Zombie Rising: A social media film project - Anyone want to help?
Posted on October 6, 2008
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Here’s the pitch:
There’s a quiet plague breaking out. One by one the number of infected rises around the world. Dismissed as only the stuff of monster movies, real zombies go unnoticed and unreported. Until now!
The site invites and collects witnesses from around the world to submit photos and videos of zombies in their communities. The media is linked to a global map depicting the level of infection in areas around the world. As the contributions grow, the level of infection rises.
With enough user-submitted content, the clips will be combined into a mockumentary following the plague and the conspiracy to hide it.
Like the idea? Think it sounds like fun? Drop me a line! I’m looking for help building the site, promoting it, and encouraging contributions.
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Should all content be video?
Bryan: I don’t think so. Audio could be really fun and photos would certainly work too. Anything else you think would work?
ha ha, great idea - I think that there might be a few zombies here in Lithgow already (country NSW, Australia), but they’re damned hard to pick from the average shambling local
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I am SO in!
hi again intellagirl - I’ve been thinking a bit about this project. I recon a blog would cover it pretty well. For a back story, how about this scenario to kick it off: after WWII the Lithgow small arms factory is left with an embarrassing amount of illegal chemical weapons which they hide away in a disused coal mine (this actually happened, mustard gas was recently discovered in a mine shaft here, see: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24380097-5001021,00.html) - years later some of the tanks rupture, leaking toxic neurological compounds into the water supply.
And the rest, as they say, is history. Take for example this fellow (obviously visiting nearby Sydney from Lithgow) http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/zombie-beat-pepper-spray-and-officers/2008/10/08/1223145421609.html
I’m not sure if a blog would quite do it. We’d need a pretty robust plug in that would pull and display media tagged in other places, plus something to display the map. Hmmm….