28 days later opening code and conventions
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28 Days Later Code and Conventions Findings Textual Evidence Creation of enigma. Enigma is created in trailers of action horror films by having a scary cliff hanger so that the audience will want to watch the film as they want specific questions to be answered. The opening is very abnormal as your see monkeys in cages in an abandoned lab which creates an enigma to how they got there and why they are there. This confuses the audience and makes them want to watch the rest of the film to find out what is going on. The opening of 28 Days Later there are monkeys in cages and men covered up in balaclavas clearly hiding their identity. This creates an enigma. A puzzle to who they are and what they are doing in a lab with monkeys who are in cages. Introduction to characters In this opening we aren’t introduced to any particular character, only groups of characters but not in detail. The opening of an action horror usually shows the evil scary character so the audience are aware of what is to be seen in the film and that there is a scary character disturbing either a single person or family or group of people. This creates a cliff hanger and the audience want to know who this evil character is and what do they want or what are they going to do in the film. The opening begins with videoed footage of zombie characters who are destorying everything around them. And then it shows that these videos are replaying in a room which looks like some sort of lab. The characters are covered wearing balaclavas so we cannot idenitfy who they are. Setting up Plot The setting up plot starts with a disruption which is the breaking in of the lab because something wrong is going on in there. The setting up of the plot in 28 days later begins with animal activists breaking into a lad to try and release the chimpanzees that are being tested on. Pace and rhythm Editing/mise en At the beginning of the opening a montage edit is used to show the audience what is been happening or what is to come up in this film. It makes it clear that there has been some sort of disruption. The editing in this opening tend to Handheld camera movement is used at the opening of the film through the montage edit. Then a pan is used when scenes change from the loud chaotic scene to a quite scene where there is a chimpanzee tied down in a lab.
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Transcript of 28 days later opening code and conventions
28 Days Later
Code and Conventions
Findings Textual Evidence
Creation of enigma.
Enigma is created in trailers of action horror films by having a scary cliff hanger so that the audience will want to watch the film as they want specific questions to be answered. The opening is very abnormal as your see monkeys in cages in an abandoned lab which creates an enigma to how they got there and why they are there. This confuses the audience and makes them want to watch the rest of the film to find out what is going on.
The opening of 28 Days Later there are monkeys in cages and men covered up in balaclavas clearly hiding their identity. This creates an enigma. A puzzle to who they are and what they are doing in a lab with monkeys who are in cages.
Introduction to characters
In this opening we aren’t introduced to any particular character, only groups of characters but not in detail. The opening of an action horror usually shows the evil scary character so the audience are aware of what is to be seen in the film and that there is a scary character disturbing either a single person or family or group of people. This creates a cliff hanger and the audience want to know who this evil character is and what do they want or what are they going to do in the film.
The opening begins with videoed footage of zombie characters who are destorying everything around them.And then it shows that these videos are replaying in a room which looks like some sort of lab. The characters are covered wearing balaclavas so we cannot idenitfy who they are.
Setting up Plot
The setting up plot starts with a disruption which is the breaking in of the lab because something wrong is going on in there.
The setting up of the plot in 28 days later begins with animal activists breaking into a lad to try and release the chimpanzees that are being tested on.
Pace and rhythm
Editing/mise en
At the beginning of the opening a montage edit is used to show the audience what is been happening or what is to come up in this film. It makes it clear that there has been some sort of disruption. The editing in this opening tend to
Handheld camera movement is used at the opening of the film through the montage edit.Then a pan is used when scenes change from the loud chaotic scene to a quite scene where there is a chimpanzee tied down in a lab.
28 Days Later
scene/camera shots
be slow dissolves to create suspense and scare the audience and fast straight cuts which are there to make the atmosphere more intense for the audience. The mise en scene consists of dark low key lighting and dark, bland costumes, this creates a scary atmosphere for the audience. In action horror films characters are made to look inhuman and violent. Camera movements such as slow panning are used to convey a sense of discovery in the opening.
Mood and tone (non-diegetic
music)
Loud screaming is used at the beginning of the opening to show some sort of disruption through the montage edit. Then the scene changes to low calm music which sounds like someone is discovering something is used to convey that something has been discovered by one of the characters.
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