Make a directors cut version with the scary bits!!!

yes, i already plan to have the cast of 20-something "undeads" over for snacks and beers and we can screen a longer DVD version on my nice TV, so they can have a giggle at their spooky selves....

Post the directors cut too somewhere so I can see it. I'm a huge zombie movie fan! :)

(which I can now safely say as it is too late for anyone to reshoot their film as a zombie story!)

YES! I second Dylan's request on your "director's cut".

I think we;re going to see some very creative and even more highly entertaining works than usual out of this round. I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.

I can agree about the director's cut, but please don't release that until the voting is finished.

Uh oh...
 

Well, after all that work it doesn't look like I'll make it. (sigh)

Bill - glad to hear things are looking up and know I'm sending you folks good vibes.

Lorinda and Greg B?!? Whoa! Look out for that one.

Meryem! Zombies are cool.

Hugh! C'mon man. You can do it!

Shot last night and it was amazing! Had so much fun directing and will have even more fun tonight editing. This is not only my first DV Challenge but the first time I've really directed and it was such a great experience. Thanks so much to Dylan and all the others involved with the DV Challenge. You've definitely influenced me so much. I've got more initiative now to shoot when I can instead of waiting for weekend shoots.

well, i disagree with that...anyone who needs zombie footage can still come over to my house and shoot me shuffling off to the coffee pot first thing in the morning...

coooffeee...coooooooffeeeee.

bradley, if you end up on the Wall, i will lose faith in all that is good and right in the world...or, to quote you directly, "Nooooooooooooo....!"

Try Audition or SoundForge or one of the other audio editing programs next time. They allow you to eliminate noise fairly well with various filters and noise sampling options.

Mine is in the can, but I won't upload it to youtube until this weekend.

Sound Forge with the Sony Noise reduction plugin FTW

Glad you're having such a great time with your first DVC, Travis. Can't wait to see your movie!

Keep slashin', dear Bradley...you can do it! :)

:D Thanks! I can't wait to show it!

We're out
 

Lead actress got sick, no viable replacement. We like the concept enough to do it later next week anyway. Such is life.

Friday the 13th + 13
 

So we're filming tonight - for the first time I am NOT going insane with details, plans, ideas etc. Seems like all that takes more time than just turning the camera on and going for it. So i have a killer, a nanny and some killer (pun) surprises. Today is the 26th, Friday the 13th + 13 - a full moon too, should be interesting... Either this will work out time wise or we'll just have a lot of fun and some drunken pyscho footage to laugh at....

Thanks, Brad. I haven't given up just yet. But please, keep trimming. Post anything. We wanna see Brad and Wally! It's the people, not so much the story.

Bill, forgive my earlier failure to wish you a safe return to an undamaged home. I wish the best for Ronn as well.

Well, my motherboard went out on my video production computer so I'm out of business until Monday. I have a new board coming, but it won't help me for this DV Challenge.

Oh well...

Alright well here's a bit of a sneak peek so to say. This was a photo taken on set last night.

Still hacking away...
 

Thanks Meryem, Hugh and Lorinda from Spudville. I really appreciate all the kind words and proding. I'm still up, editing away.

The crew of 2 and 1/2 peeps put so much energy and effort into this film that I don't have the heart to give up now. So, instead, I seem to have taken up smoking Camels again, limiting myself to one chicken pot pie a day and like Meryem, I chug down loads of thick black coffee. I'll keep at it.

Speaking of Zombies, I should be a shoe-in for the part.

PS: Love the sneak peak Travis. Looks like you guys are having a blast! :)

Looks like it's the wall for me!! I'm directing a high school play and I was gonna attempt to squeeze in the dvc but alas the editing computer decided to blow it's mother board!!!! So I'll see u guys in dec! best of luck!

equipment failure
 

Sorry to hear about your troubles, Jim and Jesse. That makes two motherboards and now the hard drive I loaded my crap, I mean, my clips on late last night. What is it with this challenge? Gremlins?

@ Bradley: Thanks!!! We did have a great time making this!

