Wednesday, 12 November 2014

World War Z opening sequence analysis

World War Z is an action, adventure, horror movie. It was directed by Marc Foster and starred Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos and Danielle Kertesz. The story is about Gerry Lane; a United Nations employee who is in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic before it destroys everything.

The title sequence music starts off with tubular bells and a piano, as the sequence nears its end a kick drum beat is introduce, which creates a pulsating feel of a heart beat. There also seems to be the underlying sound of a heart beat through out the piece, which suggests to the audience that the movie is going to have something to do with life and death, as well as sickness. There is some diegetic sound, but normally of everyday life such as traffic or people walking. Over the top of everything clips of news and show broadcasts are heard, in some of them it mentions people being sick and other such things, but the majority is normal everyday things, this tells the audience that people don't realise some things are happening until it is too late as well as that life still goes on. 

All the shots are different as they are different clips cut together. The majority of the shots are at an equal angle, and long distance, however there are some that are low and high angle as well as establishing and close ups. It has been edited so that there are diagonal cuts and stripes which split the pictures in half or make certain parts unfocused, these shapes our made up of the letters from the title. The sequence cuts start off slow but get faster, telling the audience the movie is going to be fast paced as well as the the sequence is coming to an end.

The sequence starts off with the image of a beach which is uninterrupted, before cutting to an establishing shot of a mountain side with houses on it, from there more and more imagery of human activity is shown, such as cities, roads, transport, etc. As the sequence draws to the end more imagery of the natural world, such as animals hunting, are shown. All this things suggests to the audience that the whole world is going to be affected as well as that, the movie is going to contain violence and that it is about survival. The sequence ends with the title running onto the screen with the firmer imagery still occurring inside the letters.

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