Post Production

Patrick Lavaud did the initial offline editing, with Dipta Amangku serving as an associate editor; the whole process was quickly done in three days in total, on a laptop using Adobe Premiere, because we already know and familiar with the overall structure and flow.

The next step was to give the final offline edit to Putra Syah, our gifted composer whom we nicknamed "Hans Zimmer", and the brief was to create a minimalistic yet pulsating score dominated by percussion and strings; he managed to compose a grand and epic music score, which is one of the highlights of this project.

Meanwhile, Vardhika Iriawan and his team created the CGI effects such as the burning town, the aircrafts and helicopters, 3D machete blade, gun muzzle flash, blood splatters, even the zombie eyes, and everything took about a month in total to finish. The brief for the burning horizon scene was to recreate a war zone just like the Gaza bombing, and the end result was simply amazing. 

After the CGI effects was done, Andrie Yargana and Nurul Iman provided the sound effects that ranged from background ambient, gunshot, machete slash, aircraft and helicopter sound, to the zombie grunts. The only dialogue was "Are you okay?" spoken by the survivor to the young girl, and it had to be dubbed by Nurul because we had no sound recording equipment during the shoot.

The color grading was done by Rivai Chen at Trivision Studios, and we gave a blue-green desaturated look in order to give a grim, despair and hopelessness feel to it. 

And finally, after nearly two months; Dead In The Water is ready for a Grand Premiere!