Question One

G321 ~ Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the conventions of real media products?

Shaun of the dead
zombie/comedy

Resident Evil
Zombie horror

We have kept well and close to the conventions of the two genre we had chosen. We had made it equal in both ways. Through the first half on the moors. We have the zombie feel to it. And when we cut to the house we have the humorous side to it, though still keeping to the zombie idea, because that was are strong point. We did change it a little bit. Through numerous convocation /drafts /story boards. We did try to mix it up with different types of camera shots that wouldn't usually be placed into a zombie comedy or a comedy for that matter. We wanted to cuts to be sharp and short when we came to the zombie, because before hand. Everything ran smooth and longer than the other half of the movie. We made sure the comedy was there. Even though it was being done through one character who was on his own. So we made the humor through things he did and the environment around them.

Things we twisted...

Another one of our leading un-dead zombies

Are lead female character/zombie
(myself) 

We made sure that our hero was completely venerable and did not even attempt to attack the un-dead as they came piling into his house. We also did not give the un-dead any noises. To in a way make it seem more eerie or mysterious, Like the un-dead was not un-dead fully. possibly still partly human. knowing that the female character came to the males house even, though she was attacked and 'killed' and we in a sense made will a ladies man. due to the two lead female zombies blocking will from leaving the house and having to hid.  the zombies was not ugly looking so we made then quiet attractive and we did not apply much make-up to them, to add the feeling like they are still human. but not fully 'all there' usually you would have a hero that knows what he is doing and can escape the city with not problem, but because it was an average teenager, who probably knew how to kill zombies, he just hid away.

The Music...

The music we was going to use

we had everything planned out to a T but thing went pared shaped and due to editing and filming, we did not have enough time to email anyone and gets the song(s) we needed or wanted. so in the end we just used what we could get. mostly sounds to add humor to the film, because we were finding it difficulty to keep the humor there.