Evaluation: Part 1 - Brief

I was working to the brief of creating a title sequence for a film of our choice. My group; Aiden, Terry, Louis and myself got together. We came up with three ideas and eventually settled on the idea of a zombie movie. As a group we watched zombie film titles sequences, I suggested the idea of making the title sequence ‘online’ as our protagonists are three teenage boys. By using social media websites such as; Facebook, the idea of a zombie apocalypse is formed. As our subgenre is a dark comedy/ thriller / horror we kept the title simple by calling it; ‘A Zombie Movie’. The title sequence introduces the idea of zombies and the current modern culture of zombie movies. Zombie movies are in the 4th generation of film (parody) so we thought that making our zombie movie a parody version would fit in with the current type of zombie movie that the audience are not quite used to viewing. Our title sequence shows the profiles of our three male teenage protagonists and I feel is original, using social media websites for a title sequence is not normality. The images we chose showed the three protagonists being friends. Within some of the images and videos, there are some zombie connotations, but as the protagonists are not supposed to notice the start of a zombie apocolypse, this is shown through our title sequence by not including any actual zombie footage or awareness of zombies; instead a slight obsession with zombies as teenage boys have in real life; shown through games such as: Left 4 Dead, The Last of Us, The Walking Dead, Tv shows such as The Walking Dead and films like Zombieland. We wanted to show what a typical teenage boy is like in todays world; obsessed with the idea of zombies and social media. We chose not to adhere to the typical conventions of zombie movie by not showing the zombie to confuse the audience and set up an enigma for the audience to continue watching the film.