Textual Analysis of Opening Scene - By Member Of Group

Youtube Short Textual Analyses - Zombieland - The opening shot immediately indicates that the film is on a high budget because of the sheer caliber of the stunt which Zombieland used which immediately helped captivate the audience straight away. There's not many film's that manage to pull off an opening shot so high standard of which Zombieland produced and the establishing shot they used  of the women sliding along the road, leaving a trail of bloods help Zombielands cause even more. Another first indication from the opening scenes is that the film is taking the mick because of the slow motion shots they used, where as most zombie film don't use slow motion shots, they tend to film it at a normal pace because it's a horror. Therefore this suggests that Zombieland is under the comedy genre. The opening two minutes also show a sense of being rebellious after the voice over ended which is about 0.15 seconds in, then the music starts to kick in which has an rebellious edge towards it. Although this film indicates that is an comedy it cuts to some gross shots in the opening two minutes for example 0.22 - 0.29 shows an very graphic shot indeed of an zombie spewing up which is being shot in a mid shot, which indicates that Zombieland still wants to keeps it's grossom edge towards the film. Another interesting pointer is that all of the titles are in red which suggest a sense of death and blood. Falling back to the high budget point, it's not just the opening shot that suggests that the film on high budget, it's every single shot, there's a different shot approximately every five to ten seconds and every one proves that this film is on high budget. Scene by scene the characters have different props, costume, make ups, different stunts going on right through the the end of the opening shots and to make this even more captivating it's all shot in slow motion.