Pre-Production Overview (Screenplay, shot list, Animatic etc...). DRFT
Pre-production points
Characters:
Extraneous points:
- Main protagonist - Danny Romero - Intertextualising genre directors (Danny Boyle, George A Romero)
- Love interest - Mia Jones
- Best friend - Fred East - intertextualises Fred West, a serial killer
- 3 to 4 zombies
Extraneous points:
- Cornetto trilogy + Shaun of the dead - Cornetto ice cream, like in Shaun of the dead
- Shallow focus (zombie eating body from far away)
- decaying title
- slow zombie movement type, unlike 28 days later
Liquid Latex Zombie Make Up
I’ve been looking into zombie make up and ways to create a convincing look for the zombies in our film opening.
One of the products our teacher generously got us was liquid latex. However none of the members of our group have experience with liquid latex so I’ve looked into how to use it and what effects can be done using it.
1 video I liked, for the tutorial as well as the end effect.
The video:
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So knowing how to use the product, I will try and test it on the people who are going to be zombies as it will work differently on different people, as far as how much to use as it will last longer time periods, and it may need a thicker layer as it may not show as well, especially when on the face.
It is important we get it right as if the zombies look bad it will clearly look fake and a lot of the effect is lost. Therefor the more practice we get the better as there is a lot of pressure on the zombie look.
One of the products our teacher generously got us was liquid latex. However none of the members of our group have experience with liquid latex so I’ve looked into how to use it and what effects can be done using it.
1 video I liked, for the tutorial as well as the end effect.
The video:
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So knowing how to use the product, I will try and test it on the people who are going to be zombies as it will work differently on different people, as far as how much to use as it will last longer time periods, and it may need a thicker layer as it may not show as well, especially when on the face.
It is important we get it right as if the zombies look bad it will clearly look fake and a lot of the effect is lost. Therefor the more practice we get the better as there is a lot of pressure on the zombie look.
Pre production Zombie Make up
THIS WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED BY SPIKEY FILMS
Our film opening is going to be a zom-rom-com, meaning we need to plan a look for our zombie characters. It is important we get this look correct to obtain verisimilitude. Our plan is for our zombie to have white eyes (to show they aren't alive), several wounds/cuts across the face, white face, ripped/dirty clothes and then covered in blood. This style is inspired by the zombies in Shaun of the Dead. They are all wearing normal clothing, however its all hanging off them as if it was unnatural. The close up of Nick Frost, you can see his face has been covered in white powder/paint to show the character is lifeless. We have ordered white contact lenses from amazon to create the same effect as Shaun of the Dead. We have blood capsules as well, meaning we would be able to create a similar effect to what is going on around Nick Frost's mouth.
Liquid latex - we ordered some to create any disfigured sections of the zombies face.
Equipment to create scars/cuts - we have been practicing creating realistic cuts. On the right is an image of some practice cuts I have done on my arm (using glue, makeup and pens).
White make-up - we have access to makeup that could be applied to the face to create the dead look.
Fake blood - could be applied to face or clothing
Contact lenses - we have ordered 2 pairs of white contact lenses.
We haven't made any specific plans for clothing yet, however preferably baggy clothing that can be covered in blood. The point is for it to look like the zombies have been turned immediately from their normal self to a zombie, which is why they would be dressed in clothing that they would usually wear.
Once again, inspired by Shaun of the Dead. We chose to go for a slow zombie because we felt it would be easily distinguishable between the zombies and the normal characters. For example if our characters, Donnie, Fred or Mia, are running away, the comedy would be in the style of the slow walk.
Similar to the sounds above, the generic zombie noise would work well for our scene, as it has been used in several zombie movies before.
Zombie Character
Our film opening is going to be a zom-rom-com, meaning we need to plan a look for our zombie characters. It is important we get this look correct to obtain verisimilitude. Our plan is for our zombie to have white eyes (to show they aren't alive), several wounds/cuts across the face, white face, ripped/dirty clothes and then covered in blood. This style is inspired by the zombies in Shaun of the Dead. They are all wearing normal clothing, however its all hanging off them as if it was unnatural. The close up of Nick Frost, you can see his face has been covered in white powder/paint to show the character is lifeless. We have ordered white contact lenses from amazon to create the same effect as Shaun of the Dead. We have blood capsules as well, meaning we would be able to create a similar effect to what is going on around Nick Frost's mouth.
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| My practice cuts |
Liquid latex - we ordered some to create any disfigured sections of the zombies face.
Equipment to create scars/cuts - we have been practicing creating realistic cuts. On the right is an image of some practice cuts I have done on my arm (using glue, makeup and pens).
White make-up - we have access to makeup that could be applied to the face to create the dead look.
Fake blood - could be applied to face or clothing
Contact lenses - we have ordered 2 pairs of white contact lenses.
