Evaluation - Final

For my course work i did a study on the Genre and Mise-en-scene on Shaun of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Both Films are of the Horror Genre. i was looking at how the conventions have changed over time for the horror genre One of the main tasks that i carried out was to create a Script for a Prequel for either Shan or Dawn of the dead. In the end i went with Dawn of the Dead. Part of my Script was that i was required to create 9 key frames for my script to go with. The 9 frames had to be of the characters (in costume) posed as they would in the scene where the script has taken place. My Script had to either be a Prequel or Sequel and show either a Resolution (how things are fixed) or show the Disruption (what caused it). i Decided to go for the Disruption of how the zombie outbreak in Dawn of the Dead started.

For my script i mainly focused on the doctor being this mad, distorted mess of a person. i wanted people who read the scripted to feel what the doctor was going through and why he's doing these experiments. My main study was to show how the conventions on how the horror genre had changed over the years. My script was about a mad scientist who's daughter died of a terrible illness while he was in prison for testing on his patients to find the cure for his daughter. He escaped and kidnapped a tramp on the side of the street and took him to his lab, to try and find the cure but ends up creating the zombie virus. after months of experiments he begins a video diary of his progress. I used ideas from other films such as SAW, Hostel, Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead. I also took ideas from these films such as using the doctor cutting his arm off from SAW and Hostel, The way that there is a doctor like in Dawn of the Dead and how that in the end of Shaun of the Dead it ends with Shaun and his best mate as a now zombie in a shed together.    

For my 9 key frames i focused on the characters as well as the things that make the film show the horror genre. I used The Zombie, Blood, Mad Scientist, Gore, Lab, Dog, Victim to Zombie, Dark Gloomy Shed.   

For my location report i decided to go for a kitchen and a shed like in shaun of the dead and how it links to the film. In the end of shaun of the dead we see Shaun and Ed in a shed and i thought this would be a really good way to show how i wanted to relate my script to both films while basing it off of one of them.  

The part of my course work that went well was my script. This was because i could be creative and show of the genre horror in my own way and link the both my script to the film i was basing it of. One way i did this was by showing how zombies don't attack dogs and only go for humans. In Dawn of the Dead we see a dog escape and the zombies don't care so i thought i could express this more in my script. I also wanted to show how far this character i had created would go to be successful and the way i did this was by including a moment where the doctor cuts his arm off and makes a sacrifice to the zombie for the good of his research. The most important scene of all was to show how it all happens. i included a scene where we see how the zombie escapes and infects another person making the virus even worst. This was both the most creative and hardest parts to do because all had to fit while sticking to the horror zombie genre.

The things that wasn't as good about my script was the fact that it was shot in a kitchen and not a lab like a doctor/scientist should be based and along side that i wanted to use a white lab coat which would of made the character look more professional and better. Due to it being a kitchen and not a lab i was unable to use any props such as surgical equipment and and scientist equipment (beakers, computers) I also couldn't do the zombie up as well as i wanted to do. I wish i had used some make up for the blood and scars.

In conclusion though as a while i loved planning and writing up the script and getting the people together to make it happen. to be able to write up all this has been something i didn't think i could do but im proud of my work and hope anyone who reads it likes it as much as i liked making it happen.