The Inevitable Decomposition of Zombie Man (2010)

About the Film:

This stand-alone short is the third film in the "I Am Zombie Man" series (links to the other two films below). After enjoying modest success on the celebrity zombie circuit, the most famous zombie in the world (self-proclaimed) finds himself broke, bemoaning the human race and avoiding his tax payments.

About the Production:

Shot in four hours, on the only clear day during a harsh winter (December 28th 2009), I was originally intending to shoot this in December 2007 - but such is life, we never found the time for it until two years later.

The budget was entirely minimal, the only money that was spent being on a few props, so aside from that it was essentially made for nothing, in spare time, using my own equipment.

Camera: Panasonic DVX100B
NLE System: Sony Vegas & Magic Bullet

The soundtrack was created by Brian Wright & Gary Ugarek, who made the indie zombie flicks Deadlands: The Rising, and Deadlands 2: Trapped.

Links:

Out-Takes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKjtb88XCo

I Am Zombie Man (2006):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31-vW9utQaQ

I Am Zombie Man 2 (2007)
Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfn4nfj-0t0
Part Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYbUushTtQM
Part Three:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfH9BVwe5QM

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• deadshed
• productions
• indie
• film
• horror
• dead
• shed
• short
• independent
• british
• UK
• zombie
• man
• inevitable
• decomposition
• undead
• romero
• mockumentary
• comedy
• spoof
• dawn
• living

[CircleofShit]

Hi what effects did you use to get that picture?

[ZombieWagon]

@CircleofShit - How do you mean picture? The look of the film? If so, shot with 2.35:1 aspect ratio in mind, edited in Sony Vegas (where it was cropped to 2.35:1), and then used the Magic Bullet plug-in to colour it (mostly desaturation of colours, a touch of white diffusion, and a kind of earthy tone wash of colour over the image).

[CircleofShit]

@ZombieWagon so you have 32 bit Vegas then? Yeh your video has this cool grainy, old school film 8mm look to it, just curious as to how you made it look like that man. I use Vegas too and have a DVX100b PAL, i'm from UK too. Shitty Cambridge.

[ZombieWagon]

@CircleofShit - Aye, I've got a DVX100B as well, so part of it is the SD 'look' (I don't see the point in HD for pro-sumer indie filmmaking, to be honest). I prefer a bit of grain as HD never looks 'real' to me, heck, my eyesight's certainly not in HD, haha.

Magic Bullet also has something called "MisFire" which allows you to put on various grain, gate weave and flicker effects etc, and with the titles I used a background texture from a Video Co-Pilot resource called "Riot Gear".

[CircleofShit]

@ZombieWagon Completely agree with the HD thing. Ddi you buy magic bullet or did you 'aquire it'? I've been using New Blue Fx (cheap knock off lol). I was wondering whether you could use Vegas 32 bit on a 64 bit pc?

[ZombieWagon]

@CircleofShit - I think with 64bit computers you have to use 64bit software, but I'm not entirely sure, I think some have the ability to run 32bit software in a '32bit mode' ... but I'm really not sure, it's all way over my head.

[LouCipherr]

An excellent conclusion to the Zombie Man Trilogy. Great work. Visually, I think this is the best ZM has ever looked (not ZM himself, but the video.. ZM seems to be in pretty bad shape... lol).

[FizzyMcPhysics]

Wow! Your production standards have shot up! Some really good shots there. Nice and tight pace. And excellently inventive profanities.

[DjfunkmasterG]

The RETURN of ZOMBIE MAN... YES!