Revelation: A Zombie Short Film

Back in the Summer of 2009 I was looking through my email and found a communication from Wright State cautioning students that there was going to be an independent film shot on campus. They went on to explain that we shouldn’t be alarmed if we saw folks dressed as zombies. So I did a little digging, and with help from Casey who had a friend that knew the director Will Graver, we found out that even though the Dayton Daily News was reporting that the set was closed; if you showed up early enough and didn’t mind having the clothes that you were wearing ruined by fake blood, it was possible you could be a “walk on zombie”. I was immediately stoked! 

We showed up at the crack of dawn outside of the student union, Casey dressed as a nurse in scrubs, and myself decked out in military fatigues (from my airsoft gear). There was a total of about 30 or so people who showed up for the event. The cast came out, and we started getting makeup applied. It was really cool, they had a couple of makeup artists powdering our faces ashen grey, and drawing veins and dark rings under our eyes. Then the great “blooding up” happened. We were taken out into the green space next to BART (the big ass red thing, as the students know it) and they dipped their hands into mason jars full of fake blood, then flung us with it. I got splattered in my face and chest with the stuff (it almost got in my eye, but the effect was pretty cool). 

Then they took us out into the quad and had us wander around as zombies ( the slow type, not the 28 Days Later super-fast variety). We had a bunch of shots taken of us wandering around the quad as Will and his crew ran wandered with their cameras. At one point a kid shoulder checked me a little harder than I really expected, and went down pretty hard, but it probably made for a good shot. 

Then Will got up on the top floor of Allyn hall, and had us walk around some more; he came down to the lobby and had us make the” impending doom ” approach on the glass doors, then start pounding on them. The whole time the cast was watching us and getting a big kick out of the spectacle. 

After that shot, the two main actors Travis Horseman & Amanda Howell walked up for a quick photo opportunity. The shot that made it on the front of the article @ the Dayton Daily had me in the background : ) 

Revelation Zombie

Here is the trailer for the soon to be released film Revelation 

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