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Has anyone done a Zombie film with their 5d yet? I've been watching 'The Walking Dead' and found it pretty interesting show. I'm thinking of doing a short 10 minute Zombie film.
 
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Started working on the script today I'm going to try and keep it at five minutes. I don't want the project to look cheeesssyyy like some of the Zombie films I have seen. Keep it short and sweet. Has anyone done makeup on a Zombie film? I'm using the 5d mkiii and as for lenses Canon 70-200mm 2.8 IS II and the Sigma 50mm 1.4. I haven't used my camera yet so this will be a good learning experiences for me. Any feedback or thoughts would be great.
 
I remember seeing this one from you before. Do they do this every year? The footage look pretty good. I should fly over there and shoot my zombie film LOL
 
We have a zombie web series shot on a 5D mark II. The Great Dying. We have released five episodes a while ago (first episode at about the same time as the first The Walking Dead episode) but are thinking of maybe doing a couple more.

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New_Zealand said:
I remember seeing this one from you before. Do they do this every year? The footage look pretty good. I should fly over there and shoot my zombie film LOL
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Yes, they do that every year. And there are similar events all around the globe, so you don't need to actually fly all across the world for this!! (the only way you could be farther away from here would be by climbing to your desk or something like that). And yes: there were at least two very small crews using all these zombies as extras for their projects. Lots of people dress up and go there trying to gather attention, so they love getting their picture taken, posing for videos, etc: I'll definitely be back next year!
 
Klas, those shots are incredible. The lighting and grading is very well done. I'd love to hear more about your post process, what glass you used, etc.

We have a local horror film festival that runs every year where people make films and compete, I'm definitely taking part next time.
 
Thanks, DevonH. I don't want to hijack this thread but I guess I can write a little bit about it. Over at cinematography.com I have a thread with some info on a couple of shots. I have a thread here at dvxuser too. Though I am not an expert at all on post processing. Usually I will try to get the look in the camera.

I can talk a little bit about this shot:

This have a new color correction that I did for a thing, if we will continue the series I will probably redo(among other things) some of the color correction. On the actual episode the colors are more washed out and looks like this:


Maybe dirtier and more post apocalyptic but I like the new one more. But the look comes mainly from the lighting.
I have two stills from the lighting setups too. They have only a little bit of raw processing done to them:



I was a little bit bummed after lighting the tighter shot when I realized we had the actor take off his hood while sitting down on the wider image. It looks cooler with it on. ;) In the actual episode it is off.

On these two setups I have used 60's Takumar lenses. A 55mm F1.8 on the tighter shot and a 35mm F1.2 for the wider shots. These two and my 135mm F3.5 are my three go to lenses on this whole production. I love them. I also used the F4 24-105mm L-series kitlens for the 5DMii. Almost exclusively used as a 24mm prime on this production. I have come to love the Takumars and how they look on full frame 35mm from shooting lots and lots of 35mm stills on my old pentax slr. They have metal casing, pretty long focus throw, are very cheap and have a great look. Love them!

What I want to say about this is that personally I tend to light and expose for my look. I am not one of these "shot flat and fix look in post" -type of guys. Of course there are times when I can't fix it on set. As with the night shot in my earlier post. It was done day for night in snow which meant I had to rely heavily on rotoscoping.
 
Thanks for the links and elaborating a bit, I'll certainly go check them out, excellent work all around. I'm about to begin investing in old contax zeiss lenses for similar reasons.
 
I was the DoP on the feature Zombie Hood (www.zombiehood.co.uk) and shot on a 550d/T2i.
Biggest challenges I found were keeping the blood looking real and having bites and tears obscured by excitable zombie extras.
 
dustylense said:
Zombie movies rule! I'll never tire of them.
This looks to be shot on 5d's.
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When I see great footage like this it makes me love what can be done with 5d's and great concept/art. Yet I see examples of aliasing and moire in many other types of projects and it looks horrible. The use of shallow DOF is the strength if this camera. Looks Excellent!
 
J.F.R. said:
When I see great footage like this it makes me love what can be done with 5d's and great concept/art. Yet I see examples of aliasing and moire in many other types of projects and it looks horrible.
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Wasn't this done with the 5d mark III? That takes away the aliasing/moire problem.
 
dustylense said:
Zombie movies rule! I'll never tire of them.
This looks to be shot on 5d's.
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Looks good. I like how they clevely turned the jelly wobbles into an editing 'feature'. An example of work with what you've got. The zombies coming out of the ground were done particularly well. Loved the flaky paint on the vehicle. Brilliant production design.
 
Finished my first preview and now working on my second one just to give a taste of the film. Full production will be later next year. Filming location New Zealand. Our Zombies are going to be pretty mean and far from fake looking. The FX is being done by a company that works with Steven Spielberg (Dream Works) they also worked on 'The Walking Dead' along with Disney and Warner Bros. So we got a really great team on this project.
 
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