Clothing
We haven't made any specific plans for clothing yet, however preferably baggy clothing that can be covered in blood. The point is for it to look like the zombies have been turned immediately from their normal self to a zombie, which is why they would be dressed in clothing that they would usually wear.
Walk
Once again, inspired by Shaun of the Dead. We chose to go for a slow zombie because we felt it would be easily distinguishable between the zombies and the normal characters. For example if our characters, Donnie, Fred or Mia, are running away, the comedy would be in the style of the slow walk.
Sound
Similar to the sounds above, the generic zombie noise would work well for our scene, as it has been used in several zombie movies before.
Pre Production Zombie make up, liquid Latex
Following the liquid Latex post, now I have an understanding of how to use the product I did follow up research about what effects you could create with it.
Our teacher had said that one of the key aspects, that will perfect our ruin our film opening, is the zombie make up. So we want to have the challenge but we don't want to go over board or get too ambitious because we don't want to ruin the piece.
Now the first three do look cool, however they do raise questions regarding the issues they may cause. This first being whether it is possible for either myself or our group as a whole to create something to this standard, or even learn to produce something to a similar quality in the amount of time we have until we start to film the opening. The second is if this is possibly too much for our target audience, referring mainly to the middle example. We don't to loose are target audience by either loosing their interest and not appealing to our primary audience or having the scenario where a group such as the BBFC to raise the age limit on the film similar to This is England(Obviously this can't happen however we will treat this dilemma as if it could). If this were to happen it would cause a polysemic reading instead of anchoring the preferred reading.
However if we pulled the look off I think it would perfect our piece
Star Trek
Indiana Jones
Sherlock
Breaking Bad
Shaun of the Dead
Phone
Glasses
Spare glasses
Pocket knife
Can opener
Pens
Straight cut blue jeans - thrifted - slightly worn/faded
Glasses - taking them off and wiping them as nervous tic - helps with not seeing
Possible button up over tee
White high tops
Possible long black trench coat
Diner
Game Store
Home
Milkshakes
Monsters
Hot dogs
Pizza
Love interest
Works at blockbusters
Really good at darts
Wears a Rick and Morty T-shirt
Plays video games
Has junk food and empty cartons etc.
To connote working at Blockbusters - name tag / card
Blockbuster movies
CD - possibly use as coaster or plate
Empty cans
Cigarettes
Opening baked beans with pocket knife
Box TV with playstation 2
Set in this day and age but has all old gadgets
DVD player - Dawn of the Dead / George A. Romero DVDs
Link DVD - in Halloween playing movie at start - Scream played Halloween movie
Triple hybrid rom-com-zom
Around 18 years old
Attractive - male gaze
Named Mia
Binary opposition to Donnie
Badass, very dominant and confident (countertypical)
Doesn't let her guard down in opening
Wears athletic, tight clothing (like Lara Croft)
Black tight dress (to obtain male gaze)
Black leather jacket
Love interest
18 years old
Inspiration from Zombieland
The Vow
The Notebook
World War Z
Dawn of the Dead
Machete
Pistol
Pocket knife
Boots
Black skinny high waisted jeans
White vest top, slightly cropped, rip by the neck
London
Paris
Tokyo
Singapore
Has a guilty pleasure for chicken wings
Water with lemon and cucumber
Coffee
In the beginning, we took inspiration from the character Wichita in the movie Zombieland, played by Emma Stone. We were going to have Mia Jones dressed in a plain white, slightly baggy, V-neck top with a black leather jacket, blue ripped jeans and black flat boots.
Our teacher had said that one of the key aspects, that will perfect our ruin our film opening, is the zombie make up. So we want to have the challenge but we don't want to go over board or get too ambitious because we don't want to ruin the piece.
These are some examples I looked at:
Now the first three do look cool, however they do raise questions regarding the issues they may cause. This first being whether it is possible for either myself or our group as a whole to create something to this standard, or even learn to produce something to a similar quality in the amount of time we have until we start to film the opening. The second is if this is possibly too much for our target audience, referring mainly to the middle example. We don't to loose are target audience by either loosing their interest and not appealing to our primary audience or having the scenario where a group such as the BBFC to raise the age limit on the film similar to This is England(Obviously this can't happen however we will treat this dilemma as if it could). If this were to happen it would cause a polysemic reading instead of anchoring the preferred reading.
However if we pulled the look off I think it would perfect our piece
These examples on the other hand are more likely to be our influence towards creating our own zombies, although they are likely to be extremely similar to this. As a group we prefer this kind of look because of the higher focus on the make up yet effectively using the liquid latex to create wounds that help make the zombies look realistic without an expensive amount of make up.
