Dawn Of The Dead

Dawn of the dead tile sequence analysis.

You can see that the type of genre for this film is going to be horror/thriller just by the begging as you are able to see that the typography is red this could then be foreshadowing death as blood is red it could then give the audience the idea that there is going to be a lot of blood being featured in this film. The first shot is of a lot of nude bodies all close together bowing down together, this could give the audience the feeling that there is a lot of people with the same condition and that they are all come together as one to take over the world and kill people? The next shot that we are shown is of what seems to be someone that looks as if they have just been hung or something as all you can see is a nude body that looks like it is in the air, it is the carried on with a close up shot of a man with blood in and around his mouth, it looks as if he has killed someone and then sucked all the blood out of them, although ‘normal’ human beings wouldn’t look like that , this is the showing us that the film could be to do with zombies of some sort.  We already know that there is going to be people dying in this film as the title itself gives it away ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ this could also foreshadow death within this film. At about 20 seconds into the title sequence there is then a man voice over asking what might be a doctor, police man or a local man. Asking ‘is it a virus’ they then reply with ‘I don’t know’ it is clear to us that what has gone on hasn’t effected everyone in that neighbourhood yet. Whilst you hear people asking questions about what is going on you get a fade in of the ‘zombies’ with a creepy sound to go with it.

 The film is associated with the war as we are able to see that there are soldiers throughout the sequence and that it isn’t just happening within that city, that it is worldwide.  We are getting different information from others from different cities from the news reports and information from other people this could then show us that because there isn’t just one person from a city talking about it there is a few, this is then showing us that it is serious. The audience would automatically be drawn to this film as the title sequence is very appealing to whom that like that type of genre so that they would then like to know more about the goings on within the film and how it ends.