Group 1

PITCH FOR OPENING TITLE

SEQUENCE

PRODUCTION COMPANY AND

LOGO

Epidemic Productions

o Name of film & why

o The scene will begin in the protagonist’s laboratory, with a spot light on where she

is conducting experiments and biopsies on the supposedly dead human. The

zombie will awaken whilst the scientist’s back is turned and attempt to attack. The

protagonist will leave the laboratory where the chase scene will begin through the

corridors. She will then attempt to find safety in a room, but struggles to access the

room due to a faulty key. The scientist gains entry to the room where she peers out

of a small window looking for the zombie. A passer-by will appear and be eaten by

the zombie. The scientist will then escape from the room and run towards some

double doors with the zombie chasing her. Both characters will exist through the

double doors with the scene ending there.

FILM SYNOPSIS

We will be establishing characters in our title sequence. Our scientist will be

established by their outfit, as they will be wearing a hazmat suit, along with rubber

gloves and safety goggles. Another way to establish this character will be how we

see that they are in the lab with a zombie which they presume to be dead. The

marks on the zombie will indicate the scientist has been experimenting on it.

OUTLINE OF OPENING

SEQUENCE

The genre and subgenre will also be established, from the start we

will be able to see that the film is a horror as we see the zombie

attack and also kill one of the scientists co-workers. The subgenre

of the film will also be known as the audience will be able to see

that the film is the beginning of a zombie horror.

OUTLINE OF OPENING

SEQUENCE

OPENING OF OPENING

SEQUENCE (2)

Film opening ideas

360 degree angle- show that the scientist (Gabriella) is alone in the room, but on the third 360 you will see her co-worker walk past the window in the door.

The scientist will look at the door and we will have a POV shot, with the camera shaking slightly so that the audience can sympathise with the character as they will see how scared she is.

During the chase scene we will use a track so that we can steadily follow the characters who are running.

When the scientist turns their back on the zombie at the beginning of the scene, slowly we will zoom into the zombies face. It will stop at an extreme close up of the zombies eyes, which is when they will open to display the zombies frightening eyes as we will be using coloured contacts.

In the scene we will see different laboratory equipment such as tools to experiment with and chemicals that you would expect to see in a lab.

The makeup that will be used in the opening will be the zombie makeup, this will include fake blood.

We will be displaying our titles right at the beginning as there will be a

sequence where we film parts of the lab, for example rows of beakers

containing different coloured liquids which represent the chemicals in the

laboratory, and preservation containers, the contents of which may be small

parts or either human or animal body parts.

The titles will consist of the cast, and anyone else who has helped within the

production.

The fonts that we will use will probably be quite grungy for bits such as the

title of the film, however for smaller texts such as the cast we may use a

simpler font such as Arial as this text will be smaller, hence being harder to

read.

USE OF TITLES

After extensive research in target audiences of horror movies which have been

in cinema in the past two years we see that the majority of people who go to

the cinema are aged 7-24 this age group makes up a 47% of total admissions

of the 165 million cinema tickets sold in the UK.

Then we narrowed it down using other horror movies as examples which have

been released recently like ‘Annabelle’ and ‘As above, So below’ which both

had their target audience set as 15-24 males.

TARGET AUDIENCE

MARKET FIT

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The Film ‘Zombieland’ contains zombie chase scenes.

This particular scene is similar to the part in our

opening scene where our scientist is being chased by

the Zombie

This is not just included in Zombieland, Zombie chase scenes can be seen in a

majority of Zombie films. Therefore our target audience would be similar to

the target audience of other Zombie films.

However our film has a Unique Selling Point. Our USP is that most zombie

films do not show how the Outbreak of zombies started. They just start in the

middle of the outbreak when there are a few survivors. This gives our film

something different to others.

MARKET FIT

o Location: The scene will begin in a science lab (classroom) and then go out

into the corridor.

o Props: Costumes for scientist and zombie like human, beakers full of

coloured water, jars full of preserved bits and bobs, experimental

equipment/tools, coloured contacts for zombie and fake blood.

o Technical equipment: a camera, a tripod, lighting equipment.

RESOURCES

Gabriella – Scientist (Lead Protagonist)

We will require a hazmat suit, rubber gloves and safety goggles.

Primary Zombie

We will use make-up and other special effects to make the zombie look like a

cold body, which has been dead for a long period of time and other surgical

marks to show the experiments

Scientist’s Co-worker (Second Zombie)

This character will start as a regular scientist with a white coat, but will be

savagely attacked by the first zombie. Near the end of the scene we will

replicate the first zombies make-up but to a minor degree because the

character has been dead much longer. Also this character will exhibit bite

marks which we will make with special effect make-up

CAST REQUIREMENTS

o Director: Samuel Medhanye

o Producer:

o Production Design: Gabriella Pal

o Camera Person: Leonie Charlton

o Editor: Cameron Legister

PRODUCTION GROUP ROLES

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

Proposal, Pre-Production and

pitch prep

Group Production Pitch

Filming

Filming

Editing

Editing and Evaluation

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Leonie, Cameron, Samuel and Gabriella