Zombieland
This is the First Film deconstruction that we "as a group" decided to break down. "Zombieland" is a 2009 American zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer. It was originally written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin who are some of the only human survivors of a Zombie Apocalypse that has covered the planet and they must fight to stay alive.
In the first clip of the opening of this film, there is a man falling from a watch tower, which is situated in a prison. the zombie which is stood above him is a prisoner from the jail, considering the orange jumpsuit he appears to be wearing. the guy who is falling is the police officer who would have been keeping an eye on him. As the police man falls, he falls through orange text reading "Columbia Pictures Presents". this then gives the audience time to view the text, it then blurs and merges into the next scene. the text for this shot in over the top of the footage and is there until someone or something moves or dismantles the text.
In the second screen shot you have pretty mush the same editing as the shot before, except there is different text with a different thing happening to it. Again the text is over the top of the action and is in the same orange colour and same font. this time the text reads "A Pariah Production" and is located on the cinema wall. the text then gets distorted as the women runs past it. In the action segment, you see a young lady at the cinema with her milkshake, running away from a zombie. this shows that the lady was carrying on as normal when the zombie apocalypse occurs.
in the third scene, there is 3 men that are running away from an exploding car, of which two of them are zombies. the orange text on the left hand side of the screen reads "Jesse Eisenber". his name is the knocked over by the zombies arm. the text then disappears and then another piece of text appears on the right hand side of the screen. this orange text reads "Emma Stone". this text is then disjointed by the human in front knocking it with his shoulder. In the background as the explosion goes off, a briefcase of money flies up into the air and money flies out of the case.
In the next scene you have two zombies trying to be to held back by a member of a swat team. there is blood covering one on riot shields. the orange text is still a constant and is shown throughout the opening of the film. i think that the text represents the fire in the film as there is a lot of destruction being done to the planet by the outbreak. the text which appears, reads "And Abigail Breslin". this text is then destroyed by one of the riot shields.
In the next scene you have the main title shot. it is the title shot because the main title appears and no other text is over the action in this clip. you have a guy with a crowbar hitting what looks like the screen. as the impact happens, the glass is shattered and the text, "Zombieland" is also shattered in half. this gives off the impression that the entire film will be very destructive and broken.
In the next scene you have a very disturbing scene of a stripper running out of a strip club chasing out two clients. You see a fat man running in the middle of the camera shot; his facial expression looks scared and terrified but he also looks like he is struggling to run away from the zombie stripper. This maybe due to the weight or maybe another problem which we didnt see on screen. Like the other scenes, the fat man runs into the words saying 'Casting by John Papsidera' 'Costume designer Magaliguidasci' and 'Music by David Sardy' He runs into all 3 sets of words one after the other like in some sort of order. after he destroys the last set of words, the scene fades into the following one.
The next screen shot shows a zombie, which is on fire chasing 2 firefighters and one of them has a hose and is trying to put out the Blaze. The zombie which is still on fire, runs at the firefighter who has the hose; he dosent notice the zombie is running straight at him because he is standing with his back to the creature. When he moves the pipe, the water flys out and hits the writing making it fall upwards like dominoes. Also the firefighter that was running away from the zombie runs into the paragraph of writing which then crumbles up. The scene then merges into the next one.
In the final scene you see a man that has been turned into a zombie being thrown at the window of a car. The camera is based in the passenger side of the car looking out at the man flying towards us. When the zombie man is flying towards the car window he spits out a lot of 'blood' onto the window were the camera is looking out of. His elbow hits into the end letter of 'Directed By Ruben Fleischer' The 'r' goes flying towards the camera and the other letters follow. When the man hits the glass the music is ending with a bell sound.
Throughout the opening the soundtrack 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' by Metallica is playing, this song makes the opening sound like its in slow motion but also if you listen to the lyrics of the song they relate to killing and terror. 'For a hill men would kill, why? they do not know' This shows that men would kill anyone and they would not know what they was doing or why.
This is like what zombies act like their only function is to feed on flesh; this is killing people, zombies don't think about it so they dont know why they do it or what they are doing, this is like the lyrics form the song. This film deconstruction will help us decide what type of effects and type of shots that we will be using in our film opening, this depends on what our audience would want us to do as our film opening. If we were going to do a zombie film opening then we will be using some of these effects like having music that ties in with the action that is happening like 'zombieland' has done and having different scenes at different times to show that the zombies are everywhere and not just in one place.
We will also try to make our film opening have a clear story line with an introduction like 'Zombieland' has done. It needs to reflect this as this is one of the best film deconstructions that we have looked at. We want our story to be gripping like this opening, so that the audience will want to continue to watch the remainder of the film.
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