Group 1

PITCH FOR OPENING TITLE

SEQUENCE

PRODUCTION COMPANY AND

LOGO

Epidemic Productions

• “OUTBREAK’ is the name of our film.

• It relates well to the sub genre, zombie horror, it tells

the audience that there will be some kind of outbreak.

• Outbreaks are commonly associated with zombies as

there is usually a catastrophic epidemic that spreads

across a large area and is uncontrollable.

FILM SYNOPSIS

• Scene begins in protagonist’s laboratory.

• Scientist doing biopsies on supposedly dead human

• The zombie awakens whilst the scientist’s back is turned

• Zombies attacks scientist #2 and kills him

• Scientist #1 returns to see scientist #2 being attacked by the zombie, and

she hides whilst trying to call for help

• Unknown to Scientist #1 the zombie escapes through another open door.

• Zombie escapes building

• Throughout film a zombie army is formed

FILM SYNOPSIS

We will be establishing characters in our title sequence. Our scientists will be

established by their outfit, as one will be wearing a hazmat suit, along with rubber

gloves and safety goggles and the other will be wearing a lab coat. Another way to

establish this character will be how we see that they are in the lab with a zombie which

they presume to be dead. The protagonist is the female scientist and the victim is the

male scientist.

OUTLINE OF OPENING

SEQUENCE

The genre and subgenre will also be established, from the start we

will be able to see that the film is a horror as we see the zombie

attack and also kill one of the scientists co-workers. The subgenre

of the film will also be known as the audience will be able to see

that the film is the beginning of a zombie horror.

OUTLINE OF OPENING

SEQUENCE

VISUAL OUTLINE OF OPENING

SEQUENCE

OPENING OF OPENING

SEQUENCE (2)

Film opening ideas

360 degree angle- show that the scientist (Gabriella) is alone in the room, but on the third 360 you will see her co-worker walk past the window in the door.

The scientist will look at the door and we will have a POV shot, with the camera shaking slightly so that the audience can sympathise with the character as they will see how scared she is.

During the chase scene we will use a track so that we can steadily follow the characters who are running.

When the scientist turns their back on the zombie at the beginning of the scene, slowly we will zoom into the zombies face. It will stop at an extreme close up of the zombies eyes, which is when they will open to display the zombies frightening eyes as we will be using coloured contacts.

In the scene we will see different laboratory equipment such as tools to experiment with and chemicals that you would expect to see in a lab.

The makeup that will be used in the opening will be the zombie makeup, this will include fake blood.

COLLEGE LAB SETTING

• We will be displaying our titles right at the beginning as

there will be a sequence where we film parts of the lab.

• E.g. rows of beakers containing different coloured

liquids which represent the chemicals in the laboratory,

and preservation containers, the contents of which may

be small parts or either human or animal body parts.

• The titles will consist of the cast, and anyone else who

has helped within the production.

USE OF TITLES

FONTS PART 2

The fonts that we will use will probably be quite grungy for

bits such as the title of the film, however for smaller texts

such as the cast we may use a simpler font such as Arial as

this text will be smaller, hence being harder to read.

We found out that horror movies which have been released recently like

‘Annabelle’ and ‘As above, So below’ have both had their target audience set as

15-24 males.

Our audience members who we have gotten primary feedback from are also

within this age bracket,.

TARGET AUDIENCE

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MARKET FIT

This scene is similar to our idea in a way. Our plan is for the Zombie to suddenly wake up, surprising the scientist and eventually killing him. However the scientist in I am Legend does not underestimate the zombie, and therefore has it restricted using a type of handcuff.

o Location: The scene will begin in a science lab (classroom) and then go out

into the corridor.

o Props: Costumes for scientist and zombie like human, beakers full of

coloured water, jars full of preserved bits and bobs, experimental

equipment/tools, coloured contacts for zombie and fake blood.

o Technical equipment: a camera, a tripod, lighting equipment.

RESOURCES

Gabriella – Scientist (Lead Protagonist)

We will require a hazmat suit, rubber gloves and safety goggles.

Primary Zombie

We will use make-up and other special effects to make the zombie look like a

cold body, which has been dead for a long period of time and other surgical

marks to show the experiments

Scientist’s Co-worker (Second Zombie)

This character will start as a regular scientist with a white coat, but will be

savagely attacked by the first zombie. Near the end of the scene we will

replicate the first zombies make-up but to a minor degree because the

character has been dead much longer. Also this character will exhibit bite

marks which we will make with special effect make-up

CAST REQUIREMENTS

o Director: Samuel Medhanye and Leonie Charlton

o Producer: Samuel Medhanye

o Production Design: Gabriella Pal

o Camera Person: Leonie Charlton

o Editor: Cameron Legister and Samuel Medhanye

PRODUCTION GROUP ROLES

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

Proposal, Pre-Production and

pitch prep

Group Production Pitch

Filming

Filming

Editing

Editing and Evaluation

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Leonie, Cameron, Samuel and Gabriella