'Decay' - £2,000 indie feature getting publicity (shot with 5d mk2/7d/d800)
'Decay' - filmed mostly on a Canon 5d Mk2 and 7d (few shots with D800) all borrowed cameras. Total budget around £2,000 mark....
From Yahoo! UK:
"British physicists have released a zombie film made secretly in the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.
The 80-minute film, Decay, was shot in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a 27km tunnel 100 metres beneath the Swiss-French border at Geneva where the Higgs boson or "God particle" was recently discovered.
The £2,000 movie follows a small group of students, played by physicists, after a disastrous malfunction in the LHC tunnel.
As they try to escape from the underground maintenance tunnels, they are hunted by zombies that have been created from exposure to the Higgs boson - a sub-atomic particle thought to be responsible for giving other particles mass.
Writer and director Luke Thompson, a Manchester University PhD student, originally conceived the idea in February 2010, after joking that the tunnels under the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) would be ideal for a zombie film.
The research centre, the home of the LHC, is the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
For the movie, the cast and crew of 20 built a camera shoulder-mount from copper pipes, made fake blood from golden syrup, and scavenged props from rubbish bins.
It was shot on borrowed digital SLRs as well as consumer cameras similar to those used to film parts of movies such as Iron Man 2 and Black Swan. Editing and digital effects took place on a desktop computer.
The film is tipped to become a nerd/cult success with appeal to both a science-savvy audience and zombie enthusiasts. Hundreds turned up to the Manchester premiere last month and the movie has had 57,815 hits on YouTube so far.
Cern reportedly hasn't officially endorsed the film which was only shot in areas accessible to all researchers at the facility.
The film is available to stream or download free online at www.decayfilm.com ."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NwLUPZWZc
'Decay' - filmed mostly on a Canon 5d Mk2 and 7d (few shots with D800) all borrowed cameras. Total budget around £2,000 mark....
From Yahoo! UK:
"British physicists have released a zombie film made secretly in the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.
The 80-minute film, Decay, was shot in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a 27km tunnel 100 metres beneath the Swiss-French border at Geneva where the Higgs boson or "God particle" was recently discovered.
The £2,000 movie follows a small group of students, played by physicists, after a disastrous malfunction in the LHC tunnel.
As they try to escape from the underground maintenance tunnels, they are hunted by zombies that have been created from exposure to the Higgs boson - a sub-atomic particle thought to be responsible for giving other particles mass.
Writer and director Luke Thompson, a Manchester University PhD student, originally conceived the idea in February 2010, after joking that the tunnels under the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) would be ideal for a zombie film.
The research centre, the home of the LHC, is the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
For the movie, the cast and crew of 20 built a camera shoulder-mount from copper pipes, made fake blood from golden syrup, and scavenged props from rubbish bins.
It was shot on borrowed digital SLRs as well as consumer cameras similar to those used to film parts of movies such as Iron Man 2 and Black Swan. Editing and digital effects took place on a desktop computer.
The film is tipped to become a nerd/cult success with appeal to both a science-savvy audience and zombie enthusiasts. Hundreds turned up to the Manchester premiere last month and the movie has had 57,815 hits on YouTube so far.
Cern reportedly hasn't officially endorsed the film which was only shot in areas accessible to all researchers at the facility.
The film is available to stream or download free online at www.decayfilm.com ."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NwLUPZWZc
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