Shooting plan

I have gotten permission for a camera that i wanted to use today its my aunts one and it has things like night vision on it which i need to have in my film, if this camera doesnt work out i have a back up camera to use wich will be the one that matt and rathe are using.

As for the times that i will be filming my film i dont have a specific date as i will have to use the camera after christmas for obvious reasons why. As for the dates i will be getting my extra zombie actors any day that i can as i dont need to have them there all the time what i really need is my main survivors. Also with the holidays comming up i will be working quite a lot and i have a different rota every week so i will need to fit it in with that.

I will shoot it in different bits and locations on different days and try to get as much as possible done every day hopefully it should take only a few days to complete the filming of the trailer.

Pictures to further explain my ideas

Storyline

I havent really got a story line for my film as its done with hand camera style i can just film short little scenes then edit them into my trailer also i dont want to give a lot away in m,y trailer as this is a typical convention in zombie film trailers. I thought of some idead that there could be a disease that had broke out and infected people and turned them into zombies which is the more conventional idea for a zombie film and i thought that i would film some people with petri dishes in the william parker science lab with white coats on etc. I didnt think that this would work as it wouldbnt be filmed really in the hand camera style that i would like to use it would be very mis matched in my trailer.

There are some other scenes that i would like to do with jus surviviors running around and finding things the main scene that i would like to do is have them enter or like break into a house which is pitch black and them scramblibng around for match to see something then i will use my little brother who will be dressed up as a zombie to growl and to start attacking them.

Actors

In my film i have decided to have a few main actors as the 'survivors' of the film i havent decided on the people who will play them as of yet i think i will use people who i see often so that i wont be let down all of the time and i think i will use myself as its done in the hand camera style so i will be able to film and be in it. As for my zombies i will use any one that is willing to be in my film i will most likely use people in my family as i would like to have an age range in my film.

The survivors will be dressed in tattered clothing and will look generally unkept and untidy. As for the zombies i will be using make up on them and have tjhem blood splattered and in tattered clothing also. here is the sort of make up style that i would like to achieve for my zombies. it should be very realistic to do as it only uses blacks, greys and blues.

Locations for my film

For my film i will be using all locations in Hastings such as the old town i would like to use these locations at night and most likely the small passages in the old town so that the places would look abandoned and selcuded and i could have my zombies running round without the public getting in the way.

I would also like to use diffrent houses but for that i will use my own house and differnt members of my family and hopefully adjust it to what i would like to use it for.

Here is a picture that i found that is simular to a scene that i would to do in my trailer i would like to have the survivors running then the camera to show a bank or hill with no one on it then suddenly a whole group of zombies that have appeared then to chase after the humans. I would like to do simular running scenes where i would just use woodland areas and possilby the school site other than that i will just use streets and day to day places.

28 Days Later Trailer

With the 28 days later trailer i like how boyle has used the black background and the flashing text to show a passing of time and what has happend i think this technique is effective as we are informed to what is going on with the film without it going on for ages its very straight to the point. In this trailer also i think a technique i could use is not actually seeing the infected but show what they are capable of for example in the trailer when the man wakes up and literally everything is destroyed i think it could be an interesting way for showing the destruction also a way to show a lot of time has passed.

Colin Trailer

Here is the trailer for colin the whole film was made with only £45 at the beging of the trailer it uses quick jump cut shots which gives makes the shots look distorted and in motion. I could use this to show and suggest motion throughout my trailer also to imply that something is after my centeral characters but if i would want to create something that is impossible on my budget i could use this technique instead. The tense background music in colin also makes it much more tense and creates the mood and atmosphere for the film. The shots that have been used are very short bits of the film and tend to show either the zombies or humans reactions to what is happening to them, most of them are very simple and are realistic to achieve for me to do in my film.