Our task is to create an original film concept that is in one of the genres that we have studied - zombie horror or romantic comedy. I have decided to make my film in the genre of zombie horror as it is a sub-genre that is continuously expanding within conventions that I can use to create an innovative and new zombie film concept. My film is called Morality
The basic plot for my film follows a lone survivor who from a troubled past of having to kill her zombie met family has become extremely independent and brave. She travels alone with the main priority of surviving - she will do whatever she has to to live. However her morals of survival change when she almost dies when she cannot find any water; to her fortune another lone survivor finds her and brings her back to health at the best of her ability. From this our main character has the immediate reaction to just leave her rescuer and continue to survive alone, but through conversation allowing her to realise that both of them have things in common (being alone) and that they would both benefit from each other (she being brave and skilled, while her rescuer is weak and vulnerable but knows where they can find resources) they stick together. The film will watch their journey of trying to get to the town and along the way we find out about both of their pasts (rescuer was separated from her family). Their journey brings them closer, so close that when the rescuer unfortunately gets bit by a zombie and dies our main character's original morals are changed - she ventures to find her rescuers family to let them know what's happened rather than going to the town for resources to survive. Through her travels, apart from zombies being a bump in the road, she finds herself other humans, villains. When she battles through said villains she finally finds her rescuers family and the film ends with her finding them - therefore completing her mission.
The overall idea of this concept is to show the theme of survival of the fittest versus human nature of being in a team/family; I was influenced by the characters and storyline's in the films that we have studied. Firstly, in 'Cargo' I found that the storyline of the main character doing whatever he can to get his daughter to safety not only a moving concept but a different take on most conventional zombie horror films. This then influenced my idea of making my main character making it her sole mission to let her rescuers family know what happened to her. Furthermore. from the film '28 Days Later' I was influenced by the heroine Serena, she was presented to be firstly as a independent women doing everything to survive and throughout you see her develop which is what I want my character to do however in different ways. Lastly, I was influenced by 'Dawn of the Dead' as it had the themes of human nature and forming families which will be seen a lot in my film concept.
The main character is the hero/heroine of the film. She is brave and independent, all she wants to do is to survive. The reason for her personality and morals is due to the fact that her family turned into zombies and she was faced with the task of killing them. However, throughout the rest of the film you see her develop and change her morals from surviving to living.
As for the second main character you could also say is the heroine as she is the reason for the change. She is somewhat the opposite of the other character as although independent, she is vulnerable, unskilled and struggling to survive. She also lost her family, however they're not dead they are just separated and her mission is to let them know she is alive. She has the priority of trying to rebuild society which rubs off on the other main character.
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