The film Zombie Land’s title sequence features an interesting font. The font throughout ZombieLand helps establish what the film is about. For example, the font is red with a tint of orange. The colour of the font connotes fire and danger as we as the audience associate the colour red with blood and violence. This therefore links in with the genre of the film. The genre being horror. The font is also very bold and powerful; this therefore suggests the film is also bold, strong and one in which contains a powerful meaning.
The lighting within the film is generally quite bright and eccentric throughout. This is rather unusual as we don’t normally expect a film from the horror genre to be bright. I would describe the lighting as ironic as it doesn’t really give a good understanding of what we expect to be later on in the film, based on what we’ve seen during the title sequence. The lighting however is symbolic towards the Zombies, as the lighting is High Key. This suggests to us as the audience that the Zombies are powerful, therefore they are able to come out during the day as well as during the night.
The opening title sequence is full of different camera shots. Some of these shots being for instance, close-ups, mid shots & medium long shots. During the title sequence there are several close-up shots of blood and people being tortured. This gives the impression that the film involves a lot of iconography of the codes and conventions of a horror film. For instance, especially with the inclusion of blood.
The music in the sequence is from the musical genre of rock. The band being played is Metallica. This denotes to the audience that the film is an ‘on edge’ film which features a lot of suffering and torture. On a final point, the band being played Metallica feature the term 'metal within their name. This denotes to us that the term 'metal is associated with death, as metal is a strong and deadly weapon.
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