PRE PRODUCTION - 2.2

As the shoot involves zombies, a lot of blood, wounds, maggots, death and animal body parts it's safe to say the genre of my project is horror. I researched some zombie photo shoots and most of them are located in a dark environment such as a woodland area or a street in the night-time.

This is the biggest convention when shooting anything within the horror genre. I will use this convention but also break it too by doing another zombie shoot in the daytime. This will still have great effect because it allows you then to show a lot more detail of the surrounding area and and by having natural light it gives me more freedom when playing with lighting in photoshop. In both of the images above, girls are used. 

A lot of images I found on the internet were mostly female populated whereas in my shoots I am having 2 male zombies and 1 female. Although in one of my shoots the girl is going to be an innocent human but in the other she is going to be a zombie. Also something i didn't see when researching zombie photos was the use of animals. In previous photography projects I have used a lambs heart - Photo below.

Because of the positive reaction I received by using a real anatomical heart i have decided to use them again along with a real skinless goats head. I was able to get one of these from an African food market and it only cost me £3. The goats head will have an amazing impression when people look over the photos because it isn't something you would think you could get hold of easily or cheaply. The market also had head with skin still on but the skinless ones look so much more disgusting and powerful and will be easier to add make up to in order for it to look more gross because you can see the muscle and flesh and all that will need to be done to it is have red food colouring and fake blood painted onto it.