Our task was to plan and produce a two minute horror film opening within a specific horror genre. We chose to create our opening within the genre of zombie. We conducted research into horror films in various ways. We viewed films within our genre and took inspiration from them such as effective camera angles. We were highly influenced by the appearance of the zombies and also their movement as a lot of the well made zombie films contained zombies which were more realistic instead of the typical halloween zombies with very pale faces and slow walks. The image below is of a 28 Weeks Later style zombie. This zombie is clearly human but also it is clear that there is something wrong with him. He has red eyes and this is a characteristic which we used within our zombies.
Below are screen grabs of the shot with the eyes from 28 Weeks later and our version of the shot. We attempted to recreate this effect in our own way. We got our actress to wear red contacts so that she appears more abnormal and sinister. We also were influenced by the editing we saw. A lot of the zombie films which we used for research contained fast paced editing. Another way in which we did research into horror films was by using the internet movie database (IMDB) website so we could understand how to construct a target audience.
Our initial idea was inspired by the film 28 Weeks Later. We liked the fact that the zombies were more realistic and human and therefore to us they were more frightening. They were also fast which creates more fear as they can catch up to the victim. We new that it would be hard to film high speed running shots without them looking awful; never the less we still managed to capture a decent running shot with the camera still. We had the zombies run in and out of shot.
Below are screen grabs of the shot with the eyes from 28 Weeks later and our version of the shot. We attempted to recreate this effect in our own way. We got our actress to wear red contacts so that she appears more abnormal and sinister. We also were influenced by the editing we saw. A lot of the zombie films which we used for research contained fast paced editing. Another way in which we did research into horror films was by using the internet movie database (IMDB) website so we could understand how to construct a target audience.
Our initial idea was inspired by the film 28 Weeks Later. We liked the fact that the zombies were more realistic and human and therefore to us they were more frightening. They were also fast which creates more fear as they can catch up to the victim. We new that it would be hard to film high speed running shots without them looking awful; never the less we still managed to capture a decent running shot with the camera still. We had the zombies run in and out of shot.
We believe that it was a good compromise considering theres no way we could have managed a running scene such as this one from 28 Weeks Later.
We are trying to create a zombie horror that combines the traditional and modern depictions of zombies. We combined a simple casual everyday clothed zombie look with quick yet abnormal movement. We also picked normal actors and individual actors. Our two main actors were fairly plain whereas the main zombie stood out with her hair and contacts.
The video below is of the opening to Dawn of the Dead (2004 Remake). This inspired our opening title sequence as we had some interesting zombie shots that didn't fit continuity wise in our opening, hense we used these zombie shots to create a tense intro. We thought that it was an interesting way to induce tension within the intro and also make it clear what genre it was.
The first two images are screen shots from the Dawn of the Dead opening. They show a black screen with cast names and then flashing images of events and zombies. The bottom two images are screen shots from our film opening. We have incorporated the same elements within our film but just used zombies within the titles instead of events and images of war.
Our group consisted of myself, Daniel Smith, Kim Osbiston and Tom Nunn. We had an effective relationship as we all came up with ideas and combined them with each others to create interesting events. We managed problems by discussing them, revising them and seeing what we could change to improve or solve the problem, for example, we experienced problems when making the fake blood so we tried lots of different mixtures to try and acquire an effective consistency and look as shown in the image below.
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