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Mars Attack Title Sequence Analysis

Mars Attack Title Sequence

The opening title sequence opens with the warner brother’s pitchers logo showing this is a Hollywood film and who the producers of the film are. In addition, they edited the entrance clip of warner brothers by applying a UFO flying round in the sky, showing that UFOs play a aspect in the film.

It then opens with a narrative by showing a clip of man coming out taking his rubbish to the bin, just doing the normal day life. The Asian man then starts talking to his neighbour and they ask ‘what is that noise?’ which indicates something is coming to the audience building up suspense. It shows the road hill top with a  red glow raising up           over the hill ,the glow  is red which can suggest there is a death and blood throughout the film , from the audience and the film being based around ‘Mars’ you think its aliens or UFO coming up the hill. Then the children start running out screaming ‘Daddy what is that!’.  The music is an orchestra  group with violins ect and starts getting more faster and louder building suspense and creating a scared atmosphere as if something terrible about to happen.

As the glow gets closer , its actually cows running down on fire. Then a UFO flies off behind the house , showing to the audience that these aliens are coming in contact with earth and are going to cause chaos to all the Americans.

The next scene follows the UFO out to space as its flying back home to ‘Mars’ the names of the actors starting appearing rotating in a circular loop like UFOs themselves still linking to the SCI-FI alien themes. The planet Mars is still red with the colour suggesting the planet is dangerous , and suggesting they will cause death and blood. In addition the earth is seen behind in the distance of mars which shows the aliens target is to wipe off the planet earth

The music slows down and goes in to a space sounds of UFO’s creating a spooky atmosphere .

Hundreds of UFOS start to rise from planet mars and they are all heading towards earth and the music starts getting faster and louder , hinting to the audience they are going to attack earth and cause chaos like a huge war.

The sequence continues to cut into different angels showing all the thousands of spaceships UFO together like a huge army heading towards earth for a battle with the humans possibly to wipe the human race and cause death and chaos there. However you don’t actually see what’s driving these UFO’s still so it’s a still a mystery what they look like and ect and the music continues  to get louder and quicker to build up tension as they get closer.

A green glow comes out over the scene of the UFOS traveling to earth and it spells ‘Mars Attack’ the colour green still suggest the science sci-fi film it has 

Zombieland Title Sequence

Zombieland’ Title sequence analysis

Daniel Kelly

‘The title sequence opens with a heavy rock music background to create a exciting but dark feeling/atmosphere about the film. The music fits perfectly with the clips as due to it creates a pumped, action atmosphere which links to the clips as the people running/attacking will be feeling the same and the zombies still setting the dark scary tone to the sequence linking with the music. Also , this seems to be a American rock song , which links to the location set about the film.

The opening clip is a low angle shot showing  a man jumping of the prison stairs to save his life from being chased from the zombie behind him. The low angle works in effect as due to the zombie being high up and the man falling back down , this shows about the film that how the zombies are more powerful than humans. In addition , you can tell the scene is set in a prison through the  typical orange prison outfit the zombie is wearing and the man jumping for his life is a police officer. This also can show how the outlaws are stronger and there a anarchy or disrespect for law. Furthermore , in the bottle right corner you can see the barb wire electric fences of a prison camp.

With the text saying ‘ Columbia Pictures’ shows this is a Hollywood film and the colour of the font being a dark red linking to blood suggesting there death in the film and also link to the film genre itself of being a horror .

The next shot establish the gore and blood you will see throughout the whole film. The shot lets the audience know that there obviously going to be a lot of death and disgusting gore scenes.

It then goes into a next show of a zombie chase between them and a women, which shows the dominance of the zombies  and how the are ruining everyday life’s for these Americans civilians.

A wide shot is shown of a man being chased by two zombies and his carelessly throwing money into the air and a burning car behind them .  This shows the chaos the zombie apocalypse is having onto everyone. And possibly showing that money cant save them by the money just scattering everywhere so basically the zombies are just going to dominate the Americans.

  This clip is a juxtaposed image by showing a contrast between marriage which signifies love happiness being ruined by his bride who has blood over here obviously has just turnt into a zombie which signifies death and disasters.

The zombieland title shows the narrative of the film itself by turning America or this town into a ‘zomobieland’ full of zombies. The title sequence shows clip shows the chaos of the zombie ruining the American life style by spreading the disease among everyone. The way the man is smashing the glass window behind the title itself shows the destruction the zombies have had on everyone and they are all causing chaos

The sense after shows a naked women zombie chasing after a small fat man , this indicates that possibly there is some sort of humour towards this film for everyone to enjoy as well as a lot of gore and blood.

Throughout the rest of the clips after they are all clips of zombies chasing and attacking human continuing to show the chaos and violence the zombies are creating. As well , all the clips show how dominance the zombie apocalypse is by showing many different scenes of the similar things , zombies chasing humans. The sequence ends with a bell sound suggesting to humans there time is up and the zombies have won.