Peter, thanks for your comments. I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, but I've been a bit busy lately... thats a good thing I guess. :)
The settings I used on the camera were pretty straight forward. I started with the Cine2 gama, and Cine 2 color matrix. Everything else was left pretty flat, notable changes were decreasing set up and sharpness a touch. I also pulled down the RB Matrix, and the GB Matrix quite a bit down near -12 each.
I didn't have any budget for lights so most everything was shot daylight with white bounce cards. On occasion for night shots I did have a China Ball with a 200watt bulb on a dimmer, and two garage worklights from Wal-Mart. Those usually ended up gelled blue to light up the background.
Most interiors I shot using existing florescent light for top light, with lots of gain to introduce grain to the picture, and with the intentions to push it toward blue in editing.
The sign was shot with the camera, if you notice we took a still shot of the sign, and added the numbers counting down with after effects and also the slight push.
I agree with you about the trailer, it wasn't completely my choice, its a zombie film and the other producers were hesitant to introduce that aspect of the story to prevent anti-zombie types from immediately dismissing the film. I think it makes the trailer a little bit mish-moshy myself... you can't really tell what is going on.
Thanks for the note on the gunshots too... there actually is a foley sfx in there already, maybe we will just add more "oomph" to it.
-Clayton Moore
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