What subgenre do we want to do? We intend on doing a Zombie subgenre as we feel that we could use a variety of shots for different situations while effectively using mise-en-scene to show the audience it is a Zombie horror What type of OTS will it be? We were thinking of either doing a linear approach or a symbolic OTS. We felt that linear could be used to help tell a story and we could focus on the scripting, costumes and location, whereas we thought that a symbolic could be effective as we could symbolise the spread of a disease through clever editing without giving too much away. We felt that a non-linear OTS would be more effective for a TV Series rather than a film and thought it would give too much away leaving too many narrative enigmas to cover in one film. What are your plot/storyline ideas? We were either thinking of a similar idea to "The Last Of Us" where it follows the spread of the disease through symbolism using various shots with dark effects. (Splatting blood, Flowing water). Or we were thinking of basing it around a group of survivors that get in to trouble and need to get out fast. What will be your character types/social groups (how will you represent them?) (if no characters you must explain your reasoning and what you will shoot instead) We didn't intend on exploring a characters in our symbolic approach as we felt it would be too hard to give information about the character through symbolism so instead we would just see various people getting over run by zombies in different places to show it has effected everyone In our Linear OTS we were hoping to have a varied group of survivors, ie. a natural leader (probably sporty or in a career with high authority), a family, an intelligent person, a survivalist, and a few other less important characters. The leader will be represented as smart, level headed and seems very trustworthy, the family will be made seem vulnerable, with the dad looking to help in protecting the camp while the mother and children are left to help cook, clean and look out for zombies. The intelligent person will be portrayed as quite afraid, geeky and not suited for this environment however as the story went on, he would become braver and his intelligence will be valued by the group. The survivalist will be seen as very independent, strong and well suited for this environment, he will be very skilled with weapons and will have a good knowledge of survival skills. What are 3 similar and inspirational films that you can take inspiration from? For our symbolic OTS, We were looking to take inspiration from "The Walking Dead", "Dawn of The Dead" and "The Last of Us". For our linear OTS, We were looking to take inspiration from "I Am Legend", "Zombieland" and again, "The Walking Dead"
We Feel this is a very good piece of course work as it has a controlled use of camera (Camera is very steady), It had very good editing as they had two different shots put together as one to have 2 of the same people on screen. This is quite challenging as you have to keep the camera in the exact same position as even a slight nudge would make the shots not line up properly which again emphasises a controlled use of camera. The sound also matches the editing to create a very realistic, eery feel when there are flashing lights during the shots. We feel it lost marks as although there was variety of shots, there could have been more close ups to emphasise how the character was feeling.
