Props

• 2 White T-Shirts

• Fake blood

• Digital Clock

• Knife

Equipment:

• Tape
• Camera
• Tripod
• Mac

Costume

The costume was probably one of the most important factors to create the sense of verisimilitude within the film opening. We decided to go with the typical zombie survivors costume that is a regular theme within most zombie films. Torn shirts, with blood stains and blood stains on the faces of the characters.

It was easy enough to create the costume, all we did was got some cheap plain t-shirts, covered them in fake blood and dirtied them with shoe polish and then tore them up with a pair of scissors. The costume is very effective, and was very easy to create even with a low budget.

Both characters also wore jeans as part of the costume, this was because it would create verisimilitude, as they were just 'everyday people' before the zombie infection spreaded.

The reason for having plain white t-shirts was because, it links in with Propp's theory of the hero characters to be dressed in light clothing.

Storyboard

Initial Planning for our Film Opening

Our initial ideas where to be different from the rest of the group. We had been studying film noir style films and analysing them to gain inspiration and ideas for our own film openings.

Most of the class had decided to follow what we had been learning and to base their own film openings on film noir style. However, we decided to be unique from them and go with zombie/horror/thriller.

Some ideas that we had at the beginning were two male survivors left, and they were taking refuge in a house from the zombies. The male characters were significant so that the audience can realise there is no chance of re populating the earth.

Another idea was to start the opening at the end of the film, to build enigma to what has already happened in the story.

We had also considered the lighting for our film opening which typically in a horror/thriller is dark and shadowy.

Film Openings - Ideas from other films

- 28 Days Later -

28 Days Later is a post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction film. It is about zombies taking over the world with only a few survivors left alive.

This is a great film to gain ideas from for our film opening as our film opening follows the same story line as 28 Days Later, with only two survivors left on earth, the rest of the population being zombies.