Exploring Initial Ideas

After completing the two preliminary tasks, we were asked to  Explore the four possible routes we could do for our project. As I already knew what I wanted to do I went into deeper knowledge about the movie I wanted to make. I did delve into the Three other possibilities which are Audio, Print and Website.

For the print, I looked into making a music magazine which is about new songs in the same format as "No Copyright Sounds".. For the magazine, I would have made a campaign for the local area to either get certain shops in our area or even something for charity. I think if I didn't do video, I would have done radio. For radio I wanted to do the news bulletin in a similar format to how the "Chris Moyles Show" used to do as that was the only radio show I ever listened to. I liked the format so I thought that I could take inspiration for my own project.

I ended up going for Movie as I really enjoy movies and could see myself one day getting into either the movie business or even in to making games. Personally, I like horror/dark movies so I thought I would give it a go making a zombie film. I love the Zombie genre and is one of the only things I every really watch having films like "World War Z" being on of my most favorite films and I watched "Walking Dead" and it's companion show right from the start. To start of with the mind map I looked at many features that goes into making a zombie film like the makeup, the story and the audio used to produce one. I wanted the film to be to do with the local area and filmed as if it happened around the time we start filming.

For Audio I separated out between Music and Sound effects. For music I took the theme tune for "World War Z", "28 Days Later" and "Shaun of the Dead". They all have that unique "End of the world" feel to the songs which I would like to replicate in my film if I use a theme tune. For Sound effects I wrote down the sound of gunshots, Slashing of knives cutting zombies and the zombie moans that are made.

Makeup is where I put a lot of time thinking about what would be needed. I took a reference image from "The Walking Dead" and talked about all of the different features found in zombie makeup like the cuts, gore, exposed flesh and grayed, rotting skin.

One more thing I looked into is the story for my movie, I explored some ideas on what I would like to happen, for instance I would like the news of the zombie virus starting out with it being described as acts of cannibalism etc. One thing which is seen in almost every film is that the main characters always do the wrong things which end up getting them killed, for my movie I would like the characters to be smart about what they do so they/he could become a true survivor. In the mind map I put a potential start to two minute introduction with a car pulling up in front of the camera with the driver getting out, the scene would cut to the driver holding his gun and looking over at a body on the floor with a rifle next to him...

I think for exploring initial ideas this is all that was needed and now I have a good understanding of what I need to research to make a good zombie movie.