Deconstruction of Zombieland
The first scene is of a man falling off of a building trying to get away from the zombie which is trying to eat him. The animated credits say 'Columbia Pictures Presents' In blood red writing. We see the man falling through the words as if he hit them and they fell out of the way. It is a light scene which creates a normal atmosphere but when you notice the zombie you understand why he is running away and falling over the barrier.
The second scene is were you see a woman with a strawberry milkshake running trying to get away from a zombie that is chasing her. The writing that says 'A Pariah Production' is placed on the wall behind the woman that is running. You see the milkshake flying everywhere which hits into the writing. Her facial expression shows that she is in terror, she is scared and running for her life.
In the third screen shot you see a man who has chucked his briefcase full of money in shock, up into the air so he can run faster. There are two zombies chasing him while his car is on fire. You see 'Jesse Eisenberg' in the same red writing and like the first shot it gets hit out of the way and falls out of the way but in this scene the zombie hits them to the side and they fall over like dominoes. As the words fall over another name appears 'Emma Stone' on the opposite side so the man running away from the zombies hits into the words and they fly upwards.
The next scene you see police men trying to hold back the zombies with riot shields. You can see one of the police mans faces; he looks scared and like he is straining to hold back the zombie. The zombie pushes through the two riot shields this is when you see the animated words 'And Abigail Dreslin'. These words get squashed and pushed down from the riot shields as the zombies are pushing them forwards trying to get to the police men.
The fifth screen shot shows a man holding a crowbar, being chased by two zombies with the title of the film 'ZOMBIELAND' written across the mans arms. He then smashes into glass and drives the crowbar through the glass which breaks the title in half then the scene fades. The mans expression looks like he is scared.
The next screen shot shows a group of men with 5 of them zombies and 2 of them trying to run away. You see the father holding the boy dragging him to safety. They are set in a park which you would normally link a park with happy memories and children playing but in this scene you see terror and madness. You see the words 'Production Design Maher Ahmad' where two of the zombies run into the words like the other scenes they fly out but the scene changes onto the next scene while the words are about to move.
In the next scene you see men running from a stripper who has turned into a zombie and is chasing after the men. You see a fat man running in the middle of the camera shot; his facial expression looks scared and terrified but he also looks like he is struggling to run away from the zombie stripper. Like the other scenes the fat man runs into the words saying 'Casting by John Papsidera' 'Costume designer Magaliguidasci' and 'Music by David Sardy' He runs into all 3 sets of words one after the other. After the last set of words the scene fades into the next one.
The eighth screen shot shows a zombie on fire chasing a firefighter with another firefighter with a hose trying to put a fire out. The zombie on fire runs straight at the firefighter who has the hose; he dosent notice that the zombie is running at him because he is standing with his face away from him. When he moves the pipe the water flys out and hits the writing making it fall upwards like dominoes. Also the firefighter that was running away from the zombie runs into the paragraph of writing which then crumbles up. The scene then merges into the next one.
In the final scene you see a man that has been turned into a zombie being thrown at the window of a car. The camera is based in the passenger side of the car looking out at the man flying towards us. When the zombie man is flying towards the car window he spits out a lot of 'blood' onto the window were the camera is looking out of. His elbow hits into the end letter of 'Directed By Ruben Fleischer' The 'r' goes flying towards the camera and the other letters follow. When the man hits the glass the music is ending with a bell sound.
Throughout the opening the soundtrack 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' by Metallica is playing, this song makes the opening sound like its in slow motion but also if you listen to the lyrics of the song they relate to killing and terror 'For a hill men would kill, why? they do not know' This shows that men would kill anyone and they wont know what they are doing or why. This is like what zombies act like their only function is to feed on flesh; this is killing people, zombies don't think about it so they dont know why they do it or what they are doing, this is like the lyrics form the song.
This film deconstruction will help us decide what type of effects and type of shots that we will be using in our film opening, this depends on what our audience would want us to do as our film opening. If we were going to do a zombie film opening then we will be using some of these effects like having music that ties in with the action that is happening like 'zombieland' has done and having different scenes at different times to show that the zombies are everywhere and not just in one place. We will also try to make our film opening have a clear story line with an introduction like 'Zombieland' has done.
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