This week I’m talking to Klaus about an idea for my final project. The theme I was thinking about for my personal project was about urban zombies. I wanted to make some videos about cities and then create a scene of an abandoned city and put zombie models in it. But after talking with Klaus I thought that my story could have many possibilities and his ideas helped me a lot.

In the beginning, I only envisioned the horror side of zombies, but Klaus taught me how to think about things from multiple perspectives, how to tell a funny “joke”, and I had to create an eye-catching video in a short period of time, which was a huge challenge for me.

I needed to do more than just show my zombies and my scenes, I needed to organize my beginning, middle and end. For example, I could design a scene of a gentleman zombie walking in a ruined city with a tie on, he meets the zombie lady who makes him fall in love at first sight, he likes the way the zombie lady has only one eyeball and the other hand is about to drop, and the way he shows his love is by parting a little bit of his own brain to the zombie lady.

Another story is that a zombie was walking down the road while he saw a dog and he was happy to see the dog sitting nicely on the side of the road. He walks up to the dog, pets it, and gives the dog a bone of his own. However after the dog eats it, he excitedly chases the zombie and proceeds to rip off his other arm, scaring the zombie into running away.

Next I want to create a story about “Zombies at Work”, which is many years from now, when zombies and humans live together in this world. One day, a zombie goes to help a grandmother crossing the street and delays the interview and stumbles over the questions, but in the end he wins the interview. The answer given by the interviewer is: “Because zombies don’t need to sleep.”