Due to Jasmine and I creating a teaser trailer, we want questions to be asked about what the spectator is being presented with. Therefore, information that supports what the narrative is about, will be present within the first scene (Dean in the gym). I suggested that similarly to Edgar Wright's zombie comedy 'Shaun of the Dead', a news report could play at a minimal sound level in the background of the scene.
This is a reference to when Shaun is seen exiting the Indian-run deli, which is tuned to a radio station playing songs from Indian movies, the song stops and a newscaster begins speaking in Hindi. The content of the news, when translated in English, is, "People are waking up from their graves.". Unlike 'Shaun of the Dead', the language would be English and the news report would be playing throughout whilst Dean is seen lifting weights. This way, the spectator would have to fully concentrate and possibly re-watch the clip to understand that a epidemic has begun, what the symptoms are to look out for and what to do in the event of becoming infected. Moreover, the audio used would foreshadow what later happens within the trailer and ultimately, allow the audience to understand that the normality and equilibrium of the protagonist lifting weights is broken when we later find out, he has begun to suffer from channel virus symptoms.
