Tuesday, 25 June 2013

If only things were different.

In unit 72 what I have to do is create a back story with Salts Mill, and decide if there are any changes I would make to the model such as the exterior will be a lot more wore away and bits of rubble around with boarded up windows and doors. The reason I want the place in such a mess is because in my story Salts Mill is used as a fortress to protect an amount of people from a zombie apocalypse, It feature 10 characters who survive the first 6 months of a zombie apocalypse but there are millions of zombies still wandering the empty streets so they decide to go out and hunt all of them, using Salts mill as a refuge camp plus base, the story itself is not about trying to find civilization but to destroy all the Zombies to get life to be better than what it was.
I like the choice of characters because it ranges from a little girl to a Explosive mad midget that gets found in a well, and each of them are different in many ways but all have one thing in common and that is they all hate zombies.
The story starts off with six of them found Salts Mill as an ex refugee camp with only four survivors in with hordes of zombies surrounding the building and loads of corpses around, they decide to go in and help the survivors and get everything back on track.
This is what I did on story and data for everything.
One million = Pest control
It’s the year 2024 and a zombie apocalypse has swept the entire world making the human population less than one million, with billions of the walking dead strolling down the streets no one is safe, now the clock is ticking and only one race will survive the longest, the living or the dead.
The date is the 17th of June 2024, six months after the first Zombie was sighted and a team of survivors has made it to Salts mill where they set up camp inside preparing for the biggest, goriest, most brutal killing rampage anyone has ever done.



Zak Burnley aka Death Dodger.
Gender: Male.
Age: 29.
Favourite food: Bacon.
Favourite Weapon: Bow and Arrow.
Bio: Peaceful most of the time, but the one thing he hates the most is Zombies after they brutally mauled his family and he was left alone for three month to fight off the living dead, the only thing that kept him sane was pictures of life before the apocalypse and swears to himself that life will be better than it has ever been once it is all over and he will find bacon, he prefers to call the shots as he’s the longest survivor and has killed more than 3000 Zombies and lost count four months into the invasion. He’s not scared of zombies anymore; the zombies are scared of him.


The false hero
John Smith, AKA Vicar
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Favourite food: Unknown
Favourite Weapon:  Crossbow
Bio: No one knows the story behind his nick name, only because he says it’s the longest story ever with no complaints about a boring story everyone is satisfied that his names Vicar, but unlike Zak, John has a hidden fear of Zombies. John doesn't like to show he’s scared only because he’s jealous of Zak’s role in the squad, and is interested in the steam punk style. He met Zak after those two were pushed into a shop and had nowhere to go, he hopes to find his family and get an island of his own.




Dwaine Johnson
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Favourite food: Chicken
Favourite Weapon: Chainsaw

Bio: worked at a Mechanic in Birmingham living with his daughter Alisha, where he swears to protect her no matter what happens. At the start of the invasion he was in prison but broke out to find his daughter who was in a foster home and set camp in his old garage. He met Zak, John and Debra after their car broke down in a dark street with hordes of zombies nearby, as he was a fully trained mechanic and out of food he offered to join only for his daughters’ safety.





Alisha Johnson
Gender: female
Age: 12
Favourite food: Chicken
Favourite weapon: Throwing Knifes
Bio: Was put into a foster home at the age of 8 after her mother was killed in a car crash and her dad was sent to prison for dodging tax and selling class B drugs, she’s a lovable character, with most people at first thinking that she’s a scarred child that can’t handle herself, she surprises them by showing that she can handle herself better than her own dad. When the breakout occurred she hid in the attic of her foster home with an air rifle, inventing genius ways to access the top floor with was Zombie proof.





Mike Oxlong
Gender: Male
Age:55
Favourite food: Spam and lettuce
Favourite weapon: Explosives
Bio: The most deadliest midget to ever walk the United Kingdom, everyone make fun of him the first few seconds of meeting him but he is a serious guy as he’s Irish everyone seems to think of his as a lost crazy pyromaniac leprechaun that looks like a shrunken Gandalf, he is the most deadly and dangerous person in the group. He’s a strong ally to have in this scenario but be always on the move, as he can’t help himself to blow something up. His granddad was in the IRA and taught him everything he needed to know about making and using explosives at a very young age. He met the team after he blew up after they found him trapped down a well.








Debra Monclaire
Gender: female
Age:22
Favourite food: Pizza
Favourite weapon: Samurai Sword
Bio: The babe of the group who was staying over at her friends on the night of the invasion, and woke up to the sound of her friend trying to eat her. After successfully beating her best friend to death she hid in an empty house and waited for everything to quieten down and was the third person to join the team after she was saved by Zak and John. Her career before the apocalypse was working in a hospital as a trainee nurse she makes a great addition to the group as she is trained in first aid and many other things.
After all the above grouped they heard that there was an armoured camp at Salts mill so they set out to find it, but found out that there was only four survivors left after three hundred of the survivors were infected and scattered in the building, the team decided the safest option was to set a explosion at the top of the street and wait for them to leave. Inside the building they found...





James Morris
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Favourite food: Sunday dinner
Favourite weapon: An electrified sword he made and guns.
Is a builder from around the area that was working on the Salts mill interior before the outbreak and thought of barricading and fencing the outside off so that no zombies could get in, they was also a troop of soldiers that came to protect but cowardly ran away after they broke in and with most of them dead, he used the guns and ammo which killed many, but attracted more.










Mad Mike
Gender: Male
Age: ????
Favourite food: Spam
Favourite Weapon: Any
Bio: The most badass soldier that’s alive, the scary bit is his past, brought up in the London ghetto at a young age and was a very aggressive person who was part of the A-team who brought down the Korean terrorist viy- gong- mab. Most people thought he was too mad to be kept in the army, yet too dangerous to release into the public, he kept everyone sane by going insane.
 



Tim Brooke
Age: ????
Favourite food: Full English
Favourite weapon: Machete
One of James Morris’s college who was helping on the interior of the building, Tim and James are like brothers the way they act together and watch each other’s back all the time.
 


Mohamed Husain 
Age: 17
Favourite food: Curry
Favourite weapon: Axe
Bio: Not really known by anyone as he’s the last of the civilians that took refuge in Salts Mill, no one really knows him but everyone had enough time to get acquainted. Used to run a Indian restaurant downtown before the apocalypse began.

Everyone decides the best place for base is Salts mill as it has many escape routes, few entrances and a surrounding fence which cannot be breached by any zombies. The world has changed from what it once was to a gory everyman for himself except this team of ten survivors all capable of surviving.


Narrative structure

The narrative structure of it is linear as it’s just a straight forward with a beginning, middle and an end, as a simple story layout it’s not complicating and I could of gone for a story with multiple plots but there was no need for it as I’m keeping it a simple story. If I was doing a Multi plot the way I would set it out would be that Salts mill was brought through time and there are monsters surrounding it with only one way out. 

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