Dawn Of the Dead notes

1. How is the genre of the film constructed?
2. What do the openng titles show visually? How is narrative enigma created?
3. Why has Kyle Cooper chosen to use news footage?
4. Where do these shots position the viewer?

1. It is constructed by the use of dark colours and eary noises
2. They show a news bulletin and alot of rioting which creates the enigma as the audience do not know why a news bulletin is being shown in the sequence.
3. To create a sense of reality and mystery for the audience.
4. It puts the audience is a real position as everything on the news is real. it makes the viewer feel vulnerable and makes the audience wonder what has happened. 

The graphical images make the viewer want to look away.
The music is contrapuntal as it is a contrast between the images that are being presented on the screen. Although, the lyrics fit extremly well with the images while the music is very upbeat. The typography is red which indicates that this is a horror film as red represents blood and gore.

Different types of sound

Diagesis
Foley
Contrapuntal

Diagetic Sound: Both audience and characters can hear the sound. The sound is played in scene.

Non-Diagetic Sound: Only audience can hear. Played outside of the scene, sound bridge.

Voiceover: When a voice is heard whilst we see an image.

Parallel Sound: When the sound matches what we see on screen.

Dialogue: A conversation between two characters on screen.

Contrapuntal Sound: What we see on screen and hear don't match.


Diagetic Sound                                             

• Objects being moved around                
• The location
• Guns and knives
• Music
• Footsteps
• Character Dialogue

Non - Diagetic Sound

• Voiceovers
• Sound Effects
• Narrators Commentary

Editing Notes

The general idea behind editing in narrative film is the coordination of one shot with another in order to create a cherant whole. The system employed in narrative film is called continuity editing - its purpose is to create and provide efficient and artful transitions.

Editing film:

Task of selecting and joining camera tasks.
In finished film, techniques that govern relation among the shot

The two types of editing are:

In camera editing
Post Production editing