I was hit with a huge realization that brought a tear to my eye and made me get goosebumps a few days ago. You may not have the same appreciation for the idea that I do, but I still want to post it.


I realized that A Perfect Circle and some TOOL songs have the perfect tone, pace, and atmosphere for a zombie movie.


This is the song that really hit it home for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noppzEtbDwM

The song is "Passive", and it's the song that first introduced me to A Perfect Circle and TOOL, so I certainly have some bias towards it, but I think that the song, with it's lyrics and imagery, would be perfect for an openening credit sequence.

The sequence could show people going about their everyday lives from, and show more shots of one person in particular, but this person would never be shown in full frame, just bits and pieces. Then, this person attacks someone, and we get an idea that their throat was ripped out, but never actually see it directly, and we get a shot of the attacker shambling off.

The victim lies unconsious, possibly dead, and at 2:30 we get an overhead timelapse of them lying for about a day, from night to day and then ending at evening. Around evening, people start walking by, and some stop to look, others bend down and check the victim's pulse.

The image in my head that gives me goosebumps is a close-up of the victim's eye at 2:39 and at the line "wake up" at 2:47, when the song picks up pace and intensity, having the eye open, the person raise from the ground and grabbing someone nearby, then biting their arm. Then, as the song goes silent, the first reanimated victim leaves the frame (We are in overhead at all times, except when people are attacked, and are now in timelapse again) and the others run away, then an ambulance comes and the camera zooms toward the bodybag they put the new victim in, and tilts down as they lift him into the ambulance and the timelapse slows, so that when the bodybag comes to a rest, we are seeing it from about a meter past it's feet and the timelapse has slowed to normal speed. The last piano note plays, and the song goes silent, then we see the bodybag's surface twitch and the screen goes black.



I have other ideas for opening credit sequences, each with different songs in mind, like one for TOOL's "10,000 Days (Wings pt. 2)." I may post them in due time.