X PRE-PRODUCTION5 Pre-Production Schedule

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

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Locations

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

cigarettes

Characters

Donnie

Costumes

Graphic T-shirt

Short Shorts

Odd socks

Possible slippers

Scene 2

• 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

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Location

Someones shower

Props

Shower gel (sporty) - nearly empty

Liquid latex

Fake blood

Glasses

towel

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

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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

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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

Dates

Practice shoot - 10/01/2020 - 12/01/2020

First shooting day - 19/01/2020

Second shooting day - 26/01/2020

X VODCAST2: Titles

VODCAST

In this vodcast, I speak about the titles in different movies.  I've looked at some Working Title movies as well as Warp movies.  It is clear that a title is very important as it anchors the genre and the preferred reading.  This is shown through the font, colour, size and case.  It is interesting as a few movies don't have any titles at all.  The order is also important to look at as this will help us create our film opening.  I look at Tyrannosaur (Considine, 2011), This is England (Meadows, 2007) and Four Lions (Morris, 2010) from Warp and Bridget Jones's Diary (Maguire, 2001) from Working Title.  I then looked at some zom-rom-com genre specific movies such as, Zombieland (Fleischer, 2009) and Anna and the Apocalypse (McPhail, 2018).
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X SOURCES1 Playlist of films I’ve researched

These are all of the films I've referenced to in my blogs and done some research on. I haven't gone into lots of depth on all of these films.
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• High School Musical 3 (Ortega, 2008)
• Focus (Ficarra, Requa, 2015)
• Baby Driver (Wright, 2017)
• Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (Meadows, 2009)
• Tyrannosaur (Considine, 2011)
• Legend (Helgeland, 2015)
• Bridget Jones's Baby (Maguire, 2016)
• Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
• The Theory of Everything (Marsh, 2014)
• Warm Bodies (Levine, 2013)
• Zombieland (Fleischer, 2009)
• Pretty in Pink (Deutch, 1986)
• The Brother's Grimsby (Leterrier, 2016)
• Scream (Craven, 1996)
• This is England (Meadows, 2007)
• About a Boy (Weitz brothers, 2002)
• Ali G Indahouse (Mylod, 2002)
• Atonement (Wright, 2007)
• Wish You Were Here (Leland, 1987)
• Friday the 13th (Nispel, 2009)
• Four Lions (Morris, 2010)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (Maguire, 2001)
• Hot Fuzz (Wright, 2007)
• Dawn of the Dead (Snyder, 2004)
• Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
• 28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002)
• Mean Girls (Waters, 2004)
• She's All That (Iscove, 1999)
• Paul (Mottola, 2011)
• Billy Elliot (Daldry, 2000)
• Love actually (Curtis, 2003)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (Newell, 1994)
• About Time (Curtis, 2013)
• Dead Man's Shoes (Meadows, 2004)
• Twentyfour Seven (Meadows, 1998)