Cockneys vs. Zombies director Matthias Hoene created a new zombie short film, titled Don't Be Scared, and we have it for you to watch. This was produced for the UK mobile service giffgaff, and here's what Hoene had to say about his experience working on the project (via SciFiNow):
"...giffgaff don’t want to do advertising, because it’s all about being a network that is run by the users, and when it became so successful they sort of felt they had to do something a bit more of a short film or something different to make people aware of giffgaff. But they approached me with the basic strategy, basically, and from then on it was a super flexible easy process. And we filmed it over three days, it’s three minutes long.
It was an amazing experience in that every time I wrote something, giffgaff said “No, no you have to make it darker and scarier and a bit more out there! We wanted it to be as difficult as possible to put on television” so we thought “OK, that’s great.” So we tried to put a lot of out there stuff in there. It was a great experience to be able to make a three minute short film with the resources that giffgaff had given us, and putting it on television, and it sort of feels like now I’ve done zombies twice, I’ve definitely ticked that box in my life, but I’m excited to see it.
It was a great opportunity for me to take all the crew that worked with me on Cockneys and get them all back together again, a couple of years after filming. And we were all having déjà vus and flashbacks, and at the same time upping our game and improving our skillset. The same cameraman and all his crew was there, and our prosthetics artist Paul Hyett luckily managed to come back, even though he’s now directing on his own, as a favour to work on it. And then we had some zombie walk videos from the film still, that my movement choreographer on Cockneys prepared. And to be honest, it was mad, we invaded a small village, the village of Brocken, with zombies over three days and they didn’t know what was going on but they all kind of chipped in and wanted to be zombies themselves and that was great."
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