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Light fare today, nothing Earth shattering. I finished this last week, but completely forgot about it, so I’m just sticking it up here now.

A few words about this. There’s really no plot to this whole thing. It’s something of an extended commercial, but there’s no connection between product/service and message aside from the lines awkwardly tacked on at the end—so I hesitate to call it even that. It was just a fun project that we had an excuse to do.

Co-director Mike Lombardo of Reel Splatter Productions asked if I’d help out with the technical stuff like camera and lighting so he could focus on making cool gore FX. It worked out pretty well. As a matter of fact, it’s not an exaggeration to say that this was the best indie film project I’ve ever been on. Not just the shoot; the whole thing went well. I kept waiting for the usual crap to go wrong: creative differences, no one showing up to be zombies, accidents on the way to the locations. But it never came. It was smooth sailing from the word go.

And look at that extensive cast list; we had a horde. A horde of zombies. I’ve never worked with a group of people this large before, either. All things considered, it just couldn’t have gone any better. I finally got to use the camera I bought a few months back, Mike got to do more blood and guts, and everything just clicked.

I think I used all my indie film karma on this one—relatively unimportant—piece. The rest of my career will now be a comedy of errors.

Naturally YouTube’s compression sucks like the founder of the FBI; the original looks immeasurably better. Enjoy anyway.

-Ted