Progress Report #2

Progress update 2.

This week we rearranged the teaser trailer edit as we found from more research that a complicated structure would not be as affective and may confuse the audience. The Magazine Front Cover and Movie Poster are nearly finished, once they are finished we plan to show member in the class to get an idea on the effectiveness of the designs. For now as a collective we have been exchanging ideas between one another.

Next progress report: 4th December 2010

Benjamin Acolatse

Survey Monkey

Survey Monkey is a form of digital technolgy that we are using to conduct our survey, as we feel that it is a more reliable source.
It is used by companies such as Campbell's and Samsung to gather customer service information.

Zombie sub-genre Fenetta

A zombie is a dead body that is not entirely dead. Zombies usually are not completely dead. They have been bought back from the dead and have taken monstrous form. In some cases, zombies are human beings that have infected with a deadly virus or a pandemic illness.

Sometimes in cases like this, they are called ‘Zombie Apocolyses’. In some cases, zombies try to eat or infect unharmed zombies with a virus in which evolves them into a zombie too. Being a zombie can happen from a single bite or from the pandemic illness that has spread. In mainstream media, the use of Zombies is very wide-spread. You have our serious films about zombies, for example, Dawn of the dead, and then you have your mock films, such as ‘Shaun of The Dead’. Films about Zombies have been popularised in the last couple of years and I think this is because of the whole 2012 “world ending” thing. The thought of a deadly pandemic spreading across the world has been in several films such as ’28 Days Later’ and ‘I Am Legend’.

The usual conventions of a Zombie is that the Zzombie has very pale almost grey looking skin. Their eyes are usually white with tiny black pupils and they're most likely to have blood around their mouth to conote the eating of human flesh. They sometimes also have limbs moving, to make them more scary and missing items of clothing, usually torn or tatterd. They have decaying body parts, and the only way to kill them is to aim directly for their brain or chest area. Another typpical convention of a Zombie is that they walk with their arms stretched in front of them, ready to grab whatever is in front of them. They are very disruptive, runing things and they're very clumsy and have almost no control over their bodies.

Zombie's and Vampires could be put into the same monster catergory as they both feed off of humans. The vampire feeds off of human blood and the Zombie feeds off of human flesh.

Zombies were usually only read about in books and folk tales. One of the most popular and recognised Zombie movies is ‘Night of The living Dead’ by George A. Romero in 1968. This film paved a way for many zombie films in years to come.

The Zombie still takes some of it’s characteristics from the 1968 film ‘Night of the Living Dead’ and if it wasn’t for that movie, the whole concept of being a zombie wouldn’t be the same. Romero then released a more popular and widely watched Zombie movie in 2005 called ‘Dawn of the Dead’ or as some may call it ‘Return of the Living Dead’. He used some of the concepts from his old movie and merged them into a more modern-day horror movie.

Asian horror sub-genre Fenetta

There are two main types of Asian horror, Japanese horror and Korean horror.

Japanese horror, sometimes referred to as J-horror is the Japanese contribution to the horror genre.

J-horror tend to target and focus on psychological horror and tension building. Most Japanese horror’s involve poltergeists and ghosts, haunting victims, whilst some others contain themes such as possession, exorcism, shamanism and precognition. The origins of j-horror could be said to come from old folk stories and ghost story classics. 

A lot of J-horror movies involve children being possessed, or dead such as ‘The Grudge’ and ‘The Ring’. Others include the dead coming back to life to haunt the living for example in ‘One missed Call’ and stalking and killing their victims. They also include coming back from the dead to haunt and remind their victims of things that have happened in the past.

 

'One missed call' is a popular J-horror film which has been remade by American directors in 2008 for a re-release.Korean horror is very similar to Japanese horror. They use the same motifs and themes as J-horror but is not produced in the same way.

 One popular Korean horror film is called 'Cinderella' and 2006

Sci-fi sub-genre

Sci-fi horror is horror including ideas such as aliens and other extra terrestrial things. Alien is a good idea of a sci-fi horror and it’s sequels called Alien vs Predator.