Tuesday 29 March 2011
Final Film - Dawn of the Zombie
This is the final edit of our film, incorporating the music we also made on GarageBand.
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Lighting was a bit off
some shot in classroom
Some shots don't flow very well
Monday 14 March 2011
Evaluation Questions - 1 (George Peat)
What did you make, who did you work with and where did the original idea come from?
Our team (Me, George Evans and Callam Montgomery) is going to make a zombie film entitled 'Dawn of the Zombie'. We were inspired to make a zombie film via it being our favourite sub genre in the horror genre since it can be seen as a lot more believable than other areas such as vampires, were wolves, monsters etc; especially when put into a modern day setting in common environments. Our favourite zombie films are those by George A Romero, the Dawn of the Dead remake by Zach Snyder and 28 Days Later by Danny Boyle. We tried to show aspects of these films in our own, via the use of gorey make up and running zombies. Another film which we could have aspects from is Alien by Ridley Scott since we have a tough female lead. We researched the zombie sub genre on IMBD and looked at who views this type of film (young adult males mostly) and decided to combat this by making the lead female so that the film would attract female viewers.
Our production has gone well with each member contributing well in numerous areas, whether it is directing, editing, sound production, casting, or other areas. Our cast at first consisted of friends Rachael, Chris, Ewan, Rosie, Aeli-Mai and Nay; however our first shoot did not look well when put on screen due to bad framing and a few other factors so we refilmed. The original cast (apart from ewan) was not able to make the filming date so we used a completely new set of actors/actresses to re film and massively improve on what we first made.
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
This intro represents the sort of gore and zombies we wanted. But not the filming style.
Our team (Me, George Evans and Callam Montgomery) is going to make a zombie film entitled 'Dawn of the Zombie'. We were inspired to make a zombie film via it being our favourite sub genre in the horror genre since it can be seen as a lot more believable than other areas such as vampires, were wolves, monsters etc; especially when put into a modern day setting in common environments. Our favourite zombie films are those by George A Romero, the Dawn of the Dead remake by Zach Snyder and 28 Days Later by Danny Boyle. We tried to show aspects of these films in our own, via the use of gorey make up and running zombies. Another film which we could have aspects from is Alien by Ridley Scott since we have a tough female lead. We researched the zombie sub genre on IMBD and looked at who views this type of film (young adult males mostly) and decided to combat this by making the lead female so that the film would attract female viewers.
Our production has gone well with each member contributing well in numerous areas, whether it is directing, editing, sound production, casting, or other areas. Our cast at first consisted of friends Rachael, Chris, Ewan, Rosie, Aeli-Mai and Nay; however our first shoot did not look well when put on screen due to bad framing and a few other factors so we refilmed. The original cast (apart from ewan) was not able to make the filming date so we used a completely new set of actors/actresses to re film and massively improve on what we first made.
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
This intro represents the sort of gore and zombies we wanted. But not the filming style.
Our title shot for Dawn of the Zombie.
A screen shot from one of our inspirations 28 Days Later, the chase scenes were a major inspiration
Evaluation questions part 2 George Evans
6. Before being distributed, our film would have it's first screening at a film festival, Our film would likely be distributed independantly, or by a small company, an example of this is a film called 'Colin', about a zombie apocalypse, the film reputably cost only £45 to make, and recieved mixed reviews by critics, it was distributed by a small independant film company called 'nowhere fast productions, this is run however by the people who made the film though.
Our film would almost certainly not be distributed by a high profile company, for example, 28 days later - a film with a much larger budget was distributed by 20th century Fox uk, a company that deals with a wide range of different genres, Our film would be shown at a UK film festival such as Bang short film festival in Nottingham.
They show short independent films such as ours every year, the films are usually low budget, however the website claims that some directors who have shown their films at bang! have gone on to become successful.
Another, and probably more likely possibility is the mayhem film festival, which is more horror-oriented, which would be better suited to our film. the festival is also relatively local, being in Nottingham.
8. whilst working on our first film, we had the basic outline of what we had to do, and we spend a great deal of time carefully storyboarding the project, however when we came to film it, we made a number of mistakes, mainly in the form of jump cuts and continuity errors, and at one point, breaking the 180 degree rule, the film was however a highly positive learning expierience, and it helped us a great deal when designing our actual film, there are noticeable similarities between our original film, and our final film, we chose to keep the parts that our peers responded to positively
The original film lacks music, and the sound quality is broken, in contrast to the new film, which contains a soundtrack carefully put together to create an eerie and tense atmosphere.
The camerawork on our new film is steadier and has smoother motion during pans, we had to shoot twice, as our first shoot was unsatisfactory, although this was disapointing, it did give us an opportunity to recieve some feedback from our peers and teachers that we put to use when correcting the film during our second shoot, for instance ommiting swearing, and a punch sequence which caused people to laugh.
In this scene, our lead actress swears, however we felt this was more tasteful, so it made the final cut.
If we were to do the production again, we would likely spend more time planning the script, as the finished product is eventful, but required a great amount of filler in the middle in order to fill up a boring part of the storyboard which consisted mainly of running.
The final edit still contains a large segment of running, however we felt the fast paced music combined with multiple fast cuts from different angles and perspectives would keep the film interesting.
9.(George Evans)
My contribution to the process during the planning was completing the majority of the storyboard after reading the script written by Callam and George Peat, researching existing zombie horror films target demographic and the types of codes and conventions associated with our genre, I also researched the costumes worn by actors in these films.
- The original model for our zombie costumes, found on google images
During production I provided an actor and fake blood to be worn by the actors, I helped apply the fake blood, I along with Callam and George Peat took turns directing and filming.
During post production I have mainly been working on the soundtrack, being aided by Callam who is working on the editing.
Our lead actress. she was cast due to her short hair, which
we felt challenged the dominant ideology of how a woman
should look, this was perfect for her character.
A zombie attacks our lead actor, note the look of surprise
our lead actor is devoured by zombies, the fake blood looks
quite realistic in this scene
They show short independent films such as ours every year, the films are usually low budget, however the website claims that some directors who have shown their films at bang! have gone on to become successful.
Another, and probably more likely possibility is the mayhem film festival, which is more horror-oriented, which would be better suited to our film. the festival is also relatively local, being in Nottingham.
here is an example of a typical film being shown at the festival
The original film lacks music, and the sound quality is broken, in contrast to the new film, which contains a soundtrack carefully put together to create an eerie and tense atmosphere.
The camerawork on our new film is steadier and has smoother motion during pans, we had to shoot twice, as our first shoot was unsatisfactory, although this was disapointing, it did give us an opportunity to recieve some feedback from our peers and teachers that we put to use when correcting the film during our second shoot, for instance ommiting swearing, and a punch sequence which caused people to laugh.
In this scene, our lead actress swears, however we felt this was more tasteful, so it made the final cut.
If we were to do the production again, we would likely spend more time planning the script, as the finished product is eventful, but required a great amount of filler in the middle in order to fill up a boring part of the storyboard which consisted mainly of running.
9.(George Evans)
My contribution to the process during the planning was completing the majority of the storyboard after reading the script written by Callam and George Peat, researching existing zombie horror films target demographic and the types of codes and conventions associated with our genre, I also researched the costumes worn by actors in these films.
During production I provided an actor and fake blood to be worn by the actors, I helped apply the fake blood, I along with Callam and George Peat took turns directing and filming.
During post production I have mainly been working on the soundtrack, being aided by Callam who is working on the editing.
we felt challenged the dominant ideology of how a woman
should look, this was perfect for her character.
quite realistic in this scene
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