Tale 53: The start of a production.

Tale 53 – Summery

A student based mini series based as a loose adaption of the Brothers Grimm’s ‘Snow White’ that is set within a zombie apocalypse.

The story follows Scarlett, a young woman who is lost in a world where survival is everything. We will see her progression from the beginning of an outbreak, to her facing difficult choices during the progression of a zombie apocalypse. In this setting resources of all kinds are dwindling quickly with less than 1% of the Human population still alive.

We will be creating a brief event of where Scarlett is during the time of the initial outbreak, and to try and give an insight on how rapidly the infection spreads and how it causes panic and a lack of options to control the outbreak.

This will progress to two years after the outbreak, where all forms of a social structure are nearly destroyed, with the rest of the population living groups to survive. Resources will also be hard to come by with a lot of the visuals being makeshift, using the most out of what they can find.

There will be conflicts between both the living and the un-dead. Their will essentially be three groups of the living within the production with a varied beliefs on the best way to survive, causing conflict with one another. The un-dead will become an issue in several ways and will be seen by the survivors under different names for the ‘different personalities’:

·         Swarm - Believed to act in a sort of hive mind where the group of zombies goes from place to place and act as a collective unit.

·         Roamers – Stray zombies that have broken off from the Swarm, these seem to act less aggressive and simply roam around looking for food.

·         Sleepers – Zombies that have deteriorated so much that they no longer have the same responses as other zombies, usually seen looking dead and waking only when people are in very close proximity.

·         Empties – The zombies that have little to no function, they no longer try to eat but only to infect. They are progressing from Roamers to Sleepers.

·         Husks – A generic term used to describe a zombie, a husk (corn) is hollow and empty.

So far we have had nice feedback from the public, and have completed a fully fleshed out treatment for all six episodes.