Thursday, 20 October 2011

Research and Planning: Treatment

Idea 1: This is my idea for my teaser trailer, a flash of a character waking up in a hospital. There is then to be an editing transition (mimicking TV static) to a news reader reading the public guidance on what to do and not what to do in the zombie outbreak. The camera will then jump to a wide shot of a group of survivors who are watching the report. The camera begins to pan around the group and as the dialogue of the news reader stops the survivors begin to hear banging on the walls and doors all around them. The camera then jumps to them running into the main character who was in the hospital but is now running from a zombie horde. The trailer then finishes with the group running past the camera followed by the zombies. The name of the film will appear and the date will follow. The last small scene will be of the news reader saying "is that it?, can we go now?" and a zombie bursting in and eating the news reader.


This was going to be my original idea however I have now made changes to make the trailer seem more realistic as it would have been difficult to do certain aspect of the trailer if I was going to carry this idea forward. All these changes can be seen in the animated storyboard

  • The shots will now be shorter so the floow of the trailer will seem faster and will carry more suspense
  • There will be no main character or group shown in the trailer as I have decided to make the trailer seem like random pieces of news footage
  • The location for my trailer will now be based in the media studio in collage for the news broadcasting center and anywhere in the street will be featured to show a character on his own surrounded by zombies.

Friday, 14 October 2011

Research and Planning: proposals/ group meeting

Idea 1: This is my idea for my teaser trailer, a flash of a character waking up in a hospital. There is then to be an editing transition (mimicking TV static) to a news reader reading the public guidance on what to do and not what to do in the zombie outbreak. The camera will then jump to a wide shot of a group of survivors who are watching the report. The camera begins to pan around the group and as the dialogue of the news reader stops the survivors begin to hear banging on the walls and doors all around them. The camera then jumps to them running into the main character who was in the hospital but is now running from a zombie horde. The trailer then finishes with the group running past the camera followed by the zombies. The name of the film will appear and the date will follow. The last small scene will be of the news reader saying "is that it?, can we go now?" and a zombie bursting in and eating the news reader.

Idea 2: The second idea for my teaser trailer is more of the paranormal activity approach to cinematography and editing. The scene will start with a group of people who are waking through the streets. all the shots will be done on hand held camera so it will be hard to determine what camera shots and angle will be used in this trailer. The group of people will walk through the street during the night when everything is quiet, a sound will be heard in the background and the group will begin to panic. The camera will pan to a character walking on his own in the distance. One of the group will shout out "hey, come here quick!"  the wondering character will begin to walk toward them and a zombie will pop out in front of him and pushes him to the ground and begins to eat him. The leader of the group will then turn and walk away. The title of the film will appear. The camera will then come back on an the person holding the camera will sound out of breath and the a zombie will jump out in front of the camera then it just cuts off and the release date appears for the film.

Idea 3: My final trailer idea will pull away from the zombies and focus more on the action virus that has plagued the earth. There will be a lone survivor who is walking around a housing estate, the character is being followed by a O.T.S, a scream will come from one of the houses. the man will run upstairs and see a man having a fit on a bed the main character the begins to restrain to fitting man as the woman in the background shouts in upset hes contagious. the trailer will then cut to the title of the film and the release date, the section at the end shows the man walking down the road will dead bodies covered up all along the pavement

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Research and Planning: London research trip


We wen to London film museum and looked at the horror props and some of the old horror sets the image above is of the film Aliens and the prop is of the queen alien, the bottom image is from various horror film and is shows masks and out fits from mummy movies.