Shot-by-Shot

Shot number	Shot type	Action	Mise-en-scene
1	Tone card	Green screen
2	tonecard	Universal logo
3	Camera PoV- shaky cam	Man talks into camera saying ’hello, im in the middle of it’ or ‘ive just broken in’	Deserted place, looks slightly crap, and has a fence, for character to climb under
4	Long shot	Zombie Point of view
5	Camera PoV- shaky cam	Continued from 3 ‘its colds and everythings over grown’ he turns the camera around
6	Close up	Zombie feet walk slowly across the screen
7	Camera PoV- shaky cam	Final one, the man run from zombie	It will only be a silhouette, so no make up will be needed
8	Tone card	‘How far will you go…’	Gritty background
9	Long shot	Man in ally- black and white zombie view	Background has to be deserted and everything still
10	Long shot	Someone dead	Background has to be deserted and everything still
11	Tone card	‘To get in?’	Gritty background
12	Camera PoV- shaky cam- close up	Man talks to camera ‘they're everywhere’ or ‘I’m stuck’. First one sounds better. Camera turn something jumps him	In cupboard, strip of light on his face, only small amount of the outside can be seen
13-17	Action shots	Things like people running someone hitting a zombie with a baseball bat (following cliché conventions)	Same requirements as for 9 and 10
18	Long shot	Someone being eaten by zombies	Dark room, maybe same room as 12
19	Close-up	Of face screaming
20	Close-up	Hands ripping clothes (and maybe skin if special effects work out)
21	Close-up	Zombie headgoing in for the ‘kill’
22	Close-up	Of mans eye
23	Long shot	Same as 18- someone throws a object
24	Long shot	people walking towards camera on bridge (isolation), maybe zombie PoV	Long bridge
25	Tone card	Infiltration
26	Shakey cam	Zombie getting up, broken up with static	Looking out of a window Same person in 10

The winning Pitch

Mix of dawn of the dead, monsters, v for vendetta, attack the block

Paradigms: Zombies/monsters, blood, gore, murders, black comedy/humour

Scenario: freedom fighters try to fight a oppressive government whilst trying to live in a death zone

character paradigm- freedom fighters

setting paradigm- infected zone

Treatment

It starts off with a video blog on ‘YouTube’ where someone is talking about the infection spreading throughout London. Then a tone card says ‘years later’. We see deserted streets, there is no sounds then a man runs past the camera into the distance, we see a black silhouette, of a man, as he goes forward we see him in a suit, the good guy is in tattered clothes he reaches a fence and climbs over. The other man runs up and sees the sign which says ‘infected zone’. Fade to black.

Another tone card says ‘where the dead don’t sleep’. We see a point of view from a security camera which pans with the good guy. The camera is portioned at the end of the path, he strolls up towards the door, the camera switches to a close up of his hand knocking, and the door is open. The camera switches back which sees the door slowly open. We see the back of a silhouetted man (the fact that he is a zombie is implied), he looks like he may be feasting on an another man. We see a close up of the good guys face, as he backs off. The camera is back at the end of the path; the man slowly backs off after dropping his bat and runs off.

A third tone card shows ‘a cover up that costs the lives of millions’.  Shot from the end of a professional looking corridor or a bunker. Two people are talking one gives the other a envelope, they walk in opposite directions, the camera tracks the person with the envelope he walks into a room the camera is at an over the shoulder shot. He walks in the room, someone is sitting at the desk dress professionally, and says ‘we’re compromised’ hands the letter to him and says ‘his back’, they open the envelope on the table lifts it up to their face and sees an image from the CCTV camera from earlier of the man walking.

The music kicks in and we see a variety of action shots, mostly of running. Then back to the house the camera tracks towards the open door, the zombie looks up with blood around its mouth. We only see this for a second before the title ‘THE RETURN’ flashes up to the screen. It is undecided but we may have the traditional zombie noise is heard over the Title.

‘END’

Key scenes zombie house scene
infected zone sign
CCTV

Location list
Abbey wood- desolate land
Dark building- zombie house

Clinical looking building-government headquarters

Pitch Two

Idea mix of 'The Unborn', 'The Ring' and 'The Sixth Sense'
Paradigms: supernatural, evil child, haunting, mystery, death
Scenario:  Child has powers but doesn't know it, every time he/she gets angry someone dies a brutal death and you begin to realise it is him. When he does realise he begins to use his powers for bad.
Following a Tordorvs theorem.

Pitch one

http://www.slideshare.net/reasha/the-estate-agents

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Final Girl

Within most of the ‘horror genre’ woman are preserved to be the innocent, the victim, the vulnerable or perhaps all three. In most films there will always be a masculine figure ( the hero) who will have to save the vulnerable woman (the princess) from whatever ‘horror’ confronts him ( the quest). Throughout time the way horrors have been used, come as more of a lesson, seeing a lot of the more promiscuous woman, that we see in films, often being the ones who die first, leaving the virginal woman till last, with them more likely surviving.

Freud’s theory of film looks at us, as film watchers, being scared of unknown and says it is represented within film in three different ways:

Sadism- the idea of deriving gratification from other peoples pain.

Masochism-deriving gratification from ones own pain.

Voyeurism- deriving gratification from watching others.

The voyeurism that Freud talks about, links well with Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze, with classical cinema, it was often known that a beautiful woman would become victim to the ‘Male Gaze’ relating back to this idea of being watched but not knowing it enhancing the vulnerability of the woman.

Carol Clover’s theory looks at our forced relationship, not with the killer but with the ‘resourceful surviving female.’ So therefore we don’t associate with the sadist voyeur (the killer) but however with the masochism voyeur as we are seen to identify with the victim.

TimeLines

http://www.slideshare.net/reasha/the-hills-have-eyes-narration