Woo!

So far we are almost ready to film.
The set location has been figured out, we will be swapping between Shae and her cousins house for filming. Shae and I went and bought the last things that we needed for filming a couple days ago, so we just need to make sure that the other things are brought in by the extras.
We have decided that our head make up artists are Matt and Peta, as Matt can do scar make up and Peta wanted to do the zombie make up, so on the day, they are coming early to do Hannah and I's make up, to show us what they are doing so that we can help out and get through everyone faster.
We currently have approximately 20 zombies, which is useful incase people can't come on the day.
Our nerds are set, but Peta is no longer able to make her sword, so we will either have to find her a new weapon or go out and buy one. The Death Note has been created, so we now only need one more weapon.
We are all quite excited for this, and hopefully it will go smoothly.

May the odds be ever in our favour.

Zombies (you know that you've been waiting for this)

Here are some designs for zombie make up that we may be able to tweak and use for our music video.

Costume designs so far

These are the general costume designs for the nerds and locations of the bites for the zombies. The cast can choose which costume they would prefer to wear, but I don't think Matt will go for the skirt. Also the design for the zombies makeup is currently being tweaked as the one on here was just a rough idea for where their bites will be and the Light costume is supposed to have a tie... I just accidentally rubbed it out. The I can't get the femme version of Luke to look nerdy enough (hence why she currently looks like a cheerleader), so that needs to be tweaked as well.

Nerds and Their Weapons

Nerd 1: Peta Morton
Whovian who for some reason has a backpack full of weapons

Inspiration for character: The 11th Doctor

 
Weapon of choice: Sword (uses Sonic Screwdriver to find out that the other members of the party are zombies)

 Nerd 2: Matt Smith [not the guy above]
Huge fan of anime (especially Death Note)

Inspiration for character: Light Yagami

Weapon of choice: Death Note (apparently they know the names of all of the members of the party, probably hacked into the school files again)

Nerd 3: Tayla Fiteni
Potterhead (need I say more?)

Inspiration for character: Harry Potter

Weapon of choice: Wand

Nerd 4: Courtney Ede
Loves Star Wars

Inspiration for character: Luke Skywalker

Weapon of choice: Lightsaber

Cast/Crew

Crew:
Shae - Camera man that never gets eaten (except in Zombieland)
Hannah - Also zombie
Millie - Also zombie
Julian - Bartender/ zombie


Nerds:
Peta - Whovian with a backpack armoury 
Matt - Anime Lover
Courtney (1) - Star Wars Fan girl
Tayla - Potterhead

Zombies:
Ilona
Geo
Rhiana
James
Charli
Jackson
Alyshia
Melissa
Courtney (2)
Emily
 
 (Not all zombies are confirmed, so awesomeness depends on who shows up)

Song Split

As part of our task we are required to storyboard a part of our music video each. Our group has decided to split our video into five parts. The first is set before the music starts, this we shall be storyboarding together as we still haven't decided what to place in it. The song will then be split so that each member of the group has 54 seconds to storyboard each as the song goes for 3:34 seconds and that was as close to an even split as we could get.

Music videos

Our latest task is to create a full length music video using the skills that we have acquired over the course of our time in media.

I am in a group with Hannah, Shae and Millie and we have chosen to create a video with comedy and horror as it's main genre. 

Our chosen song is T.N.T by AC/DC and will be played throughout the video (with the exception of the first and possibly last few seconds). 

The main concept is that a group of nerds will go to their first party/club and a chemical that spreads the zombie infection will somehow make it's way into all of the alcohol, leaving the nerds unaffected as they will only be drinking sodas. They will then realise what has happened and hide in fear before gaining the courage to fight their way out of the club/house bring grab weapons from their back pack (they're nerds! of course they would have brought a backpack along!). They will then begin to fight the zombies back and the weapons that they have will work just as they are supposed to in their original shows/movies (so we can use a death note). The nerds will fight their way out of the place and then walk out into the open trying to walk like the "cool heroes" in movies do when they leave a building, before the zombies start to stumble out of the door. seeing this, the nerds will run off screaming.

We plan to use comic book style editing in our video, a lot like the one used in Avril Lavigne's music video for her song Rock N Roll.

It is going to be quite a challenge to do this video but I am quite excited to start the filming and editing for this project so we have dived straight into planning. We plan to film in the holidays so that we can have everyone there at once and also so that we don't interrupt anyone's classes and have enough time to sort out the zombies.