Movie Help?!

Movie Help?

I am making a zombie movie, and in the opening scene, a 5 man team of Special Ops soldiers are dispatched to a remote area where their Alpha Team went missing (sound familiar?) so they search the nearby woods for they MIA comrades. With no luck, they return to the extraction point, but learn that their EVAC won't return for a few hours, due to a "riot" in a nearby city. So the soldiers make camp in an open field with a platform in the middle, due to it's "stragetic advantage" as one of the soldiers puts it. So they secure the area, and one of them finds a utility shed, with a generator and flood lights. Ok here is my question. What would you find better? Version one or version two?

2 days ago
Version 1:

The soldier only finds 1 flood light and then sets it up to illuminate the camp. When darkness falls the soldiers hear moaning coming from the woods. They then realize what is happening after seeing Alpha Teams Captian infected. Ok so I was thinking that one of the soldiers would have to direct the beam of light coming from the flood light, because there is not enough to illumnate the whole field. So then they would be yelling " Point it over here! " and stuff like that. Then at the end, the flood light soldier would say " Are they dead? " turns the light, then the Alpha Team Captian attacks him, and in the process the light gets broken, and then everything goes black.

2 days ago
Version 1:

The soldier only finds 1 flood light and then sets it up to illuminate the camp. When darkness falls the soldiers hear moaning coming from the woods. They then realize what is happening after seeing Alpha Teams Captian infected. Ok so I was thinking that one of the soldiers would have to direct the beam of light coming from the flood light, because there is not enough to illumnate the whole field. So then they would be yelling " Point it over here! " and stuff like that. Then at the end, the flood light soldier would say " Are they dead? " turns the light, then the Alpha Team Captian attacks him, and in the process the light gets broken, and then everything goes black.

2 days ago
Version 2:

Pretty much the samething, except the soldiers find like 4 flood lights.

OK, here goes nothing.........

With one flood light, the action would be seen but because of the movement (and limitations) of the solitary light, the audience would only see glimpses, the tension and horror would be gotten from the screams and 'zombie sounds' and the split-second flash from the muzzles of the assault rifles. The camera would have to be completely mobile and not one of those steady-cam things either, the camera would be used to put the audience in the frame, as it moved violently around.

So far as the Ops are concerned, you'd have to have maybe 8, so that you could kill 2 (violently - but having no real trace of the bodies left, blood spatter everywhere, an entrail piece or two, a foot still inside it's boot, etc), and severely wound another 1, leaving 5 intact.
Mr. Knowitall does have a point however, that the Ops Team wouldn't make camp in the middle of a field - that would never happen. You could have a jungle in Columbia or some such place, hundreds of miles from anywhere, and the zombies are made up of either a huge drug cartel thingy, or some ancient tribe cut off from the outside World. Remember the original Predator movie? There were enough people in that camp that Dutch and his team attacked to make a decent sized zombie army.
His idea of illuminating the field (or wherever the hell you decide to place this), seems like a good idea, but if you followed what I said about the camera movement, and the light-flash from muzzles, then the audience would not be able to tell what attacked them, and neither would your characters - even if a couple of zombies were shot, you could have them shot in the face, and therefore the Ops may believe that they were attacked by a mob, but cannot understand the horrific slaughter of 2 of their team and the near-fatal attack of the other 1.
Then, the survivor turns (obviously - it's zombie law), and the cat is let out of the bag.

Just don't make these zombies slow and dumb, make 'em real predators so we can have a real good fight between the Ops and the zombies (too one sided otherwise, they are after all Ops), and how about zombie animals? Undead 30' zombie python anyone? Then you can throw in some animals into the confusion, when the original attack stops - 'people' found on the ground shot in the face and 2 monkeys and a puma as well. That should confuse everybody.

Whether or not you pick any or all of this answer, email me and let me know what you choose and how you are doing on this venture.

Additional - I've just been to your profile and I notice that you are 13, so I guess zombie snakes and jungles are kinda out the question. But hey! give it a go, and see what happens, all these big-time movie directors had to start somewhere.