Our first section of this 1.5 day production was to come up with a plan of attack and an escape route we would take if this zombie apocalypse was to happen in real life. I, unfortunately, didn't really think this was serious and kind of came up with a random selection of ways to kill all the zombie's, and my friends helped me...
After we completed our plan of attacks, we had to decide what sort of 'costume' we would partake in during the film. Zombie's, victims or directors; and I personally chose a victim. This was because I'm pretty sensitive to anything with artificial colours/flavours on my face, so I couldn't wear any make-up. I was pretty gutted, as I quite fancied being a zombie!
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| Zombie Apocalypse - fun plan |
We all made our way up to Plymouth Hoe; yes, all 50 of us, with 25 of us looking like full on Zombie's. The looks we were getting from the public were absolutely brilliant. Thankfully, the weather seemed to be on our side, it was mild and overcast but suited the mood and atmosphere for our shoot just fine.
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| Joe, Kim, Chloe & Charlie |
When we reached Plymouth Hoe, we were split in to 6 mini groups to each film our own scene for the final mass edit we would be doing on Wednesday. With this, it was a better way to get more footage, and we would interlink groups together during editing. With just 90 minutes to film our mini scene, which had to be at least 2 minutes long, we had a lot of work to do. I worked with my colleagues Naomi Doddridge, Chloe Binding, Tyler Sinclair, Jess Mitchell-Fowle, Abi Cannings, Simon Childe and Matthew Jury. We began to film near the lighthouse, and really wanted to create a spooky atmosphere with this shoot, so we took things quite slowly in terms of camera angles and scene lengths.
Our footage took the full 90 minutes to film, as we were given 2 main rules which we had to complete. The first rule was that we had to have a shot of a newspaper just gushing in the wind, and the second rule was we had to have the finishing scene shot in an enclosed environment, as if the victim was trapped and couldn't leave, just like a real horror film!
Our footage was finally complete, and after we had filmed our individual groups, the whole of the class came together in one mass zombie gathering at the end, completing a number of different scenes which would be included in our own final edit. These shots consisted of a number of different concepts, in which all the zombies would walk together towards the camera, and another using a GoPro, which ended up as a mass pile of zombies on top of Matt.
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| Final group shot - behind the scenes |
The shots above are taken from the making of the final shots which involved all the zombie's creating a group shot. It was absolutely hilarious being on this side of the camera and watching them all act - they were brilliant. Round of applause to the zombie's!
When it came to editing, myself and my colleagues; Matt Jury, Naomi Doddridge and Chloe Binding all decided to chip in and complete a group edit. This would save time for all of us, as we feel they would've been pretty similar had we have edited our own individual productions.
We chose to make the whole production black and white as this would create the correct atmosphere needed for the zombie technique. Before we began editing, we were given the soundtrack which would go over all of the sound of the production. There were points in this where it was slow pacing, and other points that were a lot faster. Our challenge was to synchronise the soundtrack with the footage, ensuring the theme of the sound would match the pace of the video.
In my opinion, I think our edit went really well. There are a few points, that looking back on, I would change. The section from 0.20-1.05 went on for a little too long, and should've perhaps had some cutaways of scenery around. However, with only 90 minutes to film, it was quite tricky to get everything spot on. My favourite part of our personal edit is the section at the end, when we see Tyler and Jess running from the zombie's into a dead end, and the camera is cutting from them to the group of zombie's.
I really enjoyed this production and hope we do something vaguely similar in the future. This time around, I would love to be the equivalent to a zombie as opposed to the victim!
Cheerio. :o)
- Olivia.
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