Dead Weekend

[†CrimsonKing†]

Yo, im making a movie this summer with some friends. Its a zombie flick  , and i need more scenerio ideas. Any suggestions?

[CyberNinjaWalrus]

Post outbreak. Its been about 2 months since the incedent and half the continent has been quarentined. No one can get in or out, that includes the pockets of survivors that are scattered around the area. You and your friends are stuck in the quarentine zone, and need to find a way out...... 

          How's that? Its not very original, but its something.

[†CrimsonKing†]

Thats good, get the ideas flowin! How its starting though, we were gonna get my friend Jose to walk down the street at night and stop under a street lamp. He's gonna check his cell phone and look up to see some guy step out of the darkness towards him. Thinking him a drunk coming from the party he is headed to, he walks up to him and tries to talk to him. When the zombie tries to bite him, Jose pushes him down. When the zombie gets up and grabs him, Jose pulls the zombie into the light and sees the blood all over him. His eyes get wide as the zombie goes for the bite. Then the title comes up. What do you think?

[Robin Holmes]

Well, I'm hooked.

[OVERKILL]

 You could combine the 2 ideas. Use the opening with Jose and flash the title. The screen fades to black and then slowly fades back in on your crew 2 months later running full sprint towards a building in the distance ( with plenty of obstacles between you and the shelter, conveniently placed so you can show off your Parkour skills). Upon arrival inside you find out that some of your crew has gathered info on a weakness in the quarantine zone's barricade ( a cliff or river or something that was left unguarded because zombies could not cross it). In between all kinds of battles and skirmishes, flashbacks to when the military rolled in and set up the quarantine zone, flashbacks to tea parties, uh MANLY thing, very manly things. For the ending you could use Jose ( if he survived the intro, you could use a flashback to show how he survived), who had been on the ground struggling with a zombie for whatever reason. The survivors make it to free land and are yelling and celebrating when they turn to see Jose hunkered down, facing away from the group and the camera of course. They continue to call to him and edge closer. As someone reaches out to tap his shoulder Jose turns and lunges towards the camera and the credits roll, Horror 101 ending, and it kinda brings the story full circle, it starts and ends with him.

 What kind of zombies are you going to use? Any symptoms of infection beforehand?

[†CrimsonKing†]

Well we are going to use the typical slow zombie. Only for the sake of the comedy aspect we are rolling with. (Nice idea with the parkour obstacles by the way. Love it ) Anyway......... i really like that idea but we have limited places to use and limited material so its gonna be one of those sucky movies but hey, its gonna be fun. But i just finished the first scene of the script today. I'll post it later so you guys can kinda help work out the kinks. But if you guys can, i need help on weapon ideas. We were planning on using those pop pistols that fire smoke then edit the blood and stuff later. Any ideas to help on this one?

[Robin Holmes]

Don't use knives unless you're absolutely sure you won't kill each other with them. Ditto anything bigger. If you can get prop knives, it would help. Cap guns sound like a good idea, but remember. You're still going to have a rather smoky setup, unless you've got a way to dissapate the smoke on cue.

[OVERKILL]

 If you don't want the smoke lingering in the scene, you could handle it with cuts. EXAMPLE, you shoot a zombie, then cut to a different angle (pause and reposition camera if using a single camcorder) to show the shooter having problems coping with what happened or an ultra gory closeup of the zombie.

 If you can get a hold of some yardsticks they are good cheap items to use to make fake knives. The wood is about the right thickness and easy to carve, you can lay a real knife flat on the yardstick and trace the outline, carve, then paint. If you have any knives that have handles held on with screws (where the tang of the blade makes the outline of the handle with wood bolted onto either side) it would make.
 A simplistic design would be a "tactical" tanto. The point is just a 45 degree angle with no curves, spraypaint the whole thing flat black and wrap the handle with some green paracord and you've got a decently real looking knife.

[†CrimsonKing†]

Sounds great. An idea i got from The Deadliest Warrior is to put lipstick on the fake knife's blade. Then, when you cut, it leaves a red line. This can be used in editing to pinpoint the areas of the cut

[†CrimsonKing†]

(sorry for the double post but it is needed)

Here, i present to you my friends, the first scene of the movie's script!

"Dead Weekend"
By: Dalton Armstrong (my real name)

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<It's a dark night. Jose walks along the street and stops under a street light. Eyes half closed, mouth agape, he peers into the gloom in drunken curiousness. A figure approaches. A decaying stench fills the air>

Jose: <peering into the gloom, drunk, he sees the figure and waves> Hey there buddy!  You thinking you can point me toos the parties? <he cracks a smile>

Figure: <moans and shuffles closer>

Jose: <Still drunk, he moves towards the figure> Hey man, are you wasted? <high giggle> If so dudes, you must know where them parties is!

<Jose moves closer to the figure and puts his hand on its shoulder. The figure grabs him by the forearm and leans down to bite into Jose's flesh. Jose pushes the figure off and it falls to the ground>

Jose: Whoa there bros! You don't goes touchin me now! I'll kick your a**! <puts his fists up in a fighting gesture, they roll lazily at the writsts>

Figure: <maons and rises to its feet>

Jose: Get back dude!

Figure: <shuffles toward Jose and grabs him by the shoulders, pushing both of them into the street light>

<Jose sees the figure's face. Its mouth was ringed with blood, which dripped down the front of its shirt. Blood covered most of its front. He could see the figure was male and that his face was gashed under the right eye and that a gash was on his neck>

Jose: <a suprised look came across his face. He spoke in a high pitched voice of terror> What the.....what the hell happened to you!

Figure: <pushes Jose to the ground. His mouth descends upon Jose's throat>

Jose: <wet gurgling sounds as the zombie eats his throat>

<Blood spatters the screen. Everything fades to black. The title fades in>

[†CrimsonKing†]

came up with a new idea! Gonna film a small news footage segment and make it a dvd. then, during the movie, the dvd will be in the dvd player and while the cameras not looking, we turn it on like its the real news. you know, add alittle realism to the facade

[†CrimsonKing†]

would really love some postive feedback on the movie's first scene............any time now...............

[OVERKILL]

 I didn't reply because you left out the part where the soundtrack cues up, all I hear is Motorhead's Ace Of Spades, but that's all my brain plays anymore and that one's been done already. Oh, yeah the writing's good, but what about the music?

[Admin]

Dude, I'm diggin the Zombie flick opening scene! I agree with Overkill Though... figure out the sound-track, and you'll have a winner!

(and be sure to point people to nozombies.com/forum in the credits, so they can see how to survive the invasion!) (I love shameless plugs)

[†CrimsonKing†]

beleive me dude, this site is in the credits IN BOLD 

but with the soundtrack idea, we have a few ideas but this is just the rough draft so far. when we get a winner, i'll post it. thx for the feedback