Diary Post 5

In this lesson we decided on the title of our film. We came up with the name genesis, as it linked to the idea of the creation of a new race - the zombies. We began to research more into the book of genesis, and decided to include quotes from the creation story into our treament.

The modified treatment is below;

“In the beginning god created man, then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground” so God created mankind in his own image.

But God fucked up.

God didn’t think about the consequences of his actions, and neither did you. You thought it was a cure, you thought it would save millions, but your naivety has led you astray from the truth.  I created the E-396 strain purely for the development of a supreme race, free from the idiocy of you primitive humans. In your desperation, you all too readily accepted it as a savior from cancer, but in reality it will be your damnation”.

[dialogue overlaid]

“What you see now is the effect of the vaccine pulsing through their veins. For all of those that have been injected, their time is drawing closer to an end.

 The strain will strip them of their humanity, and soon the vaccine will have inhabited their skin and bones, taking control of whom they once were. Those that are already infected have been left with an uncontrollable rage and a craving for human flesh. Soon enough the virus will become airborne and it will develop into a global epidemic. You can try to escape it, but your perish is inevitable”. 

After this we began looking a title fonts. We did this by thinking about the kind of things we wanted to connote with them, and also by looking through 'art of the title' for some inspiriation. We liked the bloody effect seen in 'Dawn of The Dead' and set about recreating this, as you can see from the title fonts post.

When we had finished college, we traveled to different locations to get location shots. We had ideas about where we were going to go, but needed to inspect them properly before proceeding with any shooting. We are incredibly pleased with the places we have found, particularly the derelict building, which can be seen in the Location Photos post.