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.