My film is called Abomination Union and is about a woman who wakes up after an explosion inside Big Ben to find that the population of the UK has turned into zombies. She then finds a man, which they develop a love relationship between each other. She then finds out that he is working with a group called Abomination Union who plan to release all the flesh eating zombies in the UK into Europe so that they can then rebuild their lives. She rejects these ideas and now on the run from the group. My film has various themes that could excite the audience, the main theme being a zombie/apocalypse in which the audience can get to see loads of action (e.g. buildings being blown up, zombies getting killed etc). With the zombie/apocalyptic theme, I also wanted the audience to see the theme of romance to show the relationship between the two main characters during a zombie apocalypse and how their relationship grows whilst killing so many zombies. They are also expecting to see very famous faces as well, with the likes of Keira Knightley, Christian Bale and Helena Bonan Carter, headlining the blockbuster which would motivate the audience even more to go and see the film.
Whilst watching the film, I want the audience to be excited with what they're watching. I want them to think about the danger that the main characters are under and how much terror they need to prevail, so I also want the audience to be also quite scared as well. I also want the audience to be given a sense if they were in a particular situation, how would they deal with it and what they would do. I also want to give the audience questions as well, the main question would be if they were put in that situation, would you really kill another zombie? Before they turned, they were normal human beings, the question would be would they have the courage or the audacity to do such a crime.
I think my production pack, which includes the poster, storyboard and trailer is a very effective preview of the content of my film. I created a very dark poster to catch the audience's eyes and make them remember after seeing it. I spent a lot of time creating this poster, and when I handed out my questionnaire to peers in my class, they were very, very impressed with what they saw. For my poster, I wanted to catch the audience's eyes, I did this by using red font and colour to represent blood and I used very good detail at the credits below. My demo sequence or trailer I think was also very effective. I used iMovie with my trailer because I thought it was easier to make with iMovie rather than any other software. I think it was an effective preview because you had a very good idea on what the story was, despite being a teaser trailer. There was a lot of good detail that is in the trailer that the audience could understand and, from the feedback I got, it was hugely entertaining to watch. The key scenes they said they enjoyed were the particular fast pace scenes of zombies killing humans, so I used more of those clips in my advert and the audience enjoyed it even more. If I could think of any changes to my demo sequence, I could have used more shots from my own camera, rather than using clips from YouTube as the audience could have related to it more because it is near where they live.
If I had to encourage 'fandom', I would create a website that the audience can look at, before and after watching the film, to keep that sense of anticipation more, so that the audience can see if there is any future plans for a second film, and with this website, I would allow a setting where the audience can pre-book the DVD after seeing the film if they enjoyed it more.
When my film gets released, I would want my movie to have a standard release, which means that it is released on DVD and blu-ray. I would want my movie to be released to cinemas in July, if that is the case, I would want my DVD to be released in the middle of November/end of November, as with a standard release the DVD is released 16 and a half weeks after cinema release. I don't think I would want my movie to be made available for free-to-air TV because some scenes in my movie would be very unsuitable for children aged between 12-15 and might scare or frighten them.
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