Film Locations

Jack Cham's

We will be filming at Jack Cham's for the interviews with one of our main characters; Mr. K, this will be an ideal location for these interviews seeing as the character of Mr. K is an upcoming business who is exploiting the dead for his own personal gain; using them as dancer's to appeal to a new age fetish with the undead. Luckily because Ross (Producer) is good friends with the bars owner we will be able to use this location on Sundays free of charge.

Here at the bar is where I feel the main portion of the interview with Mr. K will be shot, as I feel that a big businessman behind the bar will portray an image of a strong character to the audience, giving the audience visual information about the type of man Mr. K is; a strong and powerful character that is out for personal gain at the expense of others.

Thai Palace

Luckily Damian's parents own a local Thai restaurant that we are able to use on weekends (again free of charge) here is where we will have a couple going out for a meal whilst being interviewed; one half of the couple being a zombie (Barry). Here we feel we will be able to show some of the public's reactions to zombies by having extras in the background during this scene reacting differently to the couple being interviewed. 

The main portion if not all of this scene will be shot with the couple (Amy & Barry) at a table in the restaurant, with various cutaways of peoples reactions to them sharing a meal at a restaurant with a zombie present. From this shot you can see that there are plants next to the table where we will position the zombie Barry - one from the point of view that the restaurant owners though needing all the money they can get, still are trying to hide the zombie from incoming customers and secondly I thought it might be a nice touch to have Barry to be fascinated by the plants (life itself) and reach out for them (i.e. desiring true life existence) and maybe have a customer pass by and misinterpret Barry's movement as an aggressive attack.

Damian's Reception Room and Back Garden

Here we will be using the front room in Damian's house for an interview with our characters Amy & Barry; this is because Damian's parents just had the place renovated and its very clean and we can easily dress the room up with fake family photos of Amy & Barry to make the scene look like a homely environment. It's also a good idea to shoot the initial interview with Amy & Barry in a place where their characters would feel most comfortable I feel and this certainly happens a lot in terms of documentary film-making.

The Stills above and below are two mantelshelves that are in Damian's front room in which we can put up the fake family photos of Amy & Barry before he became a zombie; these will act as nice cutaways and will hopefully help our audience with connecting with the human side of Barry's character and increase the sympathy and understanding for Amy.

In Damian's back garden is where we are planning to film Amy cleaning Barry down with a hose pipe, this will hopefully be a very funny scene, but will hopefully have the audience understanding a bit more about the challenges that Amy faces in her day-to-day life; the simple task of personal hygiene for Barry is now too messy for the house and has to be taken outside to be taken care of. 

Plymouth Hoe

With our mockumentary we are looking to get the protesters/left wing point of view across with interviews with members of the Rights of Zombies movement; it Occupy Plymouth movement became apparent as a great opportunity for use and our film; with our film directly looking at the idea of exploitation, why not conduct interviews directed in front of the Occupy Plymouth movement in turn exploiting their aims & objectives for our personal gain; Giving our film a true indexical exploitative texture.

This location above on the Plymouth Hoe we are planning to use for the scenes in which our couple Amy & Barry are getting re-married, above would be where we'd have them having their photos taken after the ceremony and possibly conducting an interview with them with this as a backdrop.

Here is a shot that I've composed that I feel might work in the final edit, with our character Amy sat looking out at the beautiful view on the Hoe; with maybe her interview playing over the top of her reminiscent joy on such a beautiful day for her wedding; giving the film a beautiful outlook on a challenging relationship and hopefully connecting with the audience on how Amy sees her life as beautiful and seeing past of the rotting flesh of Barry and only seeing the true beauty of their relationship. Something I'd hope this would come across to our audience is that "you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover"; this is where the zombie could be compared to over challenges with people being in a relationship with any other countless disabilities.

Registry Office

The shot here of the Registry Office which is where we are planning to shoot the wedding scene of Amy & Barry; I've composed this shot, as I feel that as acting as a documentary film crew, I think that under the circumstances of our characters and what we are being privileged to document their lives I feel as a crew we would be respectful towards not disrupting and intruding on their special day, but yet we'd still deeply desire to film the occasion and that we as documentary film-makers would film from a distance, giving the audience a voyeuristic view into their life.