THE ZOMBIES

i was watching George A. Romero's Day of the Dead last night.
one of the things that stuck out to me was how much detail went into the zombies costumes.
there was a clown, and woman in washing up gloves, a soldier and i swear i saw a guy in a sambarino hat!

what i'm saying is all the extras who are going to be zombies should come up with their own little story (yeah i know it won't be told in the movie) and costume.

here's a simple idea for one:
a man in a black suit with black tie - he was at his uncles funeral looking into the open coffin and his uncle jumped up and bit him.

i just think it would be quite cool and it's quite fun coming up with a back story.

and please someone wear a sambarino hat!

Sambarino? Are you SURE you don't mean sombrero?

I think it's a great idea to have little stories for the zombies to add to the variety, but I also think it could be difficult to get costumes to fit the specific stories. However, if someone who's playing a zombie finds something at a thrift store and feels inspired, such creativity should be rewarded, though if all the zombies are wacky and creative, that poses us with a new problem. ^_^

But yeah. Part of what makes that one-armed zombie that enters the house in Shaun of the Dead interesting is that he's actually wearing a wedding outfit, which isn't particularly wacky, but gives an added level to that part of the film. Likewise, Mary is a check-out clerk at the mall and then of course there's Tyres from Spaced among the other zombies.

One consideration is that with any film, to give it a somewhat unified look, you need a colour palette. You can to a degree mute the colours of the clothing the zombies wear, but if a zombie clown is walking around in full bloom, that zombie will scream out for attention no matter how far in the background s/he is. Likewise if you just have someone with any kind of very bright costume.

However, I do absolutely agree that whenever possible, we should try to think of such things as back stories for the zombies.

Magnulus wrote:Sambarino? Are you SURE you don't mean sombrero?

woops...i got it mixed up with the sambarino washing powder.

I was talking to a friend of mine about this project and he said we should have a bunch of zombies walking down the street in party hats and have one of the character say, "Look! It's the fundead!"

Corny, but I laughed.

Thats actually not a bad idea, I could also see how this could work with other back stories

Like a prisoner being executed at a jail then coming back as a Zombie to eat the guards.

OR

Someone getting shot in a gangland battle and then coming back to like to eat his friends

Well, those are fairly elaborate stories that wouldn't really fit into the film, but you could certainly have thug zombies and prisoner zombies and jailor zombies. ^_^

vnflcards wrote:I was talking to a friend of mine about this project and he said we should have a bunch of zombies walking down the street in party hats and have one of the character say, "Look! It's the fundead!"

Corny, but I laughed.

lol, that is so something that could be said by one of the Teenage Zombie Kids! XD

Meh, I agree with Max Brooks in saying that people are going to be in emergency stations and stuck in evacuations or at the hospital when they get attacked. Not at weddings, birthday parties or the disco which means that they'll typically be wearing whatever they could take from their house in a few seconds.

I'd rather guess that people will be coming from all sorts of situations. I don't doubt that some people might be at weddings and some people at home. A wedding is like a huge feast for the zombie hordes.

But lets not all go into the realms of fantasy.
Not all people on London are going to be dressed as a stereotypical frenchman, chef, fireman or space-suit.

If there aren't at LEAST ten Elisabethan merchants and a few orcs among the zombies, I'll jump ship.

Oh, and zombie Osmonds.

zombie Osmonds!?! hehe

What kind of zombies, flesh tearing blood splattered ones, eyes that stare into you as they approach.

Be nice to see zombies in diffrent social group, they were normal people doing a job, fireman, police, nurse etc then bitten.

Iain

Perhaps next we need a red indian, fireman, a builder, an army guy, a traffic cop and biker (with handlebar tash)........

Sorry, realise this might be taken as sarcastic. Just thought of the funky disco group The Village Poeple as these job titles were being reeled off.

nowherepixie wrote:zombie Osmonds!?! hehe

Osmonds? Like Donnie and Marie?