Production Day Two

Shooting took place at a house set for sale, a good place for filming if you would like to look into that in your area. This house poses as Capitan Evil's lair, his dungeon and the bathroom is dressed as the Super Hero's research lair. This house is great for filming because of the atmosphere. However, there was no air conditioning, not much lighting and the house was only open for shooting at night. On the whole I am thankful we had this house for shooting. It covered a lot of bases for location shots and gave us free use of the entire set for fighting and screaming. These things are hard to do in public places because authorities get involved. :) Here is a scene from the day two shoot, set in Capitan Evil's dungeon. Supper Bakka and Amazing Hat Man do thier best to save Living Dead Girl and take her from the dungeon. They realize, though they are super heroes, neither possesses even a normal strength to lift the tiny super out of the dungeon. They must now come up with another idea.

Evil Thwarting Invaders Production Day

Friday is Day One on the production schedule. Filming went great. Two hours at the park yielded about thirty minutes worth of usable footage, by Hollywood terms this is fabulous. Typically Hollywood budgets call for a 6:1 ratio of footage to movie time. Production was fast and productive. Our dailies came out very well and I am looking forward to the future filming days. Here is a taste of what we had today. This is Bakka playing her guitar, the first time we see her in the film.

Movie Auditions

The new Z movie ended preproduction today. We have hired five new actors to grace our screen with their talent. The new Z employees are Christina R. Graham, Clifton Eade, Brandon Adkins, Bakka Moore, Amean Barbarian, and JoAnn Lea. Crew for this film include Jaime Jaramillo, boom operator, and Judy Greenwood, location manager. Sarazann will be doing most everything else. Z will hire a sound editor and musicians for the soundtrack in post production. Filming is to commence this Friday for the outdoor scenes.

Z Movie!

Z in the middle began preproduction for our first film, "Evil Thwarting Invaders". A campy action movie set in a world where everyone is super, super powered, that is. These super upgraded people go on a quest to recover a kidnapped teammate from the evil Capitan Evil, graduate of the Evil Naval Academy. This is an improvised script shot with a cannon power shot. The film quality is not the best but Z has to start somewhere. This is an exciting new project that Z will throw into full production, creating DVD's and blogger and you tube posts. As with all Z products, 5% of DVD sales profit will go to a local Texas charity.

Studio Set Up

Z in the Middle had the goal of acquiring a portable internet studio this year. I am pleased to report we have wireless broadband with a new laptop and plenty of new software. We also have video blog software and web cam set up. The Z laptop will now be the portal for all Z online communications and posts.
Weekly operation description posts will commence October 1, 2007.