G321 Media Studies - People who helped us over the course of the project

Jack Quinlan - http://jackquinlanmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
Matt Healey - http://matthealeymedia.blogspot.co.uk/
James Robinson - http://musefanjames.blogspot.com/
Joe Grover - http://mediajoegrover.tumblr.com/
Amna Hamid - http://amnahamid96.blogspot.co.uk/
Jakiya Sultana - http://jakiya1.tumblr.com/

Behind The Scenes Stills

These are some of the shots from our behind the scenes video which will be edited at a later date:

Matt Healey
James Robinson
Jack Quinlan

Film Inspirations

These are some of the films/Televsion shows which was the main inspiration for our film:

28 Days Later by Danny Boyle

28 Days Later is a British horror film released in 2002 which tells the story of an incurable virus that sweeps through the population, and a small band of survivors who try to reach safety.

It was written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle - also famous for directing Train spotting (1996) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

The cast included relative unknowns Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris and Megan Burns in leading roles alongside well-known character actors Brendan Gleeson and Christopher Eccleston.

http://www.28dayslaterthemovie.co.uk/

Night Of The Living Dead by George Romero

When unexpected radiation raises the dead, a microcosm of Average America has to battle flesh-eating zombies in George A. Romero's (1968) landmark cheapie horror film. Siblings Johnny (Russ Streiner) and Barbara (Judith O'Dea) whine and pout their way through a graveside visit in a small Pennsylvania town, but it all takes a turn for the worse when a zombie kills Johnny. Barbara flees to an isolated farmhouse where a group of people are already holed up. Bickering and panic ensue as the group tries to figure out how best to escape, while hoards of undead converge on the house; news reports reveal that fire wards them off, while a local sheriff-led posse discovers that if you "kill the brain, you kill the ghoul." After a night of immolation and parricide, one survivor is left in the house....

The Road by John Hillcoat

A father (Viggo Mortensen) and son make their way across a post-apocalyptic United States in hopes of finding civilization amongst the nomadic cannibal tribes in 2929 Productions' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's thrilling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road. John Hillcoat (The Proposition) directs from a screenplay provided by Joe Penhall. Charlize Theron co-stars in the Dimension Films release. (2009)

Final filming

Today we filmed the final parts of our film and we can now complete the editing. We had to film a 'flasback' scene which takes plce in a park, and we couldn't film that particular scene the day, we filmed the majority of the film.

Matt Healey

James Robinson - http://musefanjames.blogspot.co.uk/

Jack Quinlan -  http://jackquinlanmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

Directors

These are some directors that I have both ebjoyed and have served as inspiration for some parts of our film:

Edgar Wright - English born director, most known for his collabration films with Simon Pegg (Shaun of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, The Worlds End) as well as the 2011 cult classic, Scott Pilgrim. He is known for his over the top style which adds a comic book style to genres not normally done in that way (Hot Fuzz being a 'cop film', for example).

Quentin Tarantino - American director best known for him films, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained. He is known for bringing the unconventional to the convential - the hesit film Resevoir Dogs never actually shows the heist, for example. One of his trademarks always present throughout all hisa films is the way he uses tension to 'play' with the audience. The scenes are usually long and drawn out. with very little dialogue, with not a lot of movement, before finally 'exploding' with a full scene of action.

Sergio Leone - An Italian director, regarded by many as the greatest Spaghetti western director of all time, director of classics such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few More Dollars. He was the first of kind to the extreme close ups in a western, a technique which is still being used today. As before I stated that Tarantino is known for scenes with long periods of silence, followed by bursts of action- but it was Leone who first made the technique famous.

Evaluation - Planning

As we are now around halfway through the editing stage for our film, we have to start the evaluation stage of the coursework. We have looked at the questions and have decided that we will use a mixture of both video and traditional written answers. As soon as the editing has been completed we will be able to complete the evaluation in full. 

Matt Healey

James Robinson - http://musefanjames.blogspot.co.uk/

Jack Quinlan - http://jackquinlanmedia.blogspot.co.uk/