This document provides guidance for filming in the post-apocalyptic genre. It recommends using long shots to capture drastically different scenery and close-up shots to tell the narrative. Sets and props should look worn and unmaintained to convey an apocalyptic feel. Black and white or color filters can be used for flashbacks or to age the location. The soundtrack should include old, pre-catastrophe music and more tense music for action scenes. Narration by the protagonist can explain what happened while the plot establishes daily life and a late disturbance, like finding an injured survivor or bandit attack. Stereotypically, the protagonist is a white male with diverse support characters.

1. FORM RESEARCH
By Szymon Czajka

2. What's unique to the genre
• Camera work- Plenty of longshots to take in the drastically
different scenery (thus the filming location must be chosen
carefully), still needs other, closer shots to tell narretive
• Mise-en-Scene – everything is ment to look as if an apocalypse
happened, this means clothing and props must look worn out
and unmaintained, while the setting should either be the most
run-down area of the town that I can find, or wilderness (either
way trying to avoid a busy street in order to give the scene the
Post-Apocalyptic feeling)
• Editing- if flashbacks are used (in my case, I’m considering it)
black and white filters are recommended. Filters could also be
used to give the filming location a more worn-out colouring.

3. • Sound- Post-Apocalyptic films usually feature old-fashioned music
that was popular before the catastrophic event, as well as some
slightly more tense music when a action scene is taking place. In my
case I will need to find some royalty-free music then select something
I will find appropriate for my production.
• Narrative- For this, I will need to introduce a protagonist, as well as
some way to deliver an explanation of what exactly happened to the
world. I am thinking of having the protagonist / protagonist’s (voice)
actor to be the one doing the narration of events. As for the plot, I am
to establish an equilibrium and hint at the change, thus I plan to focus
on the protagonist’s daily routine of scavenging and patrol, then near
the end, have some sort of disturbance such as finding a wounded
survivor or being attacked by bandits.
• Stereotyping-not much uniqueness can be found in stereotyping in
this genre. However there is a tendency to have the protagonist be a
white male, with support characters being either female, different
ethnic background, or just different personality/apearence.