Unit IV Research Proposal

I will be working on this final assignment with Shoshana Bellman. We plan on chronicling the experiences of a person living in the zombie apocalypse. We will do this by having our character relate their encounters on a blog. Through the character's eyes, our college aged audience will learn about the scientific parts of the zombie and the psychological effects that happen to people in the zombie apocalypse. I was interested in doing this project because I felt that in our modern day world, many events have been documented on social media. I was particularly inspired by the story of a Palestinian teenager who records the Gaza War by tweeting live airstrikes and shelling attacks from the Israelis; I thought, why not do the same for a fictional zombie apocalypse? I felt that it would be more "real" if it was just a regular person reporting what they experienced rather than a professional journalist. Originally, we were going to use twitter but realized that the limit of 140 characters per tweet would not be enough to express the events that our character would encounter. Ultimately we settled on using a wordpress blog turning our project into something like an online diary. Our goal is to combine both of our topics, mine being the psychological aspect of the zombie apocalypse and Shoshana's being the more scientific aspect for this final project. I hope this project will provide more insight to our topics for our classmates and that they may learn something.