Thursday 15 January 2015

zombieland title sequence analysis



Setting
From the title sequence the audience can see that the film is set in modern day America during a apocalypse outbreak. The title sequence shows this through mise en scene throughout, the first scene is set at an American style prison which consists of towers and barbed wire fencing stating it's in America. Chaos is shown by a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit throwing a man in uniform off of the tower suggesting that there is a loss of organised society in the film. The zombies in the title sequence tells the audience it is set in a apocalypse, in the scenes there is a consistently higher ratio of zombies to humans showing there is an outbreak.





Theme
The title presents the film as horror , zombie and comedy this is shown as there is a three legged race which zombies are involved in and there is a zombie stripper running which is black comedy because you would not expect to see zombies doing these kind of things.




Iconography
During the title sequence we see key elements that tell us it is a zombie film there are mutilated people  covered in blood chasing normal people this is something you would expect from a film based on a zombie apocalypse.




Narrative
The title sequence has no narrative it only shows what is happening at the time to show us there is a zombie out break.

Characters
The title sequence does not show the audience who the main characters are.

Style

Thursday 8 January 2015

coursework title sequence

Today we began to look at producing a title sequence this included discussing what a title sequence is, why they are important and applying STINCS to a title sequence.

STINCS is an acronym which stands for:

Setting - Time and place
Theme - Genere of the film
Iconography - Things that are relevant to the genre
Narrative - What the story is about
Characters - a person in the story
Style - cinematography, sound, editing and mise en scene