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SHOOTING A MONSTER PRODUCTION
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead is the feature film debut of writer/ director Jordan Galland. In order to handle the antique subject matter of this horror/comedy - vampires, Hamlet and the Holy Grail - Galland turned to cutting-edge camera technology from RED Digital Cinema and state-of-the-art digital processing solutions from Assimilate at Offhollywood Digital.
The story centers around Julian Marsh (Jake Hoffman, son of Dustin Hoffman), an out-of-work lothario who scores a break as the director of an off-Broadway play. The play is a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet written by a pale Romanian (John Ventimiglia) who is actually a master vampire. The script was inspired by Galland's favorite book growing up, Dracula, vampire movies such as The Hunger and Nadja, and Tom Stoppard's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The cast also includes Ralph Macchio, Jeremy Sisto and Devon Aoki. Sean Lennon scored the film.
If the production team had any doubts about turning to some of the newest HD production technology to shoot this story of a 2,000-year-old vampire and a comic reinterpretation of Shakespeare, the doubts were dispelled on viewing the quality of footage from the RED ONE 1K camera. "I was overjoyed to see the quality of the image," explains the director. "The RED camera captures light in an amazing way. Scenes shot by candlelight were unbelievable. We're making...