As we did more research our idea would evolve and we often developed it further. This meant that the had lots of different ideas for the sequence. When we had finished filming our idea was very different from what it had once been.
First draft of pitch:After looking into our initial idea we realized that it was to complicated and we were worried about the time difference between now and 50 years ago. We decided our final idea idea will be that the end of the world is under way and we have several zombie's running to attack the survivors. A zombie is filmed eating the last of the survivors whilst bodies are strewn amongst them. The zombie then sees the camera and pounces at it, with blood dripping down it's face and contact lenses in.
Story: It's the middle of the end of the world and 3 survivors are packing and planning to hike to a port so that they can cross the sea and find a better place. But they encounter some zombies and nevertheless, they are triumphant. Or so they think. Towards the end of our opening title sequence, we see the zombies eating some people that gives them a special kind of immortality. The audience then sees the survivors thinking that they're okay for now and that they have defeated the zombies, but they don't see the zombies getting up and walking back to the house. The opening title sequence ends with a bang at the door, shocked expressions are exchanged and a extreme close up of a zombie through the glass. AC Final pitch: An infection, which can be spread by the bite of someone who is infected, has spread across the world. The majority of the population have turned into zombies or been consumed by them. The infection is spread by the bite of a zombie.Those who remain have been left in a world that can barely be recognised as our own. The sequence will start with a scene of three teenagers desperately running through a forest. One girl will fall behind the rest of her fellow survivors and will be face to face with a zombie. This will result in her companions running back to save her when they hear her screams but not before (unbeknownst to them) she had been bitten. We will then cut to a a scene where all three survivors are searching for a abandoned house to gather supplies. The two who remain uninfected will enter the house while the girl remains outside to stand watch. The zombie transformation progression will then commence and we will see close ups of hoe humans change into zombies. We will end our sequence with a shot of the zombie going towards the door, and her friends that are inside that door. We chose to exclude the scene where someones gets eaten by zombies as we filmed this scene but the shots were not effective and it just brought down the quality of our entire opening sequence. EB