Ye Arkham Maides Production

The production is ready for shooting.  I've mapped out the sites at both locations.  The meadows are nice with sloping hills which lead to a wall of trees.  I'll use Establishing shots I've also gotten response from several crew interns and pas.  I'm waiting to hear from the several actors, to confirm dates.  Costumes also need to be distressed, but this shouldn't take long.

I met with Marie yesterday to do a few mockups of the hag.  We also went over the makeup for the rash, -which I should have photographed, as well as the bruised skin.  Still need to get a smooth full latex appliance for the facial swelling.

Ye Arkham Maides: Costumes

These textures lend themselves to underexposure, which I want to use in the cinematography.  Doesn't have the flow of, say a ruffle dress, like in the period dramas of the forties, but it has it's own drama.  We're going to use the blue dress as a petticoat, if rather than this, if it ever gets here.  Styling is going to be a challenge.  Made an adjustable bustle pad to hold up the skirt, just in case it needs adjusting.  It'd b nice if someone had a ruffle dress,  would be nice in the opening sequences..

Zombie Honeybees & Decapitating Flies

Much talk lately of colony collapse disorder, when worker bees suddenly leave the bee hive.  Although unexplained, a variety of issues maybe causing the phenomenon. Apocephalus borealis, a parasitic fly which has already been attributed to a symptom in which the bees wander around aimlessly before eventually dying, as well as planting it's larvae in the bees' head, causing the heads to pop off after the larvae develops may be responsible for colony collapse from California to South Dakota.

Ye Arkham Maides; forest textures

Got what looks like an excellent choice for a DP and Sound Recordist.  And with the costume designer, we've started putting together a collage for the vision.  Last night I had a dream of somone in a room full of boxes, and it reminded me of a development in the story.  

Low angles work well in the forest.

Richard Edward Dennet's treatise on the Bavili people (1906 ed.) describes Nzambi as the personal essence of the Bakici baci. Kici is descirbed as the mysterious inherent quality in things that causes the Bavili peoples to fear and respect. 

Zombie Walk

Zombie walk 2011

The Plague of the Zombies