Research and Planning Provisional Marks

You need to revisit all of your posts and spend a couple of hours adding some extra analysis where you can - mise en scene, narrative, representations, camera composition, lighting, sound, editing, branding, unique selling points. Also comment on some of the recent images and the footage you have posted recently. I would like to see some evidence of your time management - dates and timelines for production - and would love to see more of your video blogging. A good blog page - if you spend some more time making your research and planning feel more like an exciting journey then you'll really impress! 15/20

Draft of final Poster.

This is a draft for our final poster, we used an image of the zombie make-up that i have done and we used it for a poster.

We thought about

Virus Development Shots.

On our first day of shooting a few of our actors werent able to make it due to school rehursals or christmas play rehursals so we decided that we would film a variety of developing shots. On the day it was also very cloud and rainy so it was perfect for the image that we wanted to go for and inspired how the film will look today.

Because we know we wanted to use a school as its a relatable location for our target audience we tried to go to more obsucure places. For example a panning shot from above the buildings is on a stair case to a blocked part of the building meaning nobody really does up there. As the is an view of the building students wont know it will be more intreaging. Corridoors are something we really want to include in our production due to the grim lighting that occures when we change to colouring of the trailer.

0:00 - 0:04 // We filmed whilst walking down the E corridoor and after that we edited the clip to slow it down. This created a haunting atmosphere and made the camera jult more causing the light reflecting off the wall to give the illution its flickering. This technique and location is somthing we will probably use in a death scene of one of the lead charecters. The enclosed corridoors makes the audience feel costriphobic and alone which will in turn make the audience feel for human charecters in the corridoor as you can predict danger.

0:05 - 0:08 // The section of the year 7 playground I film here had to be cut due to the bright colours in the art windows and the brightly coloured blue and yellow doors. From this we learnt that bold colours dont work well as they still overpower the editing making it look amature.

0:09 - 0:12 // The field I feel is a really strong location due to the flat landscape across it, it really emphasises how alone the humans. Aswell as this the trees at the back when editied create a dark frame around the field emphasising on the enclosed space they live in makeing the audience feel they are safe.

0:15 - 17// The building shown are as bright as I would would to include any colour in our production. Any brighter I think the building become to obvious and it takes the attention away from whats happening in the scene.

0:32 - 0:35// The playground is a good location as its the most steryotypical location in a school, reminding the audience where its set. Aswell as this the fencing around the edge of the play ground also makes it seem like a prison, making it appear dangerous.

0:41 - 0:45// This is possible my favirote location due to the dug up ground making the school grounds appear untended to as if it has been left. It also suggests a sort of aftermass of the Zombie apocalips as if a veichal of some sort has driven and taken up the grass. Aswell as this the puddles of dirt make it seem dirty and abandoned.

Zombie Poster.

Making a zombie poster.

When making a zombie poster we have to think about what images we use, what font we use and what colours we should use, by looking at these posters of zombie films it is present that we should use some sort of zombie-like image, just like 'Zombie' 'The Zombie Diaries' and 'Day of the Dead', however we could use a zombie like object or feature as the main picture. the font and colour seem to focus on being very bold, thick and red, this shows that when creating our poster we should use bold fonts and bright blood red coloring.

 

This here is a template of what a poster should look like, we can base our posters off this so that we can make it look as ourthentic as possible.

Teaser Trailer for VIRUS

While we were producing our film trailer, we decided to create a teaser trailer for our film. A teaser trailer is usually released a long time before the main trailer, and is used to build hype around the film. We decided to create one, as we wanted the chance to play around with marketing, and see what ideas we could apply to the teaser. We added rock music and a special filter to the footage to enhance the cold and isolation of the footage.

We decided to have the scene set in a fire escape

Overall we are happywith the syle of our teaser trailer and we really enjoyed creating it.

'Virus' Storyboard

This video is our 'Virus' trailer storyboard.(the figures with the red parts are the zombies)

The locations for half of this storyboard will be at our school grounds, we decided this because with our time manegment we thought it would be quick and easy to film.
For some of our shots (mostly the end action shots) we will be filming anywhere we can, because these shots will only last for about 2/3 seconds we can choose a spur of the moment location and shoot there.

We decided to use 'rock' music because we want the viewer to feel exhillerating while watching the trailer, we want the music to build up to the fast action shots to create a suspense through the beginning and then creating a loud 'drop' of music in the action shots.

The special effects we will use is mostly for sound because we will have gun shots to make the props seem real, and use overlaping sound of zombie noises instead of making the actors do it in front of the camera we think we will record a backing track of the noises to create a more theatrical trailer.

we chose to do a range of shots because we wanted a diverse type of trailer, ranging around medium shots, close- ups and long shots. the medium and long shots will be used for when we are filming action and 'battle' scenes, the close-ups will be used for when we want to focus on a characters expression or their speech.
 
We will be involving fast black transitions, by doing this is gives the trailer a fast pace making the viewer feel like there is alot happening, and makes them wonder what is going on behind the black transitions making them want to go to the cenima and see the whole of the film to know what is really happening.



 

Zombie Script 3

VIRUS

-green banner-
-production info-

[Medium shot of rebel on bike cycling away from behind, hand held to give the shaky effect]

Rebel: (whilst cycling looks over his shoulder to see how close the zombies are)

[close up on rebels face, tracking shot as he turns his head to face forward]

Rebel:(turns face forward, shakes head)

[close up low angle shot taken from floor level showing the bike skid side ways into the P.E. corridor]

Rebel: (jumps off bike and starts banging on the outside door to the hall) open the doors

[close up of zombies feet dragging across the floor]

Rebel: (try to push the door open by ramming his side into it) damn it

[over the shoulder shot from zombie prospective closing in on Rebel]

Rebel: (rams into door as it opens)

{music builds up to climax}  

[medium shot, high angel of the door showing rebel lying on the floor]

Rebel: SHUT THE DOOR

[the camera is slowly zooming in, doors shut on camera]

[long shot of boys just taking a rest]

{everything goes silent}

*EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT ONCE*

[zoom into boys (django unchained) or just straight into a medium shot where they are all holding the door holding sports equipment as weapons]

{zombies are groaning}

All: (panicing and screaming)

[zombies are pushing the door making it move]

[a variety of angles to emphasis panic]

[doors stop moving]

{violent sounds of fighting outside}

[medium shot of the group of boys from the back]

Boys: (back away from the door)

[Hero kicks open door, fog and zombies are on the floor]

Hero: you ladies alright

[close up of boys (goonies shot)]

boys: (nodding their head fast)

[over the shoulder shot from the boys view looking at the hero]

Hero: I'll leave you too it then (turns around) {huffs} (turns back to face them) then again you could always join me

[transition shot making it appear like a vision]

[montage of the film and dramatic fight scenes] 

[transition shot out of the montage back to the over the shoulder shot]

-title-

all: (cliche walking in sync together in a triangle formation out the school)

-coming soon info-