Animatic Progression

The emergency broadcast 

 ( This shot will be taken later in the evening )
The zombies find the camp

 First sign of the zombies running through the woods

Some of the shots which are going into the animatic trailer

Some of the shots which are going into the animatic trailer

The camp

Leaving the town, entering the woods

On the way into town

Chase scenes (these will be shot at dusk during trailer

Movie plot (The risen)

After an unknown plague hits a small market town in the south of Wales, five friends, all in the same year group ages 17 to 18 named Emile, Carter, John, Cat and Linda must all discover the cause of the infection as they appear to be immune to its deadly effects. As the group quickly find out, the plague is not the least of their problems as those killed by the deadly infection are seen to rise again, deformed and vicious with a hunger for the flesh of humans who are not infected. 
Some members who live in town, such as John, Carter, Linda and two others, picked up on their travel, Natalie and Marcus ascend from their houses to meet up with Emile and Cat  who come further out of town, in the country side. They meet up at an area in the woods that they used to use as a den back when they where children. They set up their camp here for a short period of time, in order to avoid town as that seems to be where to majority of zombies are based, and also to come to some agreement on a plan for survival.  Fortunately the members of the group living in the country both live on farms and possess weapons such as rifles and shotguns, and even a bow with a set of arrows, with enough ammo to get them into the town.
The members meeting up from the town have to use their instincts, creating weapons from household appliances such as kitchen knives, sports equipment and gardening tools like shovels. 
On the way to the woods, the group moving from the town stealth fully raid people’s deserted  homes for extra food and water, not knowing how long they would go without both, given the circumstances.  However, they lose Natalie and Marcus to a passing horde of infected on the main road leaving town. Narrowly escaping, the remaining three, John, Carter and Linda are forced to take a more unorthodox path out of town, using the sewers which fortunately for the trio have an exit in the woods that they plan to meet up at, the exit pipe flows into the stream which runs through the woods. It’s not till after the deaths of Natalie and Marcus that the group realise just how real this situation is, and how serious they have to take it now.
The group of friends then reunite at the woods very early in the morning before the sun had fully risen, exactly in the place where they planned, and just as they expected they had not ran into any danger in the woods since they get there. They then decide that it’s best to not stay long, a night at the most as they weren’t really too far out of town and couldn’t not attract too much attention to themselves. 
Arriving early in the woods meant that they had a chance to set up camp and a secure perimeter ready for the night. Emile and Cat spare what weapons and ammo they can to the other three. John, Carter and Linda then share their excess food and water with Emile and Cat. 
They stay for the one night at the camp, planning to make a move in the early hours of the morning to make a run through the town and look for survivors. The group take turns to keep watch for infected and the night passes by pretty smoothly. When it’s Emile’s turn to keep watch, everyone else is away in their tents and he hears a rattling sound coming from the sewage pipe, he wakes Carter, questioning him to whether or not he closed the pipes grid or not, but before Carter has a chance to answer, a zombie comes behind Emile and grabs hold of him, Emile being the bigger member of the group flips the zombie over his shoulder and shoots him with his rifle. The other members of the group are awoken by the gun shot and know exactly what needs to be done; they pack their things as quick as possible and device a quick plan. Rather than waiting till the morning the group needed to move into town now, before they attracted any more attention, despite the time being so late at night.  
They flee though the woods and take every back alley and shortcut they can think of to get into town, which results in a fortunate journey with minimal contact with the infected.
