A little gift!

You know you got friends who know you when they give you this painting on your 30th birthday!

Where the idea Infestation came from.

The laundry room in my apartment building is located in the basement, so everytime  I went down to do the laundry my mind went into some kind of creative overdrive. The darkness, the long hallways and pipes and plumbing in the ceiling was like stepping into a horror movie set.

The pipes always reminded me of the Nostromos interior, so I really felt I had to do something with this enviroment. Hence Infestation!

Making slime!

We all know xenomorph slime alot. Here is a setup with a plastic sheet in front of a black backdrop and a tube of aloe Vera gel.

It worked pretty good, it is not super obvious in the final film, but it's a small detail. Everything is in the details!

 

Playing dead

Martin Svensson did a good job playing dead. We used standard theater blood, it is very thick and became an headache to clean up from the basement floor.

Bad greenscreen

The window in the kitchen needed to be blocked from daylight, because we didn't want to shoot the kitchen scenes in the night.

I tried greenscreen paper inbetween the glass, but I realized it would make alot more sense just using black paper instead, cutting down some of the postproduction time.

There was also alot of spill in the entire room. But yeah, that greenscreen is so perfectly lit it would probably be a dream to key out.

Little DIY flashbox

There is no scary movie without flashing, broken flickering lights, right?

With a 3 Watt Powerled, battery pack and a trinket arduino controller, I could get those long halls and dark corners flash and light up randomized.

Just love the tape, reminds me of building a noise maker in Alien Isolation game.

 

Intro to "Infestation"

I realized I got way too little posts about moviemaking on this blog, it's been all about DJ and music.

So here is a little behind the scenes from December 2014 when I shot the first scene on my short Infestation, which is now online.

They had a meeting just behind the door to the right. A lady unknowingly stepping right out in the scene, with scary moonlight and flashing lights. She was cool though, once I explained what I was doing.