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Assignment 14
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- 2. Subgenre - Zombie Azombie is a reanimated corpse, usually in the stages of rot and decay, with insatiable hunger with a preference for living flesh.
- 3. What did Ilearn from researching this subgenre? How to create effective zombie make up, sounds and camera tricks. How to create our OTS – from the plan. How to introduce the audience into the subgenre through OTS – show frightening/ intense scenes of the zombies attacking people/ show the development of a zombie apocalypse. The target audience. Conventions of the subgenre. Creating effective narrative enigmas and cliff- hangers to get the audience on the edge of their seats.
- 4. Conventions of thezombie horror subgenre are…
- 5. Plot A protagonistis trying to find a safe place from the onslaught of the zombies. A protagonist tries to save the Earth from the zombies and is trying to restore humanity through the use of a vaccine (e.g. World War Z).
- 6. Characters/ representation Theprotagonist is usually represented as brave and heroic – counter-typical to most people in that situation. Zombies are represented as disgusting flesh- eating monstrosities that are ruthless (stereotypical of a antagonist) to achieve their goal – to eat their human victims.
- 7. Setting Typically setin a dystopian future where once great or big cities are now in ruins and are surrounded by giant wastelands, where there is no life to be seen – apocalyptic zombie horrors.
- 8. Camerawork - examples Close ups/ extreme close ups to show the audience full extents of the violent zombies – e.g. a close up of one biting a human. Establishing shots to show the audience of the apocalyptic landscapes. Crane shots to show the mass of grouping zombies. Longshots to show humans running away from zombies – can also use a POV (handheld) or tracking movement.
- 9. Editing - examples Quick cuts from one scene to another to show rising fear/tension for characters in at a specific point in the film. Cut to black/ fade to black to show something dramatic has just happened (maybe wait a few seconds to continue with the story to show tension within the audience).
- 10. Sound - examples Synchronous sound to match the music with the action. A crescendo to increase the volume of sound/music when there is increasing peril for the protagonist. Foley sounds (e.g. bone splitting or explosions) to increase a protagonist’s peril.
- 11. Mise-en-scene - examples The protagonist would wear rough/dirty clothing to show to the audience the ordeal he/she has gone through. Whereas the zombies will wear ragged clothing with blood dripping from its body, with rot and flesh covering it. The lighting will be low key to show dystopia.
- 12. Plot/storyline You seepeople lurking in dark alleyway’s, groaning with their heads down. You can see their silhouettes in Windsor. Also shots of people walking around like it’s a normal day. Local news radio reports 12 people missing in Windsor, questioning this odd thing. Close zoom in on radio, cuts to black. Cuts to a headline in a regional newspaper, stating that there have been multiple reports of a strange bite marks on peoples bodies. Shows a photograph of the bite mark. Goes onto national news, this time on TV, with a huge rise in hospital numbers due to people getting a strange sickness. The reporter states that the bite marks might be related to this strange sickness. Goes onto national news with several people violently attacking and killing other people on city streets. Shows destruction on the streets. Some close ups of these attacks. Outside reporter (a person who reports in the field or area of which the events are occurring from) reports near the scene of the attack, telling people to lock their doors and stay inside because of these violent attacks. No-one is sure why these attacks are happening. Cuts to a shot of a newspaper headline that states that bite marks have been reported worldwide. Cuts to another news report where there are several violent attacks and murders happening all across the world. Still got the same outside reporter – shows that the attacks are worse and that more people are involved. Cuts to a scene different shot, still at the same scene, where the zombies are now running towards the anchorman – who doesn’t know they are after him.
- 13. Reinforce or challengeconventions and why? Reinforce the conventions of the subgenre so that the audience can clearly relate with this horror OTS so that it is easier for them to identify with the zombie horror subgenre; making it easier for them to understand and follow, plus it will likely attract the same target audience of those who typical zombie horrors.
- 14. We will createenigma by… Questioning the audience with what will happen next. What happened to the outside reporter? Does the world plunge into an apocalypse? How will the story continue? What happens at the end? Questioning the audience with what is going on. What does this bite mark mean? Is it causing people to violently attack and kill others? Why would they attack other humans on a mass scale? How long has this been going on for?
- 15. Type of OTS Non-linearthroughout to show the time-lapse of how the zombie apocalypse started, and to show, in time, how devastating it becomes. Also, non-linear OTS is less common to use than linear OTS.
- 16. Character types/ socialgroups Outside reporter – serious and professional throughout most of the OTS. Wearing a long coat. He is made to look brave for reporting in dangerous circumstances. Zombies – vicious and violent monsters that kill without remorse. They are made to look vile. Inside reporter – similar to anchorman except he is wearing a suit. People – scared and defenseless – in need of saving.
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- 18. Resident evil afterlife Itwas inspirational because it showed me that to make a very exciting/ intense horror film, you have to place the characters in a place where they need to escape from – a prison -, and that place being difficult to get out of – because of all of the zombies there.
- 19. Dawn of theDead It was an inspirational film because it showed me the extent of the zombie apocalypse and how it affects normal, uninfected people – for example, there was a guy on the roof of a gun store, starving to death, because he had no food. He couldn’t get down because of the all the zombies surrounding his store.
- 20. World War Z Thiswas an inspirational film because it shows how one man struggles (played by Brad Pitt) to get around in life when there are zombies everywhere, and he is always in life-threatening danger (making the film very exciting), and, ironically, he stumbles upon a cure which people have spent ages trying to find.
- 21. Our USP (uniqueselling point) is… Is that our OTS is going to be non-linear and it will show effectively how more-or-less normal life turns into a catastrophic zombie attack, all shown throughout a time lapse into specific events that leads up to the final scene.
- 22. Target audience Aged between15 to 25 and mostly men from a working or middle- working class background (largest audience that watches horror zombie films).
- 23. Our film willattract our target audience by Adding in lots of close ups in gore and violence. Adding tense moments that will frighten the audience. Adding in fear in people that is easy for the audience to identify the specific character types – outside reporter, and villains – the zombies. Making it easy and quite simple so that the audience can understand what is going on.