Epidemic
I am going to write what the story we’re going to create is going to be about. This might not be finished or finalised so anything with an asterisk will be where it is a questionable circumstance, this is going to be talked about in-depth and any communication will be listed below with each person in the group commenting on it. We’re going to introduce research below and implement this into the story. I’m going to lay out an idea of what the story should be like.
Characters
David - Male - Middle Aged - This character is the leader of the pack. He knows the way to keep survival at it’s best, having the mind to be the dictator in the group without having much of a problem. This goes along the lines of Rick being the dictator of the group that he is in on The Walking Dead, this goes quite familiar as each film has a main character which dictates everything.
Stacey - Female - Young - This character is the only opinionated one in the group, going upon the stereotype as being a teenager, this one runs the emotions through the group much more so than usual, this keeps the opinions live. I feel like this character is needed because it also creates a bit of a different relationship than it would with three males, having a female will create a different aspect to the plot.
Steve - Male - Young - This character has a romantic crush on Stacey, as this could also be a love story, Steve is going to get bit. This will create more of an enigma for Stacey when Steve is gone.
Unknown name - Male - Introduces the three characters to the story plot.
Plot
Based in England at year 2014, a zombie outbreak occurs from an airborne virus, the only ones that survive are the ones that are already immune to this infection. This is spread from some scientific marvel as a weaponised bacteria which turns people into infected. This is going to be based around 2 people who are close together who are not infected. We’re going to introduce this by opening the plot with a problem raised on the streets, this could be in a car.*
These three people are stranded, they’re all they’ve got, nobody else is around them. They go through paths to try and find resources to survive the epidemic, this is going to include killing of people who get in their way, and the affects that this gives on them. Distress is going to be caused by the weaker emotional people, this could be good for one or two characters within the three main characters that are going to be shown. Conflicts are going to begin between stray zombies and the zombies are going to also take a toll on these characters. They meet one more character* which gives them an objective. This objective is to get him and the everyone else to a safe centre, which is like a central for all survival. This is going to be a difficult path.
After the bloodshed and side-affects on the character, they get to an area which has spray painted objectives on it, telling that the central is a lie and that nobody should go if they want to survive, this might be a sign that they’re doing the wrong thing. As this world has no rules, anyone can do anything and no penalties apply, survival is the objective to this story. The conventions that are going to be used here in a zombie horror is that survival is key, getting bitten is going to end their lives as humans. As they get closer and resources get low, they need to find more food, so they go to extreme circumstances to go to shops where there are undead unable to get out, this creates a risk to the small team that they are.
2 minute clips starts here
Unfortunately, one person gets bit. This is a very distorting time for the team and it takes a long while to recooperate, the action begins by trying to get the zombie off the human, the action is really intense in this bit as they know things are going to be more difficult in the future. The trailer will show the death of the person and also show the zombie, giving the sequence to be intense.
They get to the central point where all the survival of humanity is, this is a good thing however a huge twist is applied to it, this is where a plot twist applies, having in-depth detail about the fact they start to see something wrong with the safe-point, showing that really, with the world being different, that their is actually no authority and that the gun is the most powerful thing in the world.
Ideas
Type down your label if you want to add an idea to the story.
Darren Stamp
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Callum Mitchell
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Tom Smith
-The two minute clip should start with the main character waking up after the outbreak has already happened. From here he will meet the other characters that are in the film and they will help him when he is first attacked. One is then bitten and the story continues from where it starts above.
Ellis Byrnes
- Within the two minute clip, it will be good to include as much dialogue as possible as this allows various camera angles to be used, which without dialogue many not be possible. An example of this would be the over the shoulder shot, usually used in conversation.
- I think that the character should start off alone, this would be good as it reflects the isolated world that is the zombie apocalypse, It would also be better to start the two minute clip without the use of zombies as this would allow the viewer to question the type of film they're watching and this may intrigue them to watch further.
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