Zombies vs Nerf Hoarders . . . wow so far my most viewed video on youtube.
40,000 views (as of today) and growing.
HOW IT WAS STARTED
First off thank you to all my new subscribers and everyone who watched this video and gave me all this credit for it. Sadly I can only take some of it. The whole idea of the video came from a friend of mine that asked me to help him in a video contest. He is best known for making and selling modified Nerf guns (http://www.youtube.com/user/lasagna678nerfmods). The contest was to show off the housing unit at the university he is currently attending. That is why they refer to it as “North” housing and there are some shirts referring to Lawrence Tech. There was discussion about showing more of the housing units (like the kitchens and laundry units) but for time purposes they were edited out, and frankly we were not happy with the footage.
So Yea he contacted me to help . . . he wrote/directed/ and even edited his own version (also on this blog listed further below).
The Production
I was to be the camera guy and provide any assistance I could. lasagna 678nerf mods Wrote/ Directed/ stared in this. He also casted everyone. The most notable things I can say about cast and the crew is 1. they were almost all (including me) in the same fraternity Alpha Sigma Phi. 2. I was the only one that had experience doing the technical work on a narrative video.
The Videos
The housing contest edit (the original)
This won 1st place (could be because it was the only submission to the contest)
HOW MY VERSION WAS BORN
At the same time we were doing this video I was informed that the same university was having a short film festival. The date to turn in videos was the same as the contest for Housing. Since they wanted more submissions I thought it was a good idea to edit a different version (since I was able to use the raw footage that looked cleaner, and have a lot more experience editing). I did my editing and turned it in within a single weekend, so not a lot of time.
This version did not win any awards at the University’s Film Festival.
The Comments and After-Thoughts
One big difference is the use of sound effects, I did not think I needed the guns firing. People know they are Nerf guns, they look like Nerf Guns, why shouldn’t they sound like Nerf guns? In the next story arc I may use gun sound effects since it was a huge question in the comments so far.
The big support in the comments means a lot. We will do another Zombies vs Nerf Hoarders. We decided to use the same crew with new people from my own productions (including Special Effects Make Up and actors from my last 2 movies.) There will be a lot of differences since I will use better equipment, and I will be writing/ directing with the help of lasagna 678 nerfmods, he will still be staring and providing the props (also approving the script). It will be bigger and more epic than the original. 🙂
I t will filmed in the fall.
Thank you all so much and I hope you not only watch the next few movies but keep on commenting and showing support 🙂
Toad/ Scott