Magazine Review Draft

We studied the magazine 'Empire' which is good for film reviews, so we took ideas from this such as fonts, images, layout, headings etc... so we could build our own review for our film. Justin began this by forming a layout and started adding headings and text using different fonts, sizes and colours to make it more interesting for the reader. Below is our film review draft so when we want to make the actual review we can use this as a starting point. Also is a film review of 'Kickass' from Empire magazine which we took ideas from to develop ours. As it is obvious our template is similar to that of the 'Kickass' one, this is because we took the layout idea to create our own, making it look more realistic.

Story Board

This is our story board that me and Justin made showing the scenes/shots that we will be filming. Also it explains what is happening with the characters and it follows the movie through explaining the story in still images.

Mood Board

This is our mood board which Ryan made using images from the internet which represents the mood and theme of our film.

Script

Dead mans love final

View more documents from RyanA2media.

This is the script which was written by me and Ryan had involvement in a couple of scenes.. It includes every scene that we wish to do and also the characters dialogue. It took us about a week to plan out and finally write before we went through it and edited parts which took another couple of days. When in the process of filming we will try to keep to the script as much as we can and if we have enough time then we may add anther scene which we have ideas for.

The idea of this scene is to have Luke and his wife in bed with Dave listening outside, he walks in on them and they tell him to leave. Then Mickey appears from either under the bed or in the closet holding a video camera and then tells Luke to leave as well. This would be a very funny scene to have and we are all happy for it to be added if there is enough time left.

The script is quite detailed with including all the scenes, having the characters expressions and actions, also the dialogue. This will help us a lot when we work on the filming/editing because we can follow it carefully and create exactly what we have written down, knowing how everything must look and what to do, knowing our next step by looking back at the script.

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.  

Setting

Above are three photo's taken of certain scenes we willbe filming for our film all based in one setting. The setting is someone's house to use for the scenes where our characters Luke, his wife, Mickey and Dave will be mainly used.

The top photo is the bedroom. This will be used for our character Luke and his wife in bed on a couple of scenes. There is also a possibility of using it for another scene idea that we have, but it's not added to the script because we will only use this is we have enough time left.

The second photo is the outside of the house which will be used on a couple of occasions. When Luke is entering the house after he has been hit by the car, also when he returns from work. But the main shot for this scene will be when he leaves the house in the morning and then Mickey throws a table through the window.

The bottom photo is of a room which we might use for two possible ideas: when Luke is eating his wife and also we could turn it into an office to use for the work scene.

A2 Proposal

For this years coursework we have decided to make a short film. The genre of our film is a Zom Rom Com (zombie romantic comedy). Films that relate to this are 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Zombie Land'.  The idea of the film is to show a man whom turns into a zombie but tries to continue and live a normal life with his wife/girlfriend. It will show him doing normal human things that happen everyday but him trying to deal with it whilst being a zombie. We will develop this idea more so it is much clearer of what the film is all about.