Final Video

michael's evaluation

Our media product uses typical forms and conventions of real media products of this genre as we have incorporated such key features as; a dark, eerie setting; a hoard of flesh eating zombies and Byronic, everyday man, hero. these features have helped us to maintain an original piece with key elements in order that we can stick to the basic features of this genre. However it has also hindered us in our development as we have had to stick to these guidelines in order that the piece fits in with this genre. Due to this, we could not do everything we wanted to, however we added some different conventions to create a well rounded product.
our media product represents the social group of indie teenagers. as our two main charactors represent this group. this is used a lot in commedy horror movies however it is usualy emphasised more, to give a bolder depiction of the person.
a typical example of the kind of media institution that may distribute our product is paramount pictures as they are good distributers of this genre of film.
the target audience for our media product would be teenagers as our piece is to violent for younger audiences and fits in well with steriotypical popular films for this age group.
we attracted our audience with catchy music and titles and we adressed our audience with the use of graphic scenes of violence and creating and playing on steriotypical personalities.

audience feedback questionnaire

after showing our video to a group of 20 people of the right age group, we asked them to fill out a copy of this review questionnaire.

feedback questionaire results

here are the results of our feedback questionaire.

Filming

Filming is now complete but due to lighting and scenery we had to make a few last minute changes to our film.
The location we originally chose to film was too dark and the lighting we did not have the equipment to light it up.
Because of this we had to move the location of filming down to a better lighted area not too far from the original filming location.

copyright

Once the credits start to roll we would like to use The song "Coming Undone" By the artist "KoЯn" because the lyrics and beat match the movie.
But before we add the music we needed to ask permison from the artists lable as they hold the copyright to the song.

So I searched for the contact email and asked them for permission to use the song.

Character Profile: Zombies

Character Name: Zombies
Actor(s) Name(s): Robin Hutchinson, William Kuhn, Lloyd McPherson
Age: Unknown

Bio: Deceased re-animated human corpses that are empty shells of what they used to be with nothing but animalistic instincts and a craving for flesh and blood and survival to drive them.

Character Profile: Mike Riggs

Character Name: Mike Riggs
Actor Name: Michael Kuhn
Age: 16
Bio: an average teenage waster. he doesnt go to school, he has no job and spends every day hanging out, down the park, or going to parties, but this doesnt seem to damage his social life in any way as he is well known and is considered a very good freind by all.

Character Profile: Jimmy Frodham

Character Name: Jimmy Frodham
Actor Name: James Fordham
Age: 16
Bio: an average teenage boy, he has a routine and a life he goes to school, work and even has time for friends. he likes to think of himself as a hero when actually he is a coward. his life seems to be going pretty well, even though he is normally behind on school work and is known to rush things at the very last moment.

Final decisions made in the planning stage

After we had gathered our results from the audience research questionnaire we made a few new decisions about the final product.
One of the main decicisons we had not made before we got the audience research questionnaire back was whether to have the old fashioned slow brainless zombies or the more modern fast and feral zombies, But once the results came back as "either" we decided to use the fast, feral zombies as they give more excitement and thrill to the movie.
Knowing that we were going to have fast moving zombies greatly influenced our choice of location because a small room with fast zombies would mean it would end to fast.
So we have decided on a local back road that is next to a river and is rather long. This gives us enough space for the zombies to give chase. We have managed to "recruit" some Friends to be the zombies and assistant camera man.
We have purchased some fake blood and blood capsules.
We will also be wearing old clothes as we do not wish to stain any good clothes with fake blood and mud, although this does mean the characters may look out of place as they are supposed to be walking home from a night out.

We also revised our original script.

Storyboard

This is the storyboard we have created for us to follow when filming.