Influences and Posters

Our film is a romantic horror comedy so the two main films that have given us inspiration because they are very similar are Shaun Of The Dead and Scary Movie. The characters and comedy we are going to be using relates to how they are used in these films which is why they link. The biggest similarity between our film and these are the way the characters are represented. In Shaun of the Dead, the character Ed is seen as a lazy, but funny person which is the same as our character Mickey. The humour in Scary Movie is quite different though because it could be seen as quite "cheap" and "silly" but it's good inspiration because the genre is the same. Zombieland is similar to Shaun of the dead as it is about zombies and it also includes comedy, so this is another film that we can relate to ours and is an influence.

I think that the Shaun of the Dead poster is really effective because it shows all aspects of the film. The horror/zombie side to it is shown with all the zombies and blood, the comedy part is shown with a plain looking man with a cricket bat, also the romance is shown as he is holding a bunch of flowers. It also says: a romantic comedy, with zombies. The Scary Movie poster is very simple and explainable as it shows parts from the movies it is mocking with the man wearing the Scream mask and the man holding a shirt saying: 'I see dead people' which is from Sixth Sense. It looks comical with the killer sat in a cinema seat holding a bucket of popcorn and their facial expressions looking quite sarcastically scared, showing it isn't serious. The Zombieland poster shows them standing in a grave yard all carrying weapons, it doesn't really show the comedy side to it but it still a good poster to show what type of film it is and what it is all about.

Our target audience is aiming to be 15+ (adult) because of the comedy which younger people probably wouldn't understand and the fact it includes scenes of violence, bad language and sex wouldn't be appropriate for people below that age. Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland are both 15's and Scary Movie is an 18.

Two other film we have recently been looking at which I suggested were Me, Myself and Irene and Superbad. The idea is to have the split face with half being Luke when he's normal and the other half being when he turns into a zombie. The idea of Superbad is with the smaller characters in the background such as Mickey, Dave and the wife. So we are thinking of putting these two together with the split face in the centre and the other characters in the background.