This post contains screenshots from various recordings showing the actors and props that are used in our main task, the 2 minute opening to our zombie film.
Actors
Our protagonist for the film, played by a student from our school. She is a scientist who previously worked at the anonymous institute where the zombie virus was created, now fighting for her life.
The government minister in the opening of our film is present to explain the story to the viewer, in a rather disjointed narrative as her speech is interrupted by the opening chase scene in our clip.
This screenshot shows actors playing zombies of a less significant role. Used in an establishing shot to show the "masses" of zombies, we chose not to use make up on them and instead opted for a long shot in which their acting results in them playing a convincing role of zombies.
These two screenshots show the main zombies used in our task, who feature in the montage shots and play the role of antagonising the trapped protagonist. As their role was more significant with various close-ups and tableaux shots, we used make up shown in the props section to achieve a convincingly scary zombie effect.
Props
The lights in the corridor we chose for the chase scene play a key role in the atmosphere and plot of our film opening, used flickering on and off to good effect.
In this relatively dark shot is the torch used by the protagonist in the latter half of our film opening, when the above lights fail and leave her in darkness. This also enhanced the atmosphere of our film in shots of the protagonist running down the dark corridor, with her torch being the primary source of light.
Shown in this shot from the chase scene is the protagonist's lab coat, taken from the science labs in our school. This was significant to the mise en scene of our film, and to create the atmosphere of the "anonymous scientific institute" that the protagonist is trapped in (after previously working there).
Shown here are the cooked sausages we used for our gore shots, as they can be used as convincing intestines for the zombies to rip / eat in violent shots key to the zombie horror genre.
To achieve the above zombie look, we used a mixture of make-up, tomato ketchup and some of the sausage used as intestines. This resulted in a pale, bloodied look for the characters who could therefore be featured in close-up gore and screaming shots to enhance the horror portrayed in our film opening.
