Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera

We had a great interview session this week with Brett Wiewiora from Only In Pittsburgh.

Check out the article here! “OnlyInPGH Interview with Bonnie and Liz from Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera”

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We can’t thank our fabulous extras enough for their energy, time, and dedication over the last couple shoots! This week Video Production Director, Barry Bogovich,  posted a summary blog entry of the last couple shooting days, including zombie photos:

Time flies! It feels like just last week that we began production on “Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera.” Now that we’ve wrapped our seventh day of shooting, I can officially say that this show is going to rock! Obviously, I will not be able to discuss too much in great detail (or else you won’t be surprised at the show!), but I have jotted down some notes from what you’ve missed…. more

Click to read the full blog entry, including photos of the production team and our fabulous extras!

New blog entry (and video!) by Barry posted about our appearance at last friday’s Sprout Fund Summer Social!

Barry in Motion:  Planting Seeds at Sprout

This friday, the Sprout Fund held their Summer Social party in East Liberty. As a Seed Award recipient of the Fund, “The Zombie Opera” was provided with a booth at the event where artistic directors Bonnie Bogovich and Liz Rishel spread the word of the show. Music was provided by DJ Edgar Um and Dream Job (these guys were great!). Ed Huang, our director of photography, also made an appearance. Despite the rain, it was a fun time with good music and really great people.

Take a peak at some pictures from the event and a short video of our experience. Thanks to all who made it out. We’ll see you in October!

Show support for Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera and other Sprout Fund supported projects this Friday at the 2010 Sprout Summer Social. This event is free and open to the public!

Enjoy complimentary snacks and drinks while listening to live entertainment from Dream Job and DJ Edgar Um. Meet board members and staff to learn about Sprout’s programs. Discover recent projects funded by Sprout’s Seed Award and Spark programs. View the 2010 preliminary designs from Sprout Public Art.  more info….

We are happy to announce that Iron City is now the official beer sponsor of Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera!!!

Thanks to Iron City’s support of our show we were able to film our “End of the World Party” video elements this weekend featuring their product.  Many thanks to those who participated this past Sunday to help us create an authentic ‘party’ atmosphere!

The latest Directors Blog, by Barry Bogovich, is now up!

Production Day #3: ““Zombie Opera” Goes Cinematic

This Sunday we tackled some interior video elements, starting with Izzie’s house (one of the female leads) as she searches for her missing family.  Check out Barry’s posting for more details on the film style, makeup and costume design.  Tonight we return to the same location to film the second half of the scene. Stay tuned!

The latest “Barry In Motion” blog from our Director of Video Production takes a peek at our latest projection tests for the upcoming show in October:

Pushing the Line Between 2D and Real
“our magical formula for creating a fictional world behind real live actors”

Great Job to everyone involved in the Oakland video shoot this Saturday! We managed to get two days worth of filming done in one day, thanks to our dedicated actors, numerous enthusiastic extras, fight choreographers, and camera crew.

For a look behind-the-scenes, as well as some photos from the shoot, check out Video Director Barry Bogovich’s latest blog entry:
Production Day #2: “The Zombie Opera” Invades Oakland!

This was our first production day involving more than two extras at one time (thank you again Ashley and Bill for jumping in for the Newscaster shoot last weekend) so we were lucky to have our fabulous “Zombie Wrangler”, Jill , on set to help us keep track of everyone, Matt Reese to make sure our extras stayed in character, and Sean Martin and Keith Leonard to help choreograph the fight sequences, making our riots believable, but safe for all involved:)

Also, as has been pointed out, there were no actual zombies in the Oakland Zone Riot scenes we shot this Saturday. However, dear, sweet extras, there are many zombie scenes in your future.  If you are not on the extras contact list, but would like to be, please contact Jill Egyud, our “Zombie Wrangler”.

This saturday marks our second weekend of video production for Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera, and our first shoot involving extras. For information about joining our extras call list, check out our new and improved Extras on Film information page.

In case some of you are already signed up for the extras call list but have not received emails this past week, please note that any emails regarding extras will be coming from jill@thezombieopera.com, they may have ended up in your spam box so please check, thanks!

EDIT:  Please be aware that by participating in this production, you will be asked to sign a Non-Disclosure, Personal Release, Liability Release, and Contract of Conduct form. (click the links to download and print each form)

Take a seat behind the director’s chair as Barry blogs about our first official video shoot this past weekend, as we tackled the “Stay Tuned” newscast scenes, introducing our singing Newscaster (Dave Egyud) to the production:

BREAKING NEWS: “The Zombie Opera” Production Has Begun!!”

We’d like to send a special thank you to Duquesne University’s Media Center staff for their amazing efforts to supply the space for our production. You guys rocked!