The example on the right is the make up for Nick Frost in Shaun of the Dead, which is the main influence of our piece and therefor the influence of this zombie make up intertextualises Shaun of the Dead
However the challenge for this is either over doing the make up or under doing the make up as it won't show on screen or it will show unclose and look terrible
COSTUME + MAKEUP
I put together a slide show of the topics covered, meaning the points specifically about the zombie makeup our group talked about with our teacher and the improvements and additional points that were discussed thereafter, I will go over them in depth underneath.
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DONNIE ROMERO
FILMS/TV
Star WarsStar Trek
Indiana Jones
Sherlock
Breaking Bad
Shaun of the Dead
GADGETS
Watch (cassio digital)Phone
Glasses
Spare glasses
Pocket knife
Can opener
Pens
ITEMS OF CLOTHING
Graphic teeStraight cut blue jeans - thrifted - slightly worn/faded
Glasses - taking them off and wiping them as nervous tic - helps with not seeing
Possible button up over tee
White high tops
Possible long black trench coat
PLACES HE'S BEEN TO
LibraryDiner
Game Store
Home
FOODS/DRINKS THEY LIKE
SlushiesMilkshakes
Monsters
Hot dogs
Pizza
RANDOM FURTHER DETAILS
Only childLove interest
Works at blockbusters
Really good at darts
EXTRA NOTES
Impact on comedy to bring BBFC rating down to a 15 from an 18Wears a Rick and Morty T-shirt
Plays video games
Has junk food and empty cartons etc.
To connote working at Blockbusters - name tag / card
Blockbuster movies
CD - possibly use as coaster or plate
Empty cans
Cigarettes
Opening baked beans with pocket knife
Box TV with playstation 2
Set in this day and age but has all old gadgets
DVD player - Dawn of the Dead / George A. Romero DVDs
Link DVD - in Halloween playing movie at start - Scream played Halloween movie
Triple hybrid rom-com-zom
MIA JONES
FemaleAround 18 years old
Attractive - male gaze
Named Mia
Binary opposition to Donnie
Badass, very dominant and confident (countertypical)
Doesn't let her guard down in opening
Wears athletic, tight clothing (like Lara Croft)
Black tight dress (to obtain male gaze)
Black leather jacket
Love interest
18 years old
Inspiration from Zombieland
FILMS/TV
Dear JohnThe Vow
The Notebook
World War Z
Dawn of the Dead
GADGETS
PhoneMachete
Pistol
Pocket knife
ITEM OF CLOTHING
Leather jacketBoots
Black skinny high waisted jeans
White vest top, slightly cropped, rip by the neck
PLACES SHE'S BEEN TO
Los AngelesLondon
Paris
Tokyo
Singapore
FOODS/DRINKS THEY LIKE
Any kind of saladHas a guilty pleasure for chicken wings
Water with lemon and cucumber
Coffee
In the beginning, we took inspiration from the character Wichita in the movie Zombieland, played by Emma Stone. We were going to have Mia Jones dressed in a plain white, slightly baggy, V-neck top with a black leather jacket, blue ripped jeans and black flat boots.
INSPIRATIONS
Now we have changed up her outfit a bit for a bit more male gaze, a theory by Laura Mulvey (you can see my other post about this here). We took some inspiration from the musician PJ Harvey. She often wears a dress or skirt with some boots. The dress looks exactly the same as this with the slight slit on the left thigh. The length was inspired by the PJ Harvey dresses. It's going to be quite cold so Emma will wear skin coloured tights underneath. We will also have her wearing some black boots and a khaki thin jacket. It has a smaller collar than the one in this picture and it's slightly more cropped.EDDIE PEGG
Location finding
These are some videos of possible areas to film, in our film opening, however it is not necessarily going to be filmed in these locations, this is just part of the pre production.
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Benefits of Filming-
- Space to film in
-Lots of mise en scene already available
Disadvantages of Filming-
- Lots of removal in order to place correct props and create mise en scene, as to get preferred reading
- Not the best as far as social class, it doesn't fit the middle class stereotype
- awkward for group members to get too
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Benefits of Filming-
- Space to film in
-Lots of mise en scene already available
- has mirrors we wanted for certain camera angle
Disadvantages of Filming-
- awkward removal of items in order to place correct props and create mise en scene, as to get preferred reading
- Not the best as far as social class, it doesn't fit the middle class stereotype
- awkward for group members to get too
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Benefits of Filming-
-Lots of mise en scene already available
- fits the social class
Disadvantages of Filming-
- not a lot of space to film
- challenge to avoid filming balcony window
- awkward for group members to get too
LIVING ROOM
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Benefits of Filming-
- Space to film in
-Lots of mise en scene already available
Disadvantages of Filming-
- Lots of removal in order to place correct props and create mise en scene, as to get preferred reading
- Not the best as far as social class, it doesn't fit the middle class stereotype
- awkward for group members to get too
BATHROOM
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Benefits of Filming-
- Space to film in
-Lots of mise en scene already available
- has mirrors we wanted for certain camera angle
Disadvantages of Filming-
- awkward removal of items in order to place correct props and create mise en scene, as to get preferred reading
- Not the best as far as social class, it doesn't fit the middle class stereotype
- awkward for group members to get too
KITCHEN
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Benefits of Filming-
-Lots of mise en scene already available
- fits the social class
Disadvantages of Filming-
- not a lot of space to film
- challenge to avoid filming balcony window
- awkward for group members to get too
Pre production Location Scouting
(This post was originally made by Spikey Films)
These are some pictures Spikey Films contributed to the group as possible locations for filming our Film Opening.