To increase their chances of survival for the rest of that night, the group makes haste towards the hold the old castle, with plans locking the gate and fortifying all entrances, but they soon discover that between them and the castle is a horde of infected that where passing through the main street in the town, which they believed to be their only passage to the castle. The horde are alerted by their presence as the group come out of an opening and are faced with their mass of numbers, the infected chase them back through the opening into the street and through the town. In attempt to lose the horde off the tails of the group Carter stays back and as a last stand to fights his way through the infected, blaming his self for bringing the infected to the woods after not locking the sewage grate.
Still traumatised by the loss of their group member, Emile, Cat, John and Linda make their way to the castle on there now clear path though the town, because of Carters sacrifice.
However, once at the castle they discover that there is a strange number of black vans parked at the entrance, destroyed and covered in bullet holes and stained with blood, curious of whats going on, Cat takes a look inside one of the vans and she is attacked by a zombie wearing a uniform bearing a strange logo on its chest. Cat is bitten on the neck, but before the zombie could take another bite John puts an arrow through the zombies eye and kills it. With a recent death mealy hours ago, the group where not keen on loosing another member so they take Cat into the castle, Emile carries her and John and Linda fortify the gates. 
They search the castle grounds in search for a safe area to set up camp and attempt to heal Cat when to their luck, Linda finds that dungeon that was fenced off from the public before the plague hit, was now made accessible and the gate had been open. Taking this opportunity, the group move into the dungeon in search for some sort of reason for the gate being open and maybe finding a clue to the vans parked outside. Before they ventured too far, Linda who studied first aid at her college  before the infection hit, used some of her medical supplies that shit brought with her from home, and bandaged up Cats wound in an attempt to control the bleeding. Cat with her high spirits, eager still to find out what the vans outside where for, pushes the group to move on through the dungeons.
 As they wander through the ancient caverns they soon discover that the dungeon had wires bolted to the walls, thick wires which looked like they could power a whole building. Deeper into the dungeon they go until their tracks are stopped by a large door, ajar with blood all over it. Through the door they find what appears to be a laboratory, abandoned at haste, judging by the coffee cups and papers lying around the place.
In the dim lit room, John finds a button on one of the control panels and out of curiosity decides to push it in a hope that something would happen. Without a second to spare the door they came through had locked behind them and alarms where sounding, the dim lit room was suddenly bursting with flashing red lights.
After being in that room for what seemed like hours, looking for a way out, considering there imminent death, everything shutdown. The lights went out, even the dim lights which had previously lit the room, the door also unlocked which they came through, but so did another door on the far side of the room. It appeared that the laboratory had lost all power, and the doors which locked them in where powered by the electronics in that building, meaning that now all the doors where unlocked. But the group really couldn’t decide whether this was a good thing.
Delving deeper into the now pitch black hallways of the laboratory, the group find a room which seems to be full of giant test tubes. Emile uses his flash light which was almost out of battery, to briefly see their surroundings. As the light scanned the room, Emile and the rest of the group caught a glimpse of what looked like a person, in one of the only unbroken test tubes, mutilated and quite possibly dead, it soon came to their attention that whoever ran this laboratory had been testing on humans, and had certainly been there a long time doing it. 
In haste, the group flee from the lab, picking up medical equipment and other helpful items on their way out. As they reach the entrance room that they came into first, they stopped and devised a plan. Reload all weapons, make every shot count, the plan is to get out of this dungeon, hope that the zombies haven’t got through the castle gate yet, then when everything was packed up, plough straight through the hordes of zombies surrounding the gates and make a run for the river just south of the castle, and follow the river to the next town, to see if the plague hit there too. 

