Artifacts from the Apocalypse

In one of my more unfortunate acts of oversight I failed to upload these images months ago when they were posted. Please excuse my error and revel in all the wonderful, wonderfulness of eye catching glory that are Genevieve’s photos. These were from a shoot we did with Gavin, Lauren Buchsbaum, and me (underneath a pile of burlap) a few months ago… Scott did the special effects, Georgi and Rob are behind the camera, and Genevieve provided the stills. Enjoy!

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Where is Lamby?

Sooooooooo… the girl we locked in the closet? These are a few of the pics from that shoot. I’ll be uploading some outtakes soon as well. You of course know Aaron Bidwell and Alex Evans, but I’d like to introduce Cady Swail. She was absolutely brilliant on set and amazing to work with! When we were filming she was all business, as soon as “cut” was called she had us rolling on floor laughing (you’ll see soon enough). Enjoy these for now, outtakes and pics from the music video coming soon.

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Ah ah ah ah ahhhhhtttackkkk! oooohhh…

Way before we plunged. Even before we made actors and actresses eat pounds of overgelled jello, and even earlier than we locked a 10 year old in a closet just because “the lighting was nice”, we did this shoot. Featured in the images are Adam Hinckley, Greg Wilkins, Kirsten Thorson, Georgi Unkovski, Rob Carr, and Liv Earle  (she did all the effects for this shoot). Genevieve is there as well but she’s behind the camera, so unless you catch a reflection you’re not too likely to see her. However, you will see her soon in the new music video that we’ll be wrapping production on this weekend… see you soon in an empty parking lot.

Michael

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We Survived!

This weekend has been a really busy for Green Sweater Studios. We started off Friday night and all day Saturday shooting the music video for Georgi Sareski. The Sunday morning Ed, Jake, Kenny and I headed to Charlotte Beach for the Annual Polar Plunge. If you’re not familiar it’s a benefit to raise money for the Special Olympics and involves 1000 insane individuals running into a freezing lake in costume. Zombies were well represented. This year our team raised over $600 (we’re not sure exactly because Ed and I paid for Jake after Jake had actually paid). Anyway, enjoy the short clip and images from the plunge below, and I’ll be back tomorrow with images from Genevieve.

That’s ice in Kenny’s beard

http://rochester.ynn.com/all-regions-news-2134-content/top_stories/496203/polar-bear-plunge-2010

The above link will take you to the news story where all four of us made it into the video (Kenny yells at the camera with Ed nearby and before that Jake and I are stumbling through the lake.

Director’s Notes 2/11/10

No exciting images for now but plenty of good news. We’ve wrapped two shoots recently, which will have images soon and we’re shooting our music video this weekend for Georgi Sareski’s song Zagreb. Also, to promote the movie and raise money for Special Olympics a few of us will be putting together a small horde to do the Polar Plunge. Anyone who donates will receive a special credit at the end of the movie! Just click this link. Come back soon for pictures from previous shoots and Jake, Ed, and I turning blue.

Again we rise…

Avert your eyes… we’re back to shooting again and the dead are rising with us. Judging by the bloody handprints frozen to the windows this weekends shoot was quite the success. We also welcomed Greg Wilkins (zombie) and Adam Hinckley (Peeping Tom Turned Zombie) to the team. Genevieve was of course on set so we’ll have images soon, and I do think they’ll hold some most delightful surprises. In the meantime here’s an outtake from the end of our shoot where Greg and Adam, but mostly Greg, are singing Forever Young. While you’re enjoying please take note of the wonderful makeup effects provided by Liv Earle who is demonstrating some amazing gore talent. Behind the lens is Georgi, monitoring the sound is Rob, and staring off into a pane of glass in the background is me. Enjoy!

From the Archives …

We’re halfway through shooting now and on a short pause for the holidays. With a little bit of free time I thought I’d add some images from the archives…

A snack for Aaron…

Michael applies latex for Kirsten’s transformation

He needs a lot of help to make this work…

Heather applies makeup for Jake’s “first” transformation

Hmmmmmm….