Sorry to hear about the motherboards Jim and Jesse and also to Lorinda and her hard drive :(

Lorinda?
 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (with echo)


Can't you use one of the other 6 hard drives you have?

I think it's the moon.

Unfortunately, I must forfeit the competition. I wrote my script a little too late, I didn't have enough actors and well, other things just didn't lend themselves in my favor.

It was a Zombie flick with a very basic story to it (like Zombie movies really are different from each other), but unfortunately, a bit to grand for a 2 day project. I wrote the script on thursday, past midnight which is technically already Friday!

Anyway, I'm out and very disapointed, but I'm looking forward to the other entries!

Well…..while I’m generally not superstitious I’m kind of afraid to say anything, but yes, I am editing on one of my other hard drives, praying nothing else goes wrong.

I lost the backup to the wedding you and I shot—so far the original is intact on an external drive.

Got some furious behind-the-scenes slasher action going on over here…this one’s gonna be close!

I blew it!

I just checked the forum, and I discovered I only have 1 day till the deadline. I didn't even sign up! I am bummed. Especially considering all of my movies are a bit 'scary'.

I guess that will teach me. I will have to monitor the forums a bit more regularly. Good luck to all!

So it's Saturday night before the deadline, 7:15 PM and I don't even have an idea! But I'm not out yet! I'm rounding up my friends, grabbing the gear and we're gonna get SOMETHING done! I think I need it to be crunch time to even get things done, and it's definitely crunch time!!

OH man... I am sitting here with 4 minutes of edited video.... crap... time to trim the fat...

A full moon. Not just any full moon, but a Perigee moon which means it's even closer to Earth than usual. More lunar influence means more weird electronics failures.

-gb-

I'm Finished
 

I just can't get a YOUTUBE account. What the heck? Any ideas?

Less than 24 hours to go... time to pick up the pace.

Well, it will be the wall for me! Had one good idea but could not pull wardrobe and all together. Got another simple idea and was going to shoot yesterday afternoon and last evening. BUT, guess what, computer problems hit me too. It was my own fault though, I think?!

Had a rehearsal for our upcoming movie at my house yesterday and had 14 people here. During the early part of the day I was working at my computer, copying disks etc. and I did a "restore" at one point while I was wandering around the rehearsal. Not thinking, I walked in and hit the power button on the computer, thinking that it had locked up. It had not and was in the middle of the restore! Duh!

Let me tell you, if you have never done that before------Don't do it!

Lost the ability to use Help and Support (no more restore), Search Functions, and it would not recognize some of the operating system disc so I could repair. Only choice after hours of trying to repair, I was to do a destructive restore.

So after working on it until 9:00 pm last night, I'm up and back at it this morning. Probably have another 5 to 7 hours to go loading programs etc.. I know I have lost some that I will not find again. Lost all but a little footage, that was on other drives. I'm glad I was not in the middle of a project!

Good luck to all and I'll see you next time.

Mike

Lorinda had trouble last time too! If nothing else, you can send it to me or someone else and we can load it up for you.

Good luck Hugh.

Mike

On the wal...
 

I'm on the wall this time. Nothing came together - time, people, script. It just wasn'y meant to be... [wipes tear from eye]

I thought I'd be able to pull something together today, but no luck...

:-(

Kevin

Finally
 

After signing up for the last two and not getting anything done, I've finally managed to get one done. Uploaded and ready to go. I look forward to seeing the others.

Well that was a close one. I managed to stay off the wall of shame again ... that is if Dylan gets my email.

If it hadn't been for the interest of my principle actress, I wouldn't have gotten my act together this time.

I don't know if anyone will be scared by my entry, but I (once again) learned a lot by improvising it together. Definitely a challenge.

Thanks Dylan.

I hope everyone else has survived their myriad horrors, both fictional and real.

Almost done! Just have to add in some music, render and upload.

Uploaded to YouTube and sent my links about 11:30 a.m.

I just uploaded and emailed. Hopefully I did it right, I even found another DVC #10 entry on youtube all ready... :-)

Just uploaded and sent an email to ya Dylan!

I stuck a fork in mine…it’s done.

Uploaded and emailed, too, with several hours to spare. Guess I worried for nothing. :[