OTS Inspiration
There were many media products that we took inspiration from.We chose to take inspiration from some of the most popular zombie horror films, we did this because we would therefore have taken what is already successful and made it our own.Some of the products we were inspired by include: The Walking Dead(2008-ongoing series), World War Z(2013), Warm Bodies(2013) and 28 Days Later(2002).
We also look at media products that used a wide spectrum of lighting and deciding that we would like to include a combination of both a typical everyday lighting with something a bit darker. We decided to do this as we wanted the lighting to get darker as Alice's, one of the protagonists of the opening sequence, zombie transition progressed. Products that we looked at for inspiration on lighting include: Zombieland(2008), 28 Days Later(2002), Shaun Of The Dead(2004) and The Walking Dead(2010-ongoing series).
Another part that we liked of other media products were the use of contact lenses for the zombie. Films that include this theme in their product include World War Z(2013) and Warm Bodies(2013).
For costume our inspiration included Walking Dead(2008-ongoing series) and Warm Bodies(2013).We liked both these choices of costume as they both featured survivors in a zombie apocalypse. Elements that we chose to incorporate include the simple clothing that is torn/dirty/ripped and had blood on it. We thought this was effective as it was simple and also looked realistic. We also liked the choices that were make for these zombie costumes, which were more torn and blood stained than the survivors.
We also used Walking Dead(2008-ongoing series) and Shaun Of The Dead(2004) for inspiration for location.We ended up using element from these two media products, forest and typical English neighborhood, as we believed this combination would be beneficial as the audience would be more interested because we weren't just filming in on place, which would therefore build up the anticipation for what was to happen.
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