2. Story in 10 bullet points
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Sick girl runs and escapes from Hospital/Laboratory
Covers her eyes from light of the outside world
She is stumbling- cannot walk
She rips off needles from her arms and her identity tag
*She starts to have flashbacks between each frame
She begins to cough blood and it is splattered on her
white hospital cloak
*Another flashback
She realises she is infected and can effect humanity
End (extreme close up) which her eyes changing
She is infected
3. Inspiration from real films
Film
What was inspiring?
Resident Evil
Plot of Opening Sequence
28 Days/ Weeks
Later
The cure for the virus
Dawn of the
Dead
Blood and Gore
World War Z
Science/Government
I am Legend
Setting
How we applied this ‘Inspiratory’ to our opening
sequence
When she realises she is turning into a Zombie
Keeping the infected in quarantine away from humanity
and is used as an experiment for the cure of the virus
Coughing of blood and needles
How the minority turns into a majority
Use of Isolation
4. Consideration of narrative structure,
style & theory
Structure
Style
Theory
1)Unrestricted
Todorov
Propp
Barthes
Strauss
Cameron
Non-Linear
2)Subjective and Objective
How/Why:
Our opening sequence is nonlinear because we only see the
events that unfold after she
becomes ill. We do not see into her
life before she is in hospital
*flashbacks
1)How/Why: We see clips of
scenes within the film
Yes / Partial / No
Yes / Partial / No
Yes / Partial / No
Yes / Partial / No
Yes / Partial / No
Todorov – Mainly disruption of
equilibrium.
Propp – Victim yet bad character.
2)How/Why: Subjective because it
is a long shot of her walking
Objective because the flashbacks
are in her POV
Barthes – Uses some of the codes
such as enigma, sematic and
symbolic.
Strauss – Good and Evil however
same person
Cameron – Non Linear narrative
structure.
5. Conventions
Conventions
Extreme close ups
Blood
Montage editing
Use
Develop
Challenge
Was there an inspiration/similarity from real
films?
How?
Dawn of the Dead inspired us because it created
tension and audience are restricted
Saw inspired us because it builds a feeling of
disgust
Dawn of the Dead- Builds tension
Darkness
We did not want our opening sequence to be
cliché so we decided to challenge it like in Shaun
of the Dead
Abandoned location
Cabin in the woods- it developed a similar idea to
ours
Linear narrative
Music
Memento inspired us because of its use of
manipulating the order of sequential time
The scene in Twilight where the character is
transformed the music builds up tension and fear
amongst the audience even though it is not in our
subgenre it is still relative and effective
6. Enigma
• The Enigma(s) in our opening sequence are:
1) We wonder who else is infected and whether she infects
anyone
2)Why did they choose her?
3)Was she previously infected and had the potential to harm
7. Timeline idea
First flash back to
tell audience why
she is the way she
is.
Girl runs put of
somewhere in
hospital costume.
She seems sick.
She is running
away.
= Flashbacks
= Camera Angles
= Editing
Has more flashbacks.
Involving government
information.
Gets more sick. She
stops running and
starts to limp.
Pace slows down. She has
become extremely pale.
Coughs up
blood and
wipes on
costume.
Close up of
eyes. Turns into
zombie.
