Having worked successfully with DNA films and Fox on Sunshine I was asked to make behind the scenes videos for their next film, 28 Weeks Later.
For this project I was keen to push the boundaries of behind the scenes films: Everyone knows what they are going to get with this sequal to the amazing and groundbreaking 28 Days Later, so I didn't want to make simple making of films. I wanted to make scary abstractions that really conveyed the spirit of the film.
Each short film was dark and twisted and gave you a glimpse of the terrifying world you were going to enter.
I developed a type of flashing image I called a blipvert [in honour of Max Headroom].
It was aimed at creating an uneasy feeling into the viewer. I wanted to do this because that is exactly how the film makes you feel. I'd been in the cutting room when Juan Carlos was cutting the outbreak scene and it was fucked up....really fucked up. Charlie Broker described watching the film 28 Weeks Later as like 'being thrown down a flight of stairs'.