Well....

As an indie horror filmmaker as a hobbie, I wouldn't mind seeing my first film on HD-DVD, but it wouldn't be worth it as it was filmed in SD. Now my second film I am working on would definitely look nice on HD-DVD.

I know the studio currently releasing my first Film, Deadlands: The Rising, is letting me do a new remastered version. I have been messing around with the film lately in the editor fixing some color issues and decided to re-color correct the entire film and give it a new look, I even dropped 10 minutes of extra footage back into the movie.

DjfunkmasterG... how about revealing the "big spring announcement for HD-DVD" that you spoke of about 15 minutes ago on Page 1 of THIS THREAD. Was curious as you haven't replied to my request at the bottom of that page.

-LH (the Loverboy)

Gary Ugarek? Is that you?

Seriously Gary, you should already know that zombie Indie flicks belong on Blu-ray exclusively. It's a tradition!

BTW, I know you're a fan of Peter Jackson's early flicks too. His "Dead-Alive" is among my all-time favorites of that gender.

Edit: Any new news on your current "The Escape" project? This is the one you're filming on HD video? Release date?

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[Post edited by Skyhawk on Jan 27, 2008 - CST 7:25 PM]

Very current January 2008 Biography of Gary (DjfunkmasterG) on IMDB -

Gary was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in July 1971. Residing in the city until age 8 when his family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania. After a few years in that area the family again moved because of a job transfer to Syracuse, New York. Gary resided in the Liverpool, New York area for the better part of 10 years, and then on and off for 5 years. He attended Liverpool High School, and then moved back to the Scranton, PA area and completed his degree in Computer Sciences in 1993. In 1994, formed a side band with members of the local Pennsylvanian band Cheap N Nasty called Bak Alley. The Bad recorded 2 ballads in 1995, "Tell Me Why" and "Far and Away" Both songs were written at a gas station in Wilkes-Barre, PA by Gary and the bands lead guitarist Charlie Gilroy.

In 1997 Gary relocated to Allentown, PA to work as a DJ for local night clubs and Adult Entertainment complexes. He spent the better part of 2 years working for the Cabaret Adult club in Kingston, PA as a Dj, and in 2000 worked for the Grandview in Daleville, PA as the Saturday Night Dj. He also worked for the Professional Dj company the Pro's, from 1997-2000. In 2001, Gary went back to writing music on his own and having been heavily influenced by Techno and Club music for the better part of 3 years, he composed a 9 track CD of Dance music tracks based on the musical stylings of his favorite "remix producers." One of the songs from the LP, titled Tribute, appears in his directorial debut "Deadlands: The Rising" (2006)

Gary relocated to Baltimore, Maryland in December 2002 to find work, and in 2004 relocated to Gaithersburg, MD where he now resides. While living in Baltimore, MD he actively contacted the production company behind the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake in order to get information about the production. He started and hosted the now defunct online radio station Wetnwildradio.com (2003-2005) where he posted those tidbits of information about the production. In January 2004 wrote a 128 page screenplay for a zombie film titled Beyond Dead, some of this unused screenplay was used for his first film Deadlands: The Rising (2006)

In 2005, he began writing a short story titled Deadlands which would later become a short screenplay. The original idea was to film a very low budget short film and see where things went. Through many drafts the screenplay evolved and went from an 18 page post apocalyptic story, to a 30 page outline for a zombie outbreak scenario. The 30 page outline was used to film Deadlands: The Rising. The screenplay contained the format of a standard screenplay but was always considered an outline. Many scenes for the film were noted in the outline but not fleshed out until 2 weeks before filming of that particular scene.

Has won 5 awards with his film Deadlands: The Rising from 2 film festivals. Awards included, Best Director, Best Zombie Movie, and Excellence award.

When not filming, Gary also works as a Quality Assurance Specialist, and has worked in both the automotive and pharmaceutical industries for the past 12 years as of Jan 2008.

In 2007, was approached by Producers Chris Kiros and Elias Dancey of Art Held Hostage Productions to become one of four directors for a Zombie Anthology project titled "Zombthology" (2008). Gary will be directing the segment "Trapped." As part of his agreement, Gary will film two versions of Trapped, a 15-20 minute short version to be released with Zombthology, and an extended version that will receive a separate release. This was done because Gary found it hard to sum up the story of people Trapped inside a movie theater in 20 minutes. The extended cut will contain up to an hour of additional story and material and is expected to release in October 2008. [END]

Again, about my question... Well?

-LH (the Loverboy)

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This was done because Gary found it hard to sum up the story of people Trapped inside a movie theater in 20 minutes.

DJFunkmasterG,

One of my favorite demon movies was called I think, DEMONS. Where people were trapped in a movie theater. Anyway, I would be interested in watching your movies.

What exactly does this mean?

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as it was filmed in SD

Last time I checked you could get about 8 - 10 MP from scanned Film so couldn't you just remaster the movie into HD like the studios do... Unless the film has degraded seriously.

I want a Mustang GT500 KR Cobra. Like the one Will Smith had in I AM LEGEND.

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[Post edited by tony1569 on Jan 27, 2008 - CST 7:56 PM]

el_terrible, it wasn't filmed on "film". It was done like the "28 Days Later" movie, on standard 480 digital video.

Hendrix, you should give DjfunkmasterG a break IMO. Sure he's a format fanboy with enough emotional investment in a playback format to make up rumors, which I can't frankly understand. I mean, anyone into film to that extent I would think would be duel format in order to not miss anything. This format devotion thing still confounds me.

But I have to respect someone like Gary who saves up his money with his daytime job, and then blows it on an attempt at making a movie. Even if he says it's only a hobby, I bet he put his heart and soul into even this modest first attempt. Regardless if he becomes rich and famous someday, he's into creating things, and that's more than what I can say for 99% of the population I know.

To Skyhawk and LH:

I have a friend in LA who have worked in the biz for sometime and supposedly, this spring, Toshiba is supposed to announce going dual format. Meaning they will release a dual format player. If this is true, and he has never let me down before or gave me reason to think he is full of s**t, this is kinda good news for everyone.

To those about the films....
The first film was shot on three different MiniDV cameras, so yes it is standard SD. The second, TRAPPED, formerly The Escape, shot on a mix of SD and HD. At one point we were using a JVC camera for the HD content, and a DVX100 for the other camera. Trapped is expected to complete photography in May. We only shoot weekends because of our regular 9-5 jobs. The first film Deadlands, which was very low budget, $10,000.00, was my first attempt at filmmaking, and for what its worth it is a decent flick, but leaves a lot to be desired in terms of acting, and cinematography. Trapped went a completely different direction. I hired local actors with a nice amount of stage or short film acting, and even hired the infamous Helicopter Zombie from the original Dawn of the Dead to be a part of the cast. A new DP stepped into the project and we changed the filming style of the movie so Deadlands will look even more amateur once Trapped is released.

I did pop Deadlands into my A30 tonight and the upres made it look really nice, but a majority of the film is underlit, and like I said above is shot on 3 different MiniDv cams, so the amount of Grain in some respects is pretty bad.

I haven't watched the Trapped dailies on it yet because I have been doing that on a 25ft widescreen at the theater it is being shot it.

BTW, Demons, and The Return of the Living Dead were huge inspirations for Trapped.

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[Post edited by DjfunkmasterG on Jan 28, 2008 - CST 12:54 AM]