World War Z: Opening scene analysis

      This film is about a new virus that turning people into zombies and it is Brad Pits jobs to find a cure and stop the virus from spreading and wiping out man kind.

      The first shot as the film starts is a short clip of cars stuck in traffic, the diagetic sounds of the cars horns but then it goes in to a sound bridge of the mother playing a game with her kids in her car. We get to meet the  family in what seems to be an ordinary drive to work and school. We get so see typical family two young girls a mother and a father. The audience can tell that the family are going to be main characters in this film as they get a lot of screen time. The family is playing a game looking happy which is a big contrast to what is about to happen. The bad weather and the gloominess of the day suggests to the audience that something bad may happen.
     
       Suddenly things start to pick up. People are running and a police officer on his motorbike hits the wind mirror of the main characters car giving a hint to the audience that more danger is to come. This creates some enigmas, why are people running away? where was the officer rushing to? The father gets out of his car to see whats going on this shows the audience that this film is going to  have the typical male dominance and have him protecting the women. As he gets out there is a large explosion down the road, the shot cuts start to speed up and the camera is shaken giving a sense of chaos and shows grips the audience as they want to find out whats going on. The non-diagetic sound starts picking up getting faster as do the clips, trying to show how the characters may feel, the urgency of them getting and the despair of them wanting to get out of there. When they get hit by the car  the music stops and a loud buzzing sound trying to making the audience feel as if they just got hit too, but the antagonists (the father and mother) check if everyone is okay and its straight back into the action.

     The next shot is a birds eye view of the city. In this shot you can see the mass of people running so the audience get a feel for the scale in which this is happening. It cuts back to the family and the father protecting them, the mother points out one of the zoombies and the audiance get to see one for the first time. poo. The fast cuts, fast car rides and big explosions indicate to the audience this may be a action thriller but when the zombies are introduced this makes the audience feel as if they're in the action.


   I really like this opening as it gets the audiance hooked straight away it also creats a lot of enigmas for the audiance.