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I have gotten really positive responses on my fan film on YouTube. Makes me humble and happy!

Since the reception has been so good, I have been playing with the idea to make a sequel with a proper ending. 

I'm not satisfied how I ended the shortfilm but I couldn't come up with a proper closure without killing our lead actress. Didn't want to do that. 

But by setting up story the way I did, there is a opportunity to take it to the next level and make a proper satisfiyng ending.

I won't promise anything, but I am pretty inspired right now. In the same fashion I was before making Infestation, so that is promising :) 

 

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.