Analysing the opening credits of ‘Dawn of the Dead’

 Analysing the opening credits of ‘Dawn of the Dead’:

The ‘Dawn of the Dead’, credits open with the production company’s name, this then is taken of the screen which what looks like blood as the font is bold and red. It then swaps to a large group of people bowing, the credits are very fast paced.

Gruesome images flash up on the screen throughout the opening, the credits are always in red, this symbolises blood. Over the top of the images, video clips and the credits, there is a voice, non – diegetic, which is like an interview, however the interviewee doesn’t know what is happening to everyone around them.

The credits on the first 2 seconds is on a black screen, and the text is in the lower right hand corner, from this a viewer can tell the genre of the film which is then followed up by the transition.

Later on there is upbeat music over lots of fast video clips, which look old however there is no text. After a few clips the text returns again at the bottom of the screen in bold red writing, the text alone seems quite sinister.