Target audience- 15-25, both male and female
Genre- horror/zombie/survival 

The risen 

(Back story)

Five years before the events of the risen (2014), during the early stages of the war between Afghanistan and the united kingdom a company known as the Icarus Corporation created test facility in the south of Wales, in the woods a few miles away from a small market town. Icarus Corporation was a secret organisation that experimented with state of the art technology to create weaponry and defenses for the British army in order to give them the upper hand. However, the corporation worked in secret, meaning that they could not be questioned by the government or anybody else for their unorthodox methods. They where literally invisible, not even existing on the map due to a cloaking device the corporation used to hide their facility from anybody passing by, the area was known to the public as being an old mine field and it was never confirmed that every mine was deactivated. This served as the perfect plot to lure anyone away from the invisible facility.
Due to working in such secrecy the army force that they supplied their goods too where never permitted to set foot in the grounds in case of anyone seeing them enter, instead Icarus where smart about how they carried out their transactions with the army. 
When constructing the underground parts of the facility (where most of the actual structure was, rather than risking exposure on the surface during construction) the builders were told to dig underground tunnels connecting the facility with nearby towns without anybody knowing. 
These tunnels where at least two miles beneath the ground to ensure that nobody could hear the sound of the drills digging through the underground as they constructed the tunnels. Whenever the corporation needed to exchange their goods for funds with the army they would use one of these tunnels, where there would be a task force of Icarus guards waiting at the other end, these guards would then escort the goods to the rendezvous set by the army. The army would get their goods, win another battle, and the Icarus Corporation would receive their funds, and get one step closer to their real goal. The goal of which they kept secret from the army, domination. 
Within the facility, Icarus Corp’ had bigger plans for their research. They believed themselves to be more important than the forces they supplied and even more powerful, so they took matters into their own hands without consulting the army. 
They plotted to create their own force, more powerful than any army that has fought on the earth since the beginning of time. But to do this they need people, test subjects, hundreds of them. 
In 2017 Icarus corporation launched a project in which they would send out groups of specially trained solders into the night and abduct people of all ages and genders from the nearby towns that connected by the tunnels. The plan worked perfectly, with each group using the same technology used on the facility to cloak them as they moved swiftly through the night, abducting people from every corner of the town, but being careful not alert to much attention to themselves. 
The corporation knew of course that it would not be before long until the police got involved and effected their plan, but before the police could even send out search parties, the solders where ordered to stop the abductions as Icarus had all they needed.
Three days of raiding the towns for test subjects went by and Icarus already had hundreds of people abducted and locked away in holding cells, on the lowest level of the facility.
It was clear that the police where on red alert in search for all the missing people from the area but there was absolutely no clue left behind by the icarus solders to where they were taken, as each group of soldiers would insert sleeping gas through the vents in the homes while cloaked, then use devices known as skeleton keys, provided through Icarus research, to open the door as if opening it with a normal house key. They could then slip into the home undetected to snatch their chosen test subject. All gas canisters where then carefully disposed of and they would leave the home in the exact way it was before, leaving no trace of anyone even being there.  
With the Icarus corporation in possession of over a hundred people to test on, there real plan could now finally unfold. The chair man of Icarus Corporation, ordered the workers of the facility to expose each test subject to what the corporation called the husk virus. The researchers at the facility worked on this virus for the army as a chemical weapon which they specified to wipe the memory of anyone it was exposed to. 
The British army planned to use this chemical weapon on Afghanistan, to end all conflict, but in a way that did not murder innocent civilians. They then planned to move task forces into Afghan towns and teach all those affected by the weapon how to do everything again. 
However before the chemical could even be finished Afghanistan declared a peace treaty with the British forces in 2016, making the research useless to the army, but not useless for Icarus.
The corporation tampered with the husk virus so that not only would it wipe the memory of those it was exposed to but it would also speed up muscle growth, make them more alert and have much faster reflexes that the average human being. They then planned to teach those infected to be killing machines for Icarus, knowing only to kill. 
Despite the Icarus Corps’ extensive research and planning into their project, every test subject that the exposed to the husk virus soon died alone in their cell before they showed any signs of any symptoms that they had planned. With that plan ruined the chairman of Icarus ordered that all body’s where to be removed from their cells and burnt in the furnace room so that no trace of their deaths could ever be found, backed up by nobody even knowing their location.
So on during the late months of 2018, the workers at the icarus facility carried out their orders and made their way to clear out every cell in the lower levels where the subjects where kept. The dead had been there for a few days before the order was made and they appeared to be very skinny and pale skinned. When the buzzers went off alerting the facility that the cells where open, the workers moved in and started their job, but to their surprise the dead rose. 
In each cell, the test subjects rose from the dead, with gaunt skull like faces and red bloodshot eyes, hungry for flesh. They attacked the workers and tore them limb from limb eating their flesh and moving on to the next group. Not expecting it at all, the workers were not armed and stood no chance against the horde of hundreds of undead. 
In panic, Icarus chairman ordered that the lower levels where to be shut off from the rest of the facility but it wasn't quick enough, the horde moved fast through the levels, even the facility’s guards where overrun by the infected, there was just too many of them to be stopped by the small amount of solders the facility had onsite at that present time. There was no stopping them, and it wasn't long before they were close to the surface and that’s when the chairman had to make the hardest decision of his life, eradication. 
The chairman of Icarus Corporation was based in a tower, sat at the highest part of the facility, (it was that tower which emitted the cloaking field) and in his tower he could control the rest of the facility. 
Sacrificing his own life and all those workers who still ran from the infected inside, he made the decision to self destruct the facility, destroying all the underground and completely leveling the surface. The explosion was a singularity device, created by the Icarus Corp themselves, that would destroy anything in the radius of the device without an explosion unlike any normal bomb, so that in an emergency like this, nobody would know that anything was happening unless they stood directly outside the fenced off area of ‘the mine field’. 
Before the hordes could reach the surface, the chairman detonated the singularity device and the whole facility caved in on its self. The surface levels dropped into the underground, and the lower levels where crushed by anything above, all those inside where either crushed by debris or killed by the infected. 
The cloaking device that hid the facility was still emitting the field as it fell with the rest of the facility, now all that can be seen is a bumpy bit of terrain with in the ‘mine field’. 
It won’t be long until the emitter loses power and flattened facility is revealed to the world, but none of that matters anymore to the Icarus Corporation as they are now cease to exist.  
However, before the whole facility was destroyed and before the chairman even set off the singularity device, some of the infected escaped into the tunnels of which the Corporation used for their transactions with the army, and the majority of them escaped through tunnel 13, the one which lead straight into the old dungeon at Abergavenny castle.

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AlexPitt-A2-media-blog: Some of the shots which are going into the animati...: The camp Leaving the town, entering the woods On the way into town Chase scenes (these will be shot at dusk during t...

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