Walking Dead Apocalypse, The

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Walking Dead Apocalypse, The
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Original Release Date:
2010
Original Running Time:
292
Fanedit Release Date:
Fanedit Running Time:
199
Time Cut:
93
Brief Synopsis:
This edit takes the first season of The Walking Dead and converts it into movie, chronicling the Survival story of Rick Grimes as he finds himself in the middle of the Zombie Apocalypse.
Intention:
To Create a more focused version of Walking Dead centering more around Rick, and his story of survival in the Zombie Apocalypse
Release Information:
Digital
Editing Details:
I cut most of the subplots, made it mostly from Rick’s point of view, and you see stuff for the first time like the camp, when Rick sees them for the first time as well, in order to keep some mystery about them. There are almost no jumps between the camp and the city. The story follows Rick and you only go to a scene without Him when the plot really needs it. But Also i tried to keep the most important aspects of the story and stuff that might be important for season 2 and beyond.
Cuts and Additions:

This is not everything but these are the most important i remember:
*could have cut more but i feel this is just fine
Episode 1:
-Changed the intro logo with new music
-Cut the conversation between Rick and Shane before the cop chase
-Trimmed the scene of Rick in the hospital
-Trimmed dialog and scenes with Morgan at the house
-Cut a lot of Duane’s dialog
-Cut Rick hitting Zombie with bat
-Trimmed Police station scene
-Cut killing zombie officer outside station
-Cut entire scene with rick killing the zombie he saw when he was on the bike and Morgan trying to kill his Zombie wife
-Cut the scene where the hear him on radio from the camp. There is no camp scene now. Now simply nobody answers him
-Trimmed horse riding scene
Episode 2:
-Cut all camp scenes
-Trimmed dialog from scenes with Rick and Glen
-Trimmed scene when you first see Merle
-Deleted all the pointless scenes with Merle and cut a lot of his stupid dialog.
-Trimmed significantly dialog between Rick and Andrea
-Deleted scene of Merle and T-Dog alone on roof
-Deleted scene of looking into zombie’s wallet
Episode 3:
-Deleted entire scene of Merle going crazy alone in the roof. Keeps the mystery on what happened to him
-Deleted scene of Shane, Lori and Carl
-Trimmed scene of The survivors arriving
-Put the erotic scenes of Shane and Lori as very trimmed flashbacks when Lori looks at Shane while hugging Rick
-Deleted all scenes with Ed
-Trimmed large amount of Lori and Rick in Bed
-Trimmed scene With Rick waking up next morning
-Trimmed scene before going to find Merle
-Deleted Lori and Carl scene
-Trimmed scene with Shane and Carl catching frogs
-Deleted scene of girls talking about dildos(yea real conversation)
-Deleted Ed beating from Shane
Episode 4:
-Deleted girls boat scene
-Deleted entire subplot of Jim digging holes in camp
-Trimmed scene of Old Lady taking Rick to the Hospital
-Deleted scene of Andrea looking for gift wrapping
-Deleted Ed scene
-Trimmed a lot of the scene with the survivors eating around fire
-During zombie attack Ed now is just a random guy attacked by zombies. you don’t see his beat up face
-Cut Jim’s comment about holes
Episode 5:
-Trimmed Andrea scene with Dale
-Deleted scene with Carol abusing Ed’s body
-Edited a lot Amy’s resurrection scene
-Deleted funeral scene
-Trimmed a lot Jim’s goodbye scene
-Deleted first Jenner’s scene
Episode 6:
-Deleted elevator scene
-Trimmed dialog afterwards
-Trimmed dinner scene
-Deleted shower scenes
-Deleted Andrea with Dale scene
-Deleted Carol with kids scene
-Put the scene with Shane trying to save Rick as flashback after his attack on Lori
-Trimmed breakfast scene
-Deleted Lori commenting about air condition scene
-Trimmed some dialog from zombie’s brain scene
Cover art by g1orkatos (DOWNLOAD HERE)
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This Fanedit Was Nominated for "Best TV-to-Movie Edit" in the 4th Annual Fanedit Awards

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g1orkatsos had warned me before diving in that this was his first edit and not representative of what he is currently capable of. For a first time editor, this is very good fanedit, but not without fault. Overall, this is a worthwhile edit for fans of the show/zombie genre, but as a straight up movie it didn't do much for me. My biggest issue with the edit is the running time. 3 hours and 20 minutes is way too long. Far too much time was spent straying from what should have been the crux of the edit (reuniting Rick with his family and getting to the CDC). The whole Hunt for Merle was really unnecessary, especially since the audience never finds out what happened to him. There was also a lot of sceen time spent on characters that were not essential to the plot. If 45 minutes to an hour were cut, I think this edit would have been great. The video quality was great, but the blend transitions felt out of place. The audio editing was good, but not unnoticeable.

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I had not seen any of Walking Dead before watching g1or's edit. But this was a fantastic introduction to the series. I am no stranger to TV-to-Movie fanedits (I've watched several and made one myself) and I realize what a difficult undertaking it is. To craft a single narrative arc out of something that is episodic in nature requires serious skill in both editing and storytelling. g1or manages to pull it off quite well.

The audio editing was invisible to me. The visual editing was ok but to nitpick just a bit some of the fade outs and ins were a bit abrupt but I understand that they were necessary for the edit. Other than that I don't have many complaints.

This edit left me wanting more. I had lots of questions after I finished. What happened to the guy who was handcuffed on the roof? What did the CDC guy whisper to the sheriff? etc.

I'm not usually a fan of zombie stuff but g1or's edit may have convinced me to start watching Walking Dead.

Nice work g1or!

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A well made edit, but one that for my tastes has the same problem I find with the unedited show: with the exception of the season finale, the episodes are for the most part all chatter until at the end something exciting finally happens to get you to watch the next episode, which of course will repeat the same structure. The edit still has that episodic feel all through, despite having removed quite a few scenes that are not missed at all. Still, I find that more could have been trimmed for pacing, particularly in the camp segment and also the Latin gang: when their true nature is revealed, the fact that they pulled the gang card the way they did feels contrived, so cutting their "thugness" back might have worked.

Editing was for the most part well done, except for a couple fast dissolves that I felt could have worked better as straight cuts, such as after Rick's farewell to Morgan and son. The only odd thing audio-wise were a couple moments that had music start playing just to be ended after a few seconds (check the end of the Shane hospital flashback). It's properly crossfaded and doesn't feel abrupt or anything, but it feels like it shouldn't be there. A few seconds of audio replacement and recreated foley would have been preferable.

Thechnically, apart from the glitch that has already been mentioned, I noticed a couple of strange flash frames around the 2h10m30s mark (the corpse burning scene). I say strange because they don't come from removed shots, but from what appear to be removed parts of shots that stay.

As I say, a good edit but one that I think will appeal mainly to those who are already fans of the show, while I don't know if it will make many converts.
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Well cut and fast paced. Slick, action packed version of season one. Highly recommended!

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July 16, 2012 @ 9:57 pm

This was one of the first Fanedits I downloaded and have been waiting for the right time to sit down and watch it, in its entirety. I am a huge Walking Dead fan and was planning to do a FE of my own. g1orkatsos did me a huge service by doing this edit. I no longer have to do one cause this one is perfect. The only idea I had in doing my FE that was left out of this one is I would like to see it in B&W.

Audio = 10/10
Video = 10/10
Cuts = 10/10
Story = 10/10
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