Mike70
18-Feb-2008, 06:16 PM
short but interesting.
from scifiwire:
Dead Was Fun But Hard
Geoge A. Romero told SCI FI Wire that his latest zombie film, Diary of the Dead, pokes fun at the mainstream media, comments on the Internet blogging phenomenon and also sends up horror movie cliches.
But it wasn't all fun and games. Diary of the Dead is shot from the point of view of a group of student filmmakers who set out to document the takeover of the earth by the walking dead. Its style is similar to that of The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield in that it makes use of subjective first-person hand-held camera shooting.
"Oh, man, I just had a ball doing this," Romero said in an interview. "However, everyone says, 'Hey, it must be so free and easy to just turn the camera on and shoot,' and that's not the case. It required, in a way, a lot more discipline than anything I have ever done."
Romero cited as an example one eight-page shot that involved all of the central characters. "They walk into the heroine's house," the director said. "They walk through the living room, through the dining room into the garage, around the car, back around the car, back into the kitchen. ... The choreography was unbelievable. The stunt guys had to duck under the lens. This guy with the light had to duck under the lens when the camera went past him."
Setting up such scenes involved a lot of planning, Romero said. "That shot, it was the only shot we did that day," he said. "We spent six hours setting it up, lighting it, figuring out how to be able to shoot it, and then the rest of the day was just pulling it off and shooting it."
from scifiwire:
Dead Was Fun But Hard
Geoge A. Romero told SCI FI Wire that his latest zombie film, Diary of the Dead, pokes fun at the mainstream media, comments on the Internet blogging phenomenon and also sends up horror movie cliches.
But it wasn't all fun and games. Diary of the Dead is shot from the point of view of a group of student filmmakers who set out to document the takeover of the earth by the walking dead. Its style is similar to that of The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield in that it makes use of subjective first-person hand-held camera shooting.
"Oh, man, I just had a ball doing this," Romero said in an interview. "However, everyone says, 'Hey, it must be so free and easy to just turn the camera on and shoot,' and that's not the case. It required, in a way, a lot more discipline than anything I have ever done."
Romero cited as an example one eight-page shot that involved all of the central characters. "They walk into the heroine's house," the director said. "They walk through the living room, through the dining room into the garage, around the car, back around the car, back into the kitchen. ... The choreography was unbelievable. The stunt guys had to duck under the lens. This guy with the light had to duck under the lens when the camera went past him."
Setting up such scenes involved a lot of planning, Romero said. "That shot, it was the only shot we did that day," he said. "We spent six hours setting it up, lighting it, figuring out how to be able to shoot it, and then the rest of the day was just pulling it off and shooting it."