with the overall quality of the production. It's not all Mini-DV, and no one bothers to mention that no matter how miniscule a fact it might seem. So what if it's the end of the movie? It's still part of the movie, isn't it? Though it doesn't have anything to do with this specific thread. Just had never read anyone asking why film was used or anything similar.


I'm not sure what I meant by "trick", actually. I can't remember why I use that in conjunction with 28 Days Later all of the time. Go figure.
 
I'm not sure, but I doubt that the reason the ending was shot on 35 was budgetary. danny boyle the director had already made trainspotting, a life less ordinary, and the beach before the did 28 days later. the film could have been shot on 35, he made a decision to shoot on miniDV
 
Kholi said:
Because, it still has to do with the overall quality of the production. It's not all Mini-DV....
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The last few minutes is nonchalant I'd beg.

I suppose no one mention s it cause no one cares about the last 5 minutes :huh:
 
melloyello said:
I'm not sure, but I doubt that the reason the ending was shot on 35 was budgetary. danny boyle the director had already made trainspotting, a life less ordinary, and the beach before the did 28 days later. the film could have been shot on 35, he made a decision to shoot on miniDV
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Yeah I agree, I didn't mean to imply that in my post. I think they were given more money and decided to shoot on 35mm because it would work nicely with the happy ending and they could afford to. Boyle has said that there would have been no way to shoot the empty London scenes on film, it would have taken too long.

Like John says, the ending was pretty lame. I think the film started to head off the rails after they leave London personally. It is hard to write an ending for an apocalyptic film though... I'm working on one at the moment:undecided
 
Luis Caffesse said:
I see your point about November being shot on a newer camera - but then again, 28 Days later had better look better, considering it had an 8million dollar budget compared to November's 300,000 dollar budget.
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I agree with that statement. Whatever they messed up in production they had a bigger budget to clean up in post. Remember "The Blair Witch Project?" Oh, man that movie was ... Anyway, the studio spent a lot of money cleaning that movie up in post. Can you imagine it before...? I think the rest of the money was spent on promoting the movie. Good lesson for any future producers.
 
The story more than makes up for any cinamotographic flaws....but I can't imagine why they would'nt and did'nt use a 35mm adapter. that being said with their budget they would have had their choice of primes. So why use an in camera dig zoom unless it was intentional...for a look.
 
There was an alternate ending where he dies - The end was shot on 35 because that's the look Boyle wanted

The choice was video because of look and for the quick setups with multiple cameras - They only had 2 minutes at a time to hold off traffic and shoot - 35 would have been much harder with this. if not impossible

This was a planned theatrical release from the get go and they would not have hurt the resolution with digital zoom under any circumstances.
 
All I know is it was a real cool movie and looked excellent. Especially those shots of London just deserted!!
 
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