The Undead Essay

The Undead

The movie the Undead was created in 2003 by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig. They wanted to make a movie of the unexpected and something that would ‘wow’ the audience.

In my personal opinion I believe that some of the challenges in which they came across and faced during the pre-production stage I their strict budget. Before they even started the creators new that ‘the Undead’ was going to be produced on a very limited and tight budget. Michael and peter had to borrow equipment and set products. During the grocery store scene they had to buy products that the audience would normally see in a general grocery store. This specific set alone set back the producers $700. After this set we completed the producers had to result in stealing things and borrowing piping equipment for other sets.

The director and producer of this movie were also struggling in the pre-production stage with a catering situation where to cater for the cast members was unavailable as they didn’t have the money to pay for catering. They contacted the catering company to discuss a solution for their tight money budget and to see what could be done about it.

During the production process I believe that a number of situations went wrong. Make up for the zombies was being completed by 3 people and this was a major struggle because make up would normally take up to 1 hour and 30 minutes but for the movie they were forced to minimise this time dramatically to only 30 minutes per cast member.

The casting crew were just normal day people who were more than happy to act in a low budget film. The directors had trouble with finding the proper equipment to use in certain scenes. The crew only had a certain amount of takes available to them so they had to limit the amount of mistakes and once they ran out of takes the editors would have to make do with whatever footage that they have collected throughout the time of filming.

In my opinion I believe that overall the trouble that they came across and time limit which they pushed the boundaries, the production stage was successful and they achieved a great end result that they were hoping for.

In my opinion the effects were amazing especially the scene where the woman zombie went flying through a plane windscreen. During the production stage they had shot this scene in three different stages. Stage one involved the filming of a normal glass window being broken with a hammer. Stage two involved the filming of the zombie leaping through an empty window and stage three was the end result where the editor made it look like the zombie was leaping into the windscreen and smashed it and as a result went through the plane windscreen. This refers to the capability and effect which an editor is available to.

This was my opinion on the making of 'The Undead'.