At first we see a black screen with non- diegetic music in the background, the music is quite spooky and mysterious something that would be used in old horror film but also the tempo slowly rises creating tension keeping the audience on their seats until we are finally introduced to our first character. We have a close up shot of man in a pub the use of these levels out the tension that was built and the start and shows the normality of the situation as the man is having a cigarette and drinking beer. This gives the impression to the audience that this is pre-apocalypse. We then progress on being introduced to more characters but also being introduced to comedy side of the film as we hear the character Ed cursing in the background in what appears to be a serious conversation between shaun and liz. Towards the end of the scene after multiple shot/ reverse shots we see and hear the conversation between shaun and liz with shaun stating 'things will change' the sentence foreshadows later events of the film. Not only that but we see the scene end with slowing music with police sirens in the background creating a mysterious feel as to what will happen next, we then see the camera zoom in onto shaun's face creating more tension which is emphasized by liz saying 'shaun?' in a worry matter. As the seen ends the audience is left in darkness which makes them think and question whats going to happen next whilst non-diegetic sounds plays in the background.
The next scene is one of my favourites as the way its said out gives the impression that the people are zombies already through the use of everyone doing the same thing and doing it in a quite montone way. The way in which its done i find quite humourous and interesting as no other zombie films have used this technique of fooling the audience into believing the people are zombies already. The humour is further emphaisized by the upbeat music with the later scene of a group of people dancing to it down a street in sync but also looking like they are zombies. Straight after this we have a medium shot of the house and a close up of a mans feet, from the way he's staggering it suggests to the audience that he is a zombie which is emphaisized by an typical zombie groan. Its only after a full tilt upwards that the audience realise that the character is in fact still human. Right at the end of the scene we see Ed playing on a game console and Shaun going to join this once again breaks down and balances the tension that was created before by showing normality, we once again see humour as we hear 'player 2 has entered the game' followed by Ed stating 'dont you have work?' and finishing with the sound of 'player 2 has left the game'.Applying to filming
The photo to your right is a scene that i find quite funny as this is after the dead have come to life and everyone has been killed, yet shaun manages to ignore everything around him and still be able to buy coke and a cornetto even though there is obvious clues of death and gore all around. This is the type of idea i would like to apply to our film to help aid the comedy. Film introduction underneath:
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