SAMURAI DEAD: a short zombie film

[Jason Reed]

Check out our new zombie webseries: "SAMURAI DEAD"

SAMURAI DEAD episode 1 - Zombie Apocalypse Short Film - YouTube

We shot everything with a Canon Rebel T4i + 18-135mm STM lens, a four-man crew, and no budget. Please let us know what you think.

If you enjoyed it, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. We’ll be releasing the next episode next month!

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Thanks!

[Kevin Lewis]

Wow great job! give us the details, what program did you use for grading also was this shot 24p. this goes to show that its not just the camera and lens but the person behind it. Cant wait to see the next part1

[Jason Reed]

Originally Posted by Kevin Lewis

Wow great job! give us the details, what program did you use for grading also was this shot 24p. this goes to show that its not just the camera and lens but the person behind it. Cant wait to see the next part1

Glad you enjoyed it! We did all of the color grading in After Effects. Most of the work entailed desaturating the colors to give us a more "dead, depressing, and desolate" look. If we would've shot it over again, we definitely would've loaded our Canon T4i with a neutral color profile (i.e. cinestyle) so we would've had flatter colors to begin with and more latitude in post. We also would've used ND filters to give us more DOF. We were really bummed that everything turned out so focused. haha. Oh well -- live and learn. Hopefully, we'll do a better in episode #2!

Thanks so much for responding! Happy Halloween!

PS: We shot and rendered at 23.976.

[Derrick Jones]

Man that was great! Loved the shots and the Intensity of it. even though it was only 5 min very enjoyable man! Great Job im subscribing to your youtube page right now!

[Jason Reed]

Originally Posted by Derrick Jones

Man that was great! Loved the shots and the Intensity of it. even though it was only 5 min very enjoyable man! Great Job im subscribing to your youtube page right now!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for subscribing -- really appreciate it! Hope we don't disappoint in our next episode. ;)