Our Friend, The Ergo Zombie (Final Video)

Montserrat College of Art and StudioXL Present

- Our Friend, The Ergo Zombie - 

CREDITS:

Student: Meghan Higgins

Zombie: Chris Klepadlo

Announcer: Matthew Shea

Director: Dino Rowan

Co-Director: Sarah Downie

 Sound Editing: Brian White

Video Editing: Dino Rowan

Concept: Shelby Hamel

Script: Meghan Higgins

Storyboard: Sarah Downie, Brian White

Make-Up: Meghan Higgins, Shelby Hamel

Additional Stunts: Tess Roever, Shelby Hamel, Brian White

Dinosaur Wrangler:  Sarah Downie, Meghan Higgins

Additional Help:  Francois DeCosterd

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All Music By

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Post-Crit, To Do List for Final Presentation

Meghan:
Thursday:
End Card
"winner" pose

Dino: 
Zoom in (not out) on Animation room establishing shot
Cut second door close
Cut a few shots from stair scene
bring up music levels
extend first credit card
Replace official Montserrat Logo
Music Credit
Redo text on title
Fix "exercise" card spelling

Our Friend, The Ergo Zombie (Final Video, v1)

Final video, Version 1.

Title Screen

Ending Credits

To-Do 4/27-4/28

Meghan/Sarah finish titles/cards tonight

Brian work on audio tonight

hand back drive to Dino tonight

Dino works on video tomorrow

All meet up at 8pm tomorrow for Final Assembly

Scene 3 Rough Cut

Here's the rough cut from Scene 3, half-resolution with the raw audio from camera.

There are a few continuity issues with the staircase that I need to iron out tomorrow. For now, my eyes hurt. 

Finished version will be color corrected, more closely trimmed, with music, announcer's recordings, and tailored audio.

You can also view everything in the playlist I made for the full video.

- Dino

To-Do List: Monday 4/27

To-Do List for In Class on Monday, 4/27

Please meet in the Animation Lab!

Dino

Polish Video/Finish Editing

Catch up with group

Brian, Chris

Sound Editing

Announcer Audio

Music

Sync Sound from Mic

Chris: Record any extra sound effects (typing??)

Meghan

Illustrated Scene Titles "POSTURE, EXERCISE" etc

Illustrated Title/Poster "ERGO ZOMBIE(S)?" (we need to finalize a title)

- make some concept sketches tomorrow, maybe reference silly zombie movie posters

- go over with group, maybe collaborate with Sarah after?

Sarah:

Credits , do in InDesign or Photoshop, use Futura font

- will be exported as a TIF/image to drop into Premiere for video slides, --- indicates a new slide

SLIDE ONE:

Student: Meghan Higgins

Zombie: Chris Klepadlo

Announcer: Matthew Shea

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SLIDE TWO:

Director: Dino Rowan

Co-Director: Sarah Downie

Sound Editing: Brian White

Video Editing: Dino Rowan

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SLIDE THREE:

Concept: Shelby Hamel

Script: Meghan Higgins

Storyboard: Sarah Downie

Brian White

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SLIDE FOUR:

Make-Up: Meghan Higgins

Shelby Hamel

Stunts: Tess Roever

Shelby Hamel

Dinosaur Wrangler: Sarah Downie
Meghan Higgins

Additional Help: Francois DeCosterd

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Scene 2 Rough Cut

Here's the rough cut from Scene 2, half-resolution with the raw audio from camera.

Finished version will be color corrected, more closely trimmed, with music, announcer's recordings, and audio from the external mic.

Scene 3 Rough Cut to come tomorrow.

- Dino

Scene 1 Rough Cut

Assembling the Rough Cuts this weekend. 

Here's the rough cut of Scene 1 I did today (Friday), half-resolution with the raw audio from camera:

As I was editing, I noticed that we misplaced about half the footage that we shot from Scene 1, mostly extra angles, but I was able to work around it.

Finished version will be color corrected, more closely trimmed, with music, announcer's recordings, and audio from the external mic.

I will assemble Scene 2 tomorrow (Saturday), and possible some of Scene 3. Everything is on track to have the rough cuts finished for Sunday evening.

- Dino

Agenda for Today

Finished filming the last scene to the Ergo Zombie Video
Editing footage through premiere editing software

Stairwell Pictures

Here are pictures for filming the stairwell today

4/13/15_ Film Agenda for today

Film Progress

Finished shooting the end of scene 4 (Stairwell chase scene)

What still need to be filmed:
Beginning of Scene 4 (Student Lodge)
The Finale (? still being planned)
Scene 2 (Animation lab)
Scene 3 (Wood shop/ 3-D classroom)


Tomorrow
Filming for Scene 3
Location: 301 Building (Wood shop)
Meet time: 9:30 pm

Sarah_Storyboard for Scene 4

Camera angles and shot for the film

Sarah_Storyboard Scene 3

Zombie Make Up

Chris in Zombie Form

5/8/15_ Agenda

Wednesday (5/8/15)
Finished Part 1/ Scene 1 of Ergo Zombie Film
Location- Bank Building/ Writing Center lodge

Sunday-
Editing/ putting together scene 1 footage in premiere

Monday-
Film scene 2
Location- Hardie/ Animation Lab

Sarah_Storyboard Scene 2

New Rode Video Mic is here. I will bring it to class in the am!

