To Magda Cruz Park

Four of us made this little nine minute short during a span of ninety minutes on a property in Georgetown, Ontario. This video was made for Cameron Merrick-Braund's grade twelve film class as his final project for the year.

Everything (pre-production, production, and post-production) was literally done in about nine days time and everything was extremely rushed. The story was conceived on day one, and a location was found by day three, thanks to our aunt, Carmen. A loose script was completed the night before shooting, where we took our cheap ass camcorder from Toronto to Georgetown with the intend of filming during twilight. Fake blood was made from lots of red food colouring, corn syrup, and (good ol' reliable) Nesquik chocolate sauce (I heard powder works, too).

Some heavy ass rains interrupted most of our time there (thanks a lot, Mother Nature), so basically everything after the "Mr. Foe" encounter became ab libbed for the sake of battery life and natural lighting. All guns used are Airsoft guns.

Post-production was started immediately and literally worked on (I cannot stress this enough) for four and a half days straight as we obsessed over getting all the little sounds right/synced. Using Windows Movie Maker was not fun and I feel pity for those who have to use it. Only allowing us to tac on one layer of sound at a time was extremely frustrating. It basically meant we had to make sure everything on one particular `wave of sound` was perfect before publishing the file, opening it again in a new project, and adding another wave of sound on top of it. About (eight or nine) waves were put in.

And speaking of sounds, you Left 4 Dead players will notice 99% of the sounds and music used in this video, since we used their sound files. So, let me make this clear. THE SOUNDS BELONG TO VALVE and we do give them credit in the credits. We are in no way claiming their sound effects or music to be ours. The only sounds we personally made were shouts and zombie noises (most of the latter buried in the mix during the attack). Cameron and I would have loved to do our own music, but the deadline was not going to allow us to.

Needless to say, the quality you will be seeing is going to be very poor compared to how it really turned out, but it should still be enjoyable.

Cameron Merrick-Braund
Dominic Braund
Richard Siekris
Daniel Siekris

Enjoy the video everyone, we hope you like it.

- Daniel Siekris

EDITOR'S NOTE: Cam did get a perfect (or something) on this video. Congrats!

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[ProfessorPathogen]

That was pretty good, nice job leaving it open for a sequel too

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@ProfessorPathogen Thanks a lot; we're going to make another video eventually when we are all free again, but I doubt a sequel for this will be made... never know though.

[kymann96]

i like the audio at the end very creative

[TimsTunes]

great work Cam.

Blood - Gore !

Slasher films generally aren't my fave, but you guys did an excellent job. I enjoyed the tension created by your audio track as well. Strings and snares forever.

Keep on creating.

kindest regards,

T as in Terror

[onckabal66]

Wicked Job guys!

[Musty49]

yeaaaaa RICKYYYY

"OK BOYZ"

[deenmbp]

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