BATHROOM
LIVING ROOM
KITCHEN
Pre Production Location Scouting 2
PRE-PRODUCTION Location scouting 2
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VIDEO
ADDITIONAL NOTES
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Video Games
Pocket Knife
Baked Beans
XBOX360
Plates
Glasses
Towel
Graphic Tee
XBOX Controllers
Graphic Tee
Empty Cans
Toaster
DVDs
ADDITIONAL NOTES
- The Shaun of the Dead scene i'm referencing (from around 40 seconds)
- I was thinking of having Donnie not seeing the zombie rather than him seeing it as there would be no reason for him to think it is normal like how they think the zombie is just a drunk guy in Shaun of the Dead.
- The field is very long so it wouldn't need to be very obvious.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
- The construction work there should hopefully be done by the time we film.
- I think that the cul de sac is a good place to have a car as it won't block anyone trying to get past.
- The 'dead body' coming out of the car could have a zombie attacking it, but then we would need to think about how our protagonist wouldn't see it.
- We could use the front of the house on the end as Donnie Romero's home (but probably not the inside as it doesn't have what we want.
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This is a list of some of the props we are planning on using in our Film opening, these will help anchor the preferred reading
This is a list of some of the props we are planning on using in our Film opening, these will help anchor the preferred reading
Video Games
Pocket Knife
Baked Beans
Scene 1
- Wakes up on sofa - snoring and drooling
- Playing movie in protagonists messy living room
- Not showing protagonist immediately (narrative enigma)
- Playing Scream / Halloween / Dawn of the Dead / Shaun of the Dead
- Opening Baked Beans can with pocket knife and eating them cold
- Wakes up and eats last nights food
Emma's living room
Props
Baked beans
Pocket knife
Video games (PS3)
CD's
Empty energy drink cans
Burnt toast/open butter/jam with knife/mould
Mr Burrowes t-shirts
Plates or glasses
Kruger rand money
empty cigarette packet
Characters
Donnie
Costumes
Graphic T-shirt (rick and morty)
Short Shorts
Odd socks
Possible slippers
Scene2
- Protagonist in shower
- Pans from feet to head (cuts in between)
- Oblivious to zombies in bathroom
- Dropping shampoo bottle knocking out zombie
- Slipping and kicking zombie killing it
- Possible shower singing scene for comedic effect
Location
Someones shower
Props
Shower gel (sporty) - nearly empty
Liquid latex
Fake blood
Glasses
towel
overflowing laundry
overflowing laundry
Characters
Zombies
Donnie
Costume
ripped up t-shirt
Contact lenses
Ripped up sweatpants
Scene 3
- Getting ready scene
- Quick shots like in Shaun of the Dead
- Brushing teeth
- Going to toilet
- Putting on glasses
- Getting dressed
- Putting on badge for blockbuster store
Location
Bathroom
Props
Run out toothpaste
Middle class Toothbrush
Glasses
towel
Badge for work
Costume
creased shirt
Smart trousers
Name tag
Glasses
Black Smart shoes
White visible socks
Characters
Zombie
Scene 4
- Walking out of house with headphones on looking out phone
- Not looking around
- Sees girl ahead (love interest) trying to tell him theres a zombie behind him
- False scare - hand on shoulder
- Turns out to be the best friend character who pushes him out the way
- Shouts 'get in car'
- Pulls dead body out revealing title on floor
Locations
Emma's house
Props
Wired Headphones
iPhone 5
Microsoft phone
liquid latex
fake blood
car
Costume
Same costume for Donnie as previously
Fred - cool friend, Black trench coat, Black trousers, smart shoes, Black socks, Black shirt
Hair gel
Cigarettes
Mia Jones - white vest, black leather jacket, blue jeans, hair in ponytail
Characters
2 zombies
1 dead person
Donnie
Mia
Fred
Extra notes
Dialogue can often be clunky
Dates
Practice shoot - 10/01/2020 - 12/01/2020
First shooting day - 19/01/2020
Second shooting day - 26/01/2020 in
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