Research:

Today I researched zombie film adverts, trailers and opening sequences. This is a crucial part of researching as it shows what tends to occur in zombie/horror films and what the audience like to see. It also shows us what works in these films and what doesnt, it gives us an idea, as A level students, of what we could possibly do to make it seem like a realistic and proffesionally made zombie film.
The first thing i found with what most zombie films have in common, is that they all have scenes which involve the actors running about madly and irraticly, a mix of "zombies" and humans. It creates a sense of anarchy and really potrays what it would be like if something like that happend in real, everyday society. It intensely shows the mayhem of a society that has been turned on its head and shows the real struggle for survival and, in a way, is showing survival of the fittest at its most intense level.
I also noticed that most of the zombie films seemed to end with a main character always tending to survive the "zombie outbreak" and managing to solve the problem single handedly rather than really struggling to survive. Although they already are unrealistic films, this detaches even further from a sense of reality and can, in some cases, ruin the film for people. It makes it seem as if any average human being could survive what no one else could.
From these 2 facts i've seen with zombie films, me and my group will now have to see whether we want to try and make our film seem as realistic as possible, or stretch reality and make a film that is unrealistic and could lose interest with some viewers.

-James