Joseph Marshall Media Evaluation

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11/4/2011 Change of Name

We decided to change the name of the film, from 'Z day', to 'ZOMG.'

The reason we changed it, is because there are other films called 'Z day' and we don't want there to be any confusion. Plus we think 'ZOMG' is a much better name.

ZOMG Storyboard

Interview Questions

Location Photos.

Dawn of the Dead opening sequence analysis

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Risk Assessment

Treatment FULL FILM

Treatment (Updated 11/04/11)

Whole film: ZOMG

Target audience: 15 – 20 year olds, males.

The certificate of the film is a 15, so that is the age and upwards of people we are trying to appeal to. Males will watch this film more than females because males like Zombie films more.
The film appeals to Young males but over the age of 15. Other films like this one:
28 days later...
dawn of the dead ...



The film opens to a small group of characters inside a woods looking for a missing person.

The characters find the missing person has become a zombie, which then attacks them and the numbers, obviously, multiply as others are infected. The film then goes to the opening sequence.

After the sequence the plot turns to a character in York twenty four hours earlier, before z-day. The film will quickly play over the day with interruptions every so often of “breaking news” screens, interrupting the actual film until this characters plot is revealed and the story focus transfers to Joey. The opening ten to fifteen minutes will show the normal lives of the characters before they ultimately are separated. After a while trying to encourage help from the police who are all “busy” and the other emergency services (where the lines are busy). Giving up on the authorities they decide to search for their friends themselves, finding much of the city to be “quiet”  they decide to go to the river near Mikeys house where they used to play as children where the story first started and the owner of the land (the farmer) helps them search.

After the story is resumed from the opening sequence the characters are seen fighting the zombies, where it is assumed they were eaten and became zombies. The characters are seen searching the streets to find someone to tell, to spread the news to the authorities and the armed forces, finding no one on the streets they enhance further into the town and focus on searching for their relatives.

Roaming the streets they begin to hear sirens coming from the centre of town, as they near the fire engine they see it is wrecked and the sound has gathered surrounding zombies, who upon hearing Joey and Harry behind them begin to turn and chase them, some running at great speed to assault them. After escaping the characters realise loud noises attract the creatures and decide to travel the back alleys to reach their separate destinations, as they travel together through the alleys they hear a woman crying for help, they find her and try to quiet her before the zombies arrive, upon finding her they realise its too late as she’s surrounded and they stand helpless as they watch her pulled apart by the zombies, a child found crying hiding behind a bin near the woman is found by the characters, Joey lifts the girl and carries her on his back.

As the three characters find their houses they realise their families are dead, the houses are burning and zombies are screaming and groaning from inside. They proceed to the police station which is barricaded and riot shields are nailed with wood to the windows. The police are taking in survivors and using the helicopter to transport them to the hospital and “secure facilities” as they are told by the superintendant who lets them in, however after entering the four policeman (inc. The superintendant) are the only survivors, they have been driven mad by the zombies, ensuring their own survival by slaughtering the other policemen and eating their flesh (the irony being they are avoiding becoming zombies, by acting as them).

Joey and the child escape on the helicopter used by the “police” to “bring in” their next meal but Harry is shot and killed by the policemen and Joey is shot and severely wounded, hiding his wound from the child as they take the helicopter away to a hospital further south where the infection has yet to spread. He manages to fly her there and ensure her safety before succumbing to blood loss and collapsing as the hospital staff try to save him. The camera cranes up from the shot of his body to reveal the carnage spreading slowly from the north to the south of England. The credits roll. 

Shot list

SHOT LIST
The film opens to a long low angled shot of Joey, Harry and the Farmer walking
medium shot of Harry in the foreground with Joey visible over his left shoulder as they talk to the farmer
shot over Harry’s left shoulder from behind him
close up of the farmers face
medium long shot of Harry,Farmer and Joey
low angled shot of the characters faces as they stare into the blood
zooms in on them then changes to the image of the blood on the floor and zooms into it, following the trail to mikey and pausing for a second.
The shot reverses over Mikeys shoulder, showing the blood from his mouth and the blood stain on his shirt
low angled shot of mikeys face over harrys right shoulder.
long shot from behind the zombies showing the characters are surrounded by them.
close up of the farmer
medium shot from waist of farmer
shot from the end of the barrel of his gun as he aims at the zombies.
shot changes to show the zombies running to assault him
It then changes to a shot from their sides as they are running
the camera follows Joeys movement
long shot over his shoulder of the zombies approaching..


Scene Change:
Upwards diagonal panning medium close up tracing the characters movement as he goes to the table
medium close up of character at table
Extreme Close up of character sat at the table with drink

(Research into Genre) Common Conventions of a horror, found at http://www.slideshare.net

Codes And Conventions Of A Horror - Presentation Transcript

1. Codes and Conventions of a Horror
2. Example of Horror Films
   • “ Psycho”- Psychological
   • “ The shining”- Psychological
   • “ The exorcist”- Religious
   • “ Wolf Creek”- True story
   • “ The Decent”- Monster/Gore
   • “ Saw”- Psychological- gore
   • “ Texas Chainsaw Massacre”- Gore
3. Horror film
   • Horror Films are unsettling films designed to;
   • Frighten and panic
   • Cause dread and alarm
   • Invoke our hidden worst fears
   • Captivate and entertain us in a cathartic experience.
   • Often conclude in a terrifying shocking Finale.
4. Fears created by horrors
   • For different types of audiences it can deal with our fears;
   • Nightmares
   • Our vulnerability
   • Alienation
   • Revulsions
   • Terror of the unknown
   • Fear of death
   • Loss of identity
   • Fear of sexuality
5. Characters
   • There's always a lead character, that often results as the survivor in the film.
   • The Killer/ monster often has a trademark characteristic in the way he kills, for example the people he kills or the weapon he uses to kill them.
   • Its usually good against evil, the two characters conflict.
   • The outcome is the good person always survives, or defeats the “bad guy.

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