On Zombies and Zombie Costumes

First off, I'm going to be late to the meeting tomorrow, for some indeterminate amount of time.  (and, as an addendum, if anyone wants to see what I've been killing myself recently working on, the Senior Game Design final project presentation is in the big earth and marine lecture hall from 5-7 on June 5). But assuming we don't, like, end early, I'll be there later.

That said, I figure I'll contribute here what I'd probably contribute to the discussion I'll probably miss:

Our zombies don't need raggedy shirts a la typical of the dead walking. There's two reasons for this: 

The first, and most simple, given the distance between the actors on stage and the audience in a theater production, small details like a tear in a shirt are harder to communicate than large, exaggerated motions like a cliche zombie walk. Dragging your feet and having your arms reaching out is what would really tell someone you're a zombie.

Secondly, these aren't regular zombies. Regular zombies represent, among other things, the terror of mankind reverting to its animal instincts. The worn down clothes are caused by the symbolic casting off of modern society and its conveniences.

These zombies feed on the financial aid of the student/humans. They represent the aspects of the university that take away our funding; beurocracy in human form, and then stripped of anything that makes them humane.  They're The Man without any humanity.

...which is why our zombies totally need to be wearing nice clothing. They still need face paint 'n stuff to look inhuman, but I don't think that the regular "shambling corpse" trope fits in with the deeper themes we're totally going for here.

-Andrew Ben Hartman

Wednesday Meeting

Also if possible, can people bring black sharpies, glowsticks, tape, string, and possibly an extra shirt. I was thinking maybe we can have a couple people be human props as buildings. OOO and boxes. If you have boxes bring them.

Wednesday Meeting

So we're all meeting at 5pm tomorrow at Liz's house to work on the props for the live design. If you can't make it at 5pm, that's okay. Just be sure to show up some point during the night so we can rehearse. And, bring an old t-shirt or something so we can make the zombie/crew costumes.
Also we'll be meeting at 8:30 am on Thursday morning to practice and set up all the props. See you guys tomorrow!

The meeting on Sunday went well.  Five of us managed to put together a complete idea.  We need one large cardboard box, so if anyone could get that...we would be set.

We used Erik's idea with the transformer thing, and lets talk after class tomorrow so we can all understand what we have because its going to be way too hard to type up.  We have a sketch of it that I will explain tomorrow.  

See you guys tomorrow.  

we just need one laargeee cardboard box that Erik would fit in! 

-Vanessa