Storyboard

Due to the fast transitioned pace of our film, we thought it would be best to stick to words rather than pictures for a storyboard. This is much easier for us, as the words can cover a range rather than a picture which can only cover a point in our film.

Misé-en-Scene

Our Mise-en-Scene

Location

We will be filming in Sawtry, around the streets for a few scenes, but the main part will be based where Simon plays airsoft, and abandoned housing area. This is a very cliché of a thriller, but it shows the sheer destruction of the infection. We will take some shots of broken down and derelict places, and use them in our opening. We will also get some shots of run down areas to show the extent of destruction by the zombies, where people have abandoned their houses.

Lighting

We plan to have all natural lighting when it is getting dark when the main characters are walking in the street. This is to show the realism of the area. When they are all in the woods, we shoot the shots where there is minimal lighting.

Camera

Alot of the camerawork will be handheld to keep the idea of a news report.

Narrative

We will have a news report during the riot scenes. There will also be some yells of people shouting for each other, in confusion. The main characters will have minimal dialogue. There will be a scene with a person talking to someone on the phone where they are asking if the other person is alright, there will be no answer.

Costumes

We will have typical/casual clothing for our actors.

We will use mostly natural props, such as rusty old abandoned houses. We will have an answer phone.

Props

We will need

• Answer Phone
• Blood
• Old papers

Title Ideas

In order to establish a connection with our target audience, we decided to hand out a questionnaire based on what font we should use. We picked a varied choice of fonts that would typically look horror, and told the people we queried to pick 2 choices. Here are our results.



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The best font, was the second from last one. This was also the one we picked. It was similar to the 28 days later font, but it also had a bit more erosion on it, making it seem almost like zombies flesh.
We then downloaded this font, and used it for our opening sequence.
As for the name of the title, we decided on Contagion. This means corruption, or disease, which works well with the genre.