Zombies and PhotoKey!1

So, for today as promised, here is a pretty massive update featuring two reviews, my new zombie film’s page and this article featuring some news and insight into what I’ve been doing the last couple of days in terms of filmmaking, gaming and movies I’ve watched, and are going to see soon.

So let’s start off with what I’ve been up to in filmmaking. I’ve been working on my upcoming zombie film I’m making with four friends in film class for school. It’s due to be finished early next year, and we are going into production soon. This will probably be the most advanced film make-up wise I’ve ever been involved with. Our film team has some really cool skills in all kinds of different jobs, and it’s going to be a lot of fun to see just how the zombie make-up will turn out. The script is as I said a few days ago finished, and we are currently finding actors and locations to shoot. Expect images and more when it rolls into production, which should be sometime very, very soon. I’ve also been working on the edit for “Connected”, which I started shooting a couple of weeks ago. It has turned out pretty good so far, and I’m trying to edit this in a slightly different way than I’m used to. I don’t want to say too much right now, but hopefully you’ll find it interesting and fun to watch.

I almost havn’t had time to play any video games at all the last couple of days, which is a bit sad, especially considering how many amazing games are being realised both the last week, this week, and the upcoming two weeks. It’s a great time to be a gamer, that’s for sure, but it’s also a bad time to be science-class student with a gaming and filmmaking interest, like me . I have compiled a list of some games I deem neccessary to play at least before christmas, and it includes great scoring games such as Assassins Creed, Call of Duty 4, Ratchet & Clank Future, Crysis, Guitar Hero III, Haze and Drake’s Fortune. I’ll obviously try to get my hands on every one of these games, but I will probably and expectedely fail miserably at that .

So I’ve been watching some pretty cool films and TV shows the last couple of days. Currently re-watching the third season of “Lost” with my father (he hasn’t seen it before) and I recently discovered I had four unwatched discs in an old CSI box. In “real” films, I recently saw “The Hitcher” featuring among other Rutger Hauer. It was a pretty good film, not really worth buying, but definently worth renting! As I’ve written before, I’m going to see Saw IV on Friday (picked up the tickets today) and I’ll also write a review on the same day. Reviews from websites are coming in concerning the film, saying it’s pretty bad, but I think it will be really awesome! So look forward to the Saw IV review this Friday. I’m also considering going and seeing a new film called “Michael Clayton”, featuring George Clooney. It has been getting some great reviews and is currently playing in a small theatre just a couple of blocks from here, so I might see that one someday as well.

I’ve been thinking about my reviews, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be trying to write at least one review every week. Not on a specific day just to make that clear, but I’m aiming for one every calendar week, as it seems they are quite popular among readers, judging from the e-mails I’m getting!

Two now cool things for filmmaking and photography were released in the last week. First of all, FXhome released their new software called PhotoKey, which enables users to easily key out green or blue backgrounds from their high resolution photographs. It works great, and I seriously recommend every photographer trying out the demo.

Another thing that was released was a very cool sound FX package (called “Action Audio Pro“) by my good friend Matt Evans over at his website. It can be used to enhance action sequences with some very high quality gunfire and richochet sounds. Make sure to check it out if you’re interested in filmmaking, as it’s a great value at $55 for over 180 sound effects!

I hope you liked the pretty massive update this was, and remember to check out the two new reviews just below this post, the zombie film’s page, FXhome’s PhotoKey and Matt Evans’ new “Action Audio Pro” sound effects package!

So, look forward to the review of “Saw IV” this Friday, and I’ll see you all then!

Take care everyone!