As a film student at the Art Institutes of California San Francisco in Digital Film and Video Production, and as a huge fan of the Resident Evil video games series, I have decided to base my senior project on this universe.

Resident Evil is a videogame series created by the japanese company Capcom in 1996. The games are about a pharmaceutical company, Umbrella, which creates zombies and bio-weapons trough viruses. These monsters tend to escape on a regular basis, and create chaos and mayhem. A special forces unit called "S.T.A.R.S." and some of their relatives fight against Umbrella and its monstrous creations.

Capcom said in 2008 that they released worlwide a total of 34,500,000 copies of the games. There are 4 Hollywood movies based on the Resident Evil franchise, one Japane full-CGI movie, two series of books (English and Japanese), three series of comic books produced by Images Comics, and a lot of Chinese Mangas. Resident Evil is famous and generate a lot of money.

• Let's make it clear right here: I am not going to sell my movies.
• They are made as student projects and will be released for free on Internet.

Because I am a fan from the early days, I am working on movies based on the very first games back in 1996 and 1997, Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 1.5 (for more information on this game, check Bioflames in English or SurvivHor in French. Also, I have made 3 videos in 2007 compiling all the informations available on this game: 01; 02 and 03).

Jerome Chagnon

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• RELEASE DATE: HALLOWEEN 2010

We don't know enough about Resident Evil 1.5 so it is almost impossible to make a good adaptation of the game - and I didn't really want to make guesses. So I came with the idea that we know enough about the game to create a few scenes. And a few scenes would be enough for a trailer.

The trailer will be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes long. I have shoot so far 7 minutes of usable footage (not counting every takes for every scenes) divided in 15 scenes. I still need to shoot a little more, thought. Then the editing process will start. After I have a rough editing, I will get the music and sound design created and I will work on the visual effects. Actually, 30 people have worked on this project, and I am really excited about it.

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• RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2011

The idea behind Patient Zero came during a talk with my friend Nabil Ayari. He told me that he wanted to make a very short movie, based on the Resident Evil universe, and showing the creation of the first zombie - ergo, the title. I suggested a few ideas and then, life quicked in as it often does and Nabil couldn't shoot his movie due to personal problems.

A few months later, I asked him if I could take the title and the concept, but change the storyline. He was all for it, and that's how Patient Zero started.

The story will involve Albert Wesker and Ada Wong, in a short movie – between 8 and 12 minutes long. I am using the same crew and most of the same actors I used for my RE1.5 trailer to make this project. Shooting will start in July 2010.