Monday 4 January 2010

Opening Sequence Analysis - 'Dawn of the Dead'


'When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.'
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Certificate: 18
Directors: Zack Snyder
Writers: George A. Romero, James Gunn
Cast: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer
Production company: Strike entertainment
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
SOURCE - IMDb

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MY NOTES;
Ana, a young beautiful nurse finishes her day-shift at the hospital to return home to her beloved husband, they make love and sleep together. The next day, after her husband is killed by her neighbor next door, he suddenly comes back to life. She discovers the chaos happening in her neighborhood and escapes from her home. Soon after coming to her senses in the woods, she encounters a cop and other survivors, they decide to find safety in a mall. Soon more survivors come, and they learn that if they want to stay alive, they should stick together as the world is overrun by an army of undead. Can they survive the horror in this horrific global chaos? When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth

again gory, although our opening sequence does not portray any of this as far as the eye can see but if the film was to continue i imagine ther would be

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Opening Conventions
Narrative Function-
Characters/ Stars-

hook audience/enigma/action codes-
Film Lang- MES, Cinematography, ( light and colour)-  
Film Lang- Movement , Framing, Editing and sound-