"Dead Rising 2" Commercial

FIRST! All of the cast, including me 'watched' a green screen on the small monitor I was by and we all acted as if we were watching the woman who was never really there, during our portions of the commercial.

This is a real online commerical I did for a Capcom game's new episode that came out on October 11, 2011.

Zombie games are something I know almost absolutely nothing about. Somebody told me they know about "Dead Rising 2" and it might be a popular game, I just don't really know, though.

There are lots of interesting things about this video's production that folks may not be able to see from it.

First, the commercial was shot in the building that houses IGN.com a gaming site.

But the video was not shot in IGN's suite but rather the former space of a much more well known online company that has fallen onto such hard times, it's 'death' may be at hand.

This video was shot in the former offices of what was the headquarters of MySpace, we were told.

Most of the cast of the commercial know about the particular game and they all know so much more about zombie things than I know, or might ever want to know.

When you first watch the commercial, there is a female zombie heading towards the camera.

The young woman also had her husband as another cast member in the commercial and we all got to view her and her husband's wedding album from the wedding not that long ago.

It was quite a wedding album for most because she and her husband got married in a zombie-themed wedding, complete with makeup, wardrobe and lots of zombie stuff in the background.

These two young people seemed fairly normal to me but when folks learned of her profession, most of them could not believe what she does in another part of her working life.

I will admit I had never heard her name before and I never have had any interest in watching what her other work consists of...lesbian porn videos.

One should never assume what someone else might work as, just by their appearance or the fact they are in a hetero marriage. I liked both of them and together they looked like a fun and very loving couple.

As to the actress that appeared in place of the green screen all of us 'watched', she was basically looking at herself while she was in her zombie persona.

The actress first appears by the water cooler near the beginning of the commercial and then later, she appears near where I was sitting.

If you watch the video and notice that a group of zombies gather to watch what my zombie character is watching, the actress, in her zombie garb is to my left and looking over the cubicle panel, at what I am watching.

It was quite the transformation to see her as a zombie and then, as I was leaving after my scene was 'in the can' see her dressed as she was in the green screen shot, wig and all.

A publisher of a very popular site on the Web came to the shoot to interview the cast and director for an article he was doing for his site.

He asked me if I wished to be part of his article but since I know virtually nothing about the zombie life or genre, I decided to let others who have much more interest in the zombie life and all that goes along with that, be involved in the article.

If you are into everything 'zombie' and you get a look at others who were in the commercial and then appeared in his video article, maybe you can comment back to me and let me know where to find that article.

I was and still am very impressed with ALL the cast members and production crew that created that commercial. NOBODY was anything other that just a real person doing what the liked or loved to do and there was nothing nasty or foul that went on, in any way.

The foot I chomped on was foam, of course. It tasted just like painted foam should taste like. I could have bitten the big toe completely off, but I chose not to so it could be used again.

Another casting call, another fun time.