Story boards look great... very easy to see and understand what is going on.

Sarah_Storyboards scene 1

Storyboard sample

Trailer

So in light of mondays setbacks, Dino and Brian have both put together a trailer for our finished video, which will be done sometime next week.

heres a link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0cCx_OBrw

Deadline unease

So with schedule juggling becoming harder than usual the past week, what with other classes, artrageous and other personal situations, setting up locations and shooting has been harder than we thought to pull off with all of us present

we've been doing our best but either one of us isnt available because of a class, or a class and other people need the space we need to shoot at. its just one of those things

fortunately we should be able to get everything shot and recorded. however, Dino and Brian have both gone over the level of detail and editing we'd like to do with this video to make it the best we can make it. Unfortunately, to get that level of completion we might need until next monday or wednesday to get there. There should be a rough cut available to show, but nothing polished for this wednesday

heres hoping everyone can understand and allow us the time to make this project as great as it can be.

OFFICIAL SPELLING OF ERGOPALOOZA

ERGOPALOOZA

Filming from 3/24/15

We shot both outside scenes yesterday with our actors Shelby and tess. shelby had less makeup to do since this was supposed to be the transitionary period from mostly zombie to less zombie because she's getting better

some master craftsmanship by Dino, for our apple fishing pole. Brian drove the car for each scene and i assisted wherever assisting was needed

having Shelby do make up on a windy, cold beach was our best idea yet.

Normal vs Zombie

Voice acting: complete

So earlier today Dino helped guide Matt through voice acting for the part of the announcer. Both did an excellent job and with multiple takes of each line to choose from that part of the project is all recorded and ready to be put together.

Here is the finalized logo design. 

EXTRA EXTRA: READ ALL ABOUT IT

Brian and I finished the storyboard! Will give to Blyth tomorrow to scan and digitize. We also read through the script while I followed the finished storyboard, and fixed any errors or bumps in the script. Will also scan/tweak that tomorrow.

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Tomorrow (Monday) I'm hoping to start recording lines with Matt, our announcer. And also in-class, plan Tuesday's shooting schedule after we run through the storyboard and tweak it with Francois.

Makeup Tests

I'm having a lot of fun with this makeup stuff. Let me know if you have any suggestions. We're going to have to do a camera test to see what I need to make darker and what I need to exaggerate. 

Shelby

Official logo

(Will make it more sharper and defined but is the gist of the logo design. Newer version will be available shortly )

Makeup Stage 1

Stage 1 Zombie Makeup:

I have almost all of this makeup, and the small amount that I didn't have is arriving on the 20th. The tutorial I watched was really simple and it's something you can easily lighten to make stage 2. I will post the beginning test without the bite tonight and then when I get the rest on the 20th I'll do another test. I can do a lighter test for the second stage also, although I think I will leave the little bite.

Shelby

Been working on the Story board , almost finished scene 2, going to aim to finish this one and start the next scene.

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3/17/15 Progress Update

- Last night (3/16) Meghan looked over the notes and rewrote the script. After that happened, I went through and marked it up/made some more comments. 
- After the final revision tomorrow in-class, we should be ideally good to go to start getting ready for filming etc.

- Also last night, our Announcer, Matt, recorded and sent in some sample readings from the script. He did three takes each for several lines, which is great. I think he nailed the feel that we want, just need to do a little tweaking when we sit down and finalize stuff in the sound studio. You can listen to them here.

- Brian right now is working on the storyboard. 

- For the ending, we're still debating on if it should end with the chase scene starting off on bike and ending in-car, or just jumping right to car. I think this is really all going to come into play when we're editing it, so I think it would be best to just record the two separate endings and figure out what works best for time

IN CLASS TOMORROW
- I would like to go through the script to mark each time we mention/need a prop, costume, materials, sound/special effects, and any extra supplies we may need
- From that- we should brainstorm how to source these materials

- From the script and partial storyboard, start to think of the shot list/angles and the logistics of shooting [what camera(s), tripods/shoulder mount, maybe a light kit?] 
- Also iron out locations

- After all this brainstorming is done, rework/go over the production schedule and figure out what our priorities are

- then POOF magically a video appears

Zombie Inspiration