We’re just not that good at this part.

Scott breaking Kirsten’s nose.

Zombies always prefer pizza before transforming

Where’s his facial hair? oh.

Rachael and Lindsay pause for the camera. Nice sweater!

…. or is she just running from Jake?

Rob sets up the opening shot…

Just in time for Thanksgiving… Wait! that’s not a turkey..

Jake meandering through the scene

Never steal someone’s sister. Never.

Is that really Kirsten? No way.

Nothing warms a zombie like the smell of roasting flesh.

I’ll shoot you in your… cut!

Nothing stranger here officer. Keep moving.

He does this all the time.

When things go bad…

Can’t a girl take a break?

A zombie you can count on.

“We’ve only got one head. Let’s make this work.”

The one on the left really is Kirsten. The one on the right is definitely Gavin.

I’ll never forget that watermelon.

Somethings just not quite right here.

Gavin was harmed in the making of this film.

Aaron! You made it.

Yup. He does this a lot.

He really was there all day.

Director’s Update 11/15/09

Filming has been going along really well. Sorry for the pause in updates, but here’s some more amazing images from Genevieve Williams:

I apologize in advance… I’ll have to add names in a bit because I’m away from character list. If you comment thought I’ll correct it right away.

Michael

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Dave was a really great sport. He came up with Georgi and Rob for the shoot and was recruited for the horde. We promptly removed one of his arms, and sent him off after some brains.

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Annie and Michael dove right in to the pile of clothes for the shoot and came out as an amazing duo. I have to give them full credit for pulling their wardrobe together, and creating an impressive zombie couple.

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The green dress definitely created an aire of sophistication. And what a fantastically elegant zombie she played. Brains on a silver platter anyone?

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Not everyone gets infected while running away. Some just wake up to there “new” persona.

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Ben was a fantastic zombie, especially juxtaposed against Janelle.

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O’neil has been really excited about this project since I started contacting people. His enthusiasm was fantastic and he really brought a lot to the set.

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I wondered who would be able to pull off the tie-dye and David did a great job with it, even with that terrible bite on his neck.

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Here’s Janelle in her dilapidated sweater. Ready for what else? Brains.

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Liv Earle is always up for a good zombie shoot. First she did some makeup this day, and then decided to join the horde… shhhhhhhh… don’t tell anyone.

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Hey Jen Burger! Nice Muumuu. Somebody had to wear it. But could have anyone have done it better?

Below is our “team” of zombies. A great group of soccer players from Wolcott who were roped into this by one of their friends, but I won’t give her away. They were a really fantastic group and were really easygoing about learning to shamble.

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A Little Late But…

as promised some new images.

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Phil holds on to a replica of Alec as Scott attaches the wig….. hmmmmm…. so this is what all that head casting was for….

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Phil gives Alec’s head a prehammer pep talk….

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Getting the head all ready…

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Alec shows the head just how easy it is…

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“They lie! They always lie to me!”

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Jake fresh on the hunt for some more brains….

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Kelly takes a moment to pause for the camera…

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Alec also taking a break from all the head smashing to pause for the camera.

The Horde

As promised we have images from our shoot on October 25th. And even more tomorrow!

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Here Jason Weeks is preparing Alec for the horde. As the parasites infest the body we want bruising, decay, exit wounds, and infection marks.

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Jason Weeks also did a tremendous job with Jake (as seen above). Jake went all out for this shoot and Jason took full advantage of it making by far our goriest and freakiest zombie.

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Liv, who also plays Tegan, is helping with makeup. Here she’s finishing up Dave’s face who’s not “looking so good” anymore.

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Rachael Hetzel stopped her pursuit of brains to pause for the camera and add a little more crunch to her diet.

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Michael Murphy is having a little neck work done by Scott.

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Georgi, working the steadicam, is keeping a keen eye on the action. In the background I’m preparing our soccer team with advice on how to walk like a zombie. Just moan and grrrrrrr….. a whole lot.

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Dear Phil,

We’ll Miss You.

 

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Jason Saxe finishes up makeup on one of the newly infected.