sorry to be boring!

[lowtek]

i have recently decided to scrap my idea for a gangster movie in favour of a zombie movie i know that this is very typical of amature film makers but it will be my first film so what the hell

i want to have some zombies coming up out of the ground and short of building a very large rig i can see no other way of doing so any suggestions?

also i want to have some broken and missing limbs is there any way that this could be done on a low/no budget

now you probably think i'm completely mad for trying such a thing for a first movie but i think it will be fun

any other tips would be greatly appreciated
P.s how the hell do you apply correct spelling through the tool to the left of the new topic box i know that sounds silly but i couldn't do it

thanks any way!

[Tard]

Typical, yes. But it doesn't have to be a cliche rip-off. I'd suggest watching movies like 'Dellamorte Dellamore' & 'Shatter Dead' & 'Gore Whore' (the last two suggestions are low-budget zombie films also, but damn inventive).

i want to have some zombies coming up out of the ground and short of building a very large rig i can see no other way of doing so any suggestions?

I wouldn't suggest doing anything seen in a Romero flick, but anyways... if a lawn/dirt rig isn't something you'd want to create (for the zombies 'rise from the dead'), perhaps extreme close-ups edited in the right way: hand groping-up thru bottom of a tray of lawn; zombie face closeup with dirt crumbling off, falling away, doing a cliche "GRAAARRGG.."; actor pulls self from shallow ditch covered only by lightweight dirt/mulch mix & lawn sheet, etc...

For broken bones & missing appendages; get to know some local amputees & see if they'd like to try an acting gig. A quick bloody stumpcap put on an amputees limb will look a HELL of a lot better than an actor trying to hide an arm behind his back.

The "Check Spelling" box doesn't work. It'll give you proper variations of what it thinks you're trying to spell, but you'll have to manually change the spelling. That "Apply Changes" button doesn't do a thing.

[thelaughingduck2001]

Did a hole in the ground big enough to fit your actor in-Then, make sure his face is totally uncovered.

Have him sit up/crawl out of it, and, like suggested, with good quick edits between different zombies crawling out (of the same hole?) it should look fine.

That's how I'd try it anyways.

[cash]

how does a zombie get out of his coffin?, there you go, write that into your script,

[Tard]

That's suspension of disbelief. Hell, even in NOTLD's era (mid-1960's), coffins were regularly sealed airtight in steel & concrete vaults before covering with dirt. So few people know about actual burial practices, it doesn't need to be accurate. Cheap pine boxes under a half-meter of loose soil works just fine for a 'zombie-flick'.

Unless you'd like to shoot a zombie film about a body that comes back to life underground in a black box and can't figure-out a way to escape the coffin (that sounds like a fun-filled flick!). [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[The Cavity]

Does anybody wonder how the hell they escape in the first place? I mean, they're buried under six feet of cold, hard dirt - in a wooden box, no less. Not much in the way of leverage, especially for decomposed bodies.

Maybe you can address this idea in your film.

[windowslaws]

maybe he could have an elevator installed and it could be a sitcom about his relationship with the contractors who are making the elevator.

kind of like a mis-matched buddy movie. the zombie wants to excape and kill them, the contractors just want to get paid.


you can have that idea for free my friend

[Tard]

Or go in a totally different Living-Dead direction.

Just as an example; SHATTER-DEAD had the rotting corpses coming back & walking around dazed & confused, begging for change on streetcorners like jobless slackers. Not as flesheating shambling mobs, but a new lower-class of citizen who were creating new social-structures & religions by rising from the grave.

[lowtek]

thanks that has given me some stuff to think about

[sn-films]

If you can scrape together a couple bucks, these guys have some fun props...

http://www.nightmarefactory.com/bodies.html

They offer some good stuff for under $20.