Sunday, November 16, 2008

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies." - Colton

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Zomb-out 2008
15th November 2008

Total turnout: 3 zombies, 1 necromancer, a horde of supporters (I was going to take part until my tragedy scuppered my plans. Oh well).

Well, it's a start!



The 'early' crowd


Before we got chased out of Raffles City


Making up and waiting for latecomers (no late zombies, boo!)


2 zombies in inanimate mode


Scaring Raffles City shoppers

Before reanimation:


One


Two


Three




Getting to their feet




Shambling


Zombie on phone




Pawing at passers-by


Zombie after banging into MRT sign


Moving out


The horde makes its way down the escalator into Citylink


Down the escalator






Moving up the stairs




Dragging a fallen comrade


Rictus

After this point blip.tv suddenly refused to accept new videos, so I was forced to go back to YouTube. Ugh.




Enming - the only victim




Terrorising book-lovers












Even railings are no match for the Horde


Terrorising schoolgirls




Scaring a kid, and Enming does a weird dance


Moving out of Citylink


At the head of an escalator






Tackling the escalator




3/4 group shot at Suntec City


Impromptu souvenir shot with lady




Terrorising diners in some place


Resting from the exertions upon their reknitted sinews


But always ready to leap for manflesh




Bemused security




Terrorising counter staff




The Nooseman


Terrorising the security


Amused security


PRC girl




KO at the end


KO with Necromancer


Getting up


Group shot with supporters


Pile


Zombie eating Carl's Jr


AAR (After Action Review):

Generally the event was successful, though I heard one passer-by remarking that Halloween was over, and another that "我要打他们" ("I want to hit them"); next year should see a better turnout since it's already been done once (unlikely to be Toronto's 3,000 though!)

Holding it indoors was a good idea due to the weather.

The fake blood was good, if a bit watery.

Although we were chased out by Raffles City security, we didn't have any other issues with the management of the places.

Suggestions for next year:

Date
- Do it around Halloween

Pre-event
- Publicise it with SMS forwards
- Don't change the date
- Don't have Facebook discussions alone: a pre-event meetup is good to know other participants
- Have a pre-event for publicity
- Provide makeup guide as well as a making fake blood guide

Preparation and forming up
- Organiser should not be late waiting for participants at rendezvous point
- Organiser should give everyone his contact number
- Organiser could provide free $5 shirts (maybe from the Salvation Army) for zombie costumes (you see one zombie wearing such a shirt)
- More props: sausages as intestines?
- The route was just right, but the route needs to be very clear beforehand

Execution
- Have more victims to increase the atmosphere. This year we had essentially only one real victim, but as I pointed out victims have to be willing to get dirty (fake blood etc) and if they are, they'll be zombies
- In a larger group, have minders to keep track of where the zombies are, keep stragglers enroute etc
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