Evaluation: Comparison of ‘Dead Lazy’ and ‘The Last Call’

By Joshua James

The first shot in The Last Call is the title text shown on a black background. After this shot, the narrative begins and there is no prologue to the film to give a sort of back-story to help support the narrative. This back-story comes later on in the narrative, about half way through.

In Dead Lazy, there is a short and mysterious scene before the main narrative begins. This gives a back-story to the film and also intrigues the audience to watch more to understand what’s going on. This is different to the Last Call because the Last Call has no prologue.

This is the title sequence of the Last Call. The text is all white and plain to show the seriousness of the genre. There are no institutions either, this shows that the production is not as good in terms of quality compared to Dead Lazy.

Here is the title sequence of Dead Lazy. The text is much more colorful to show the comical side of the genre. The red text shows the horror side of the genre. There are also institutions before this title comes up, this represents a better production value compared to the Last Call.

This shot in the Last Call focuses on the characters. This scene comes straight after the title sequence. We can clearly see both of the main characters as there is a medium shot of them both and the lighting is good.

This is one of the scenes near the start of Dead Lazy. This is how the audience is introduced to the main character. The shot is a close-up which creates a sense of mystery. This is very different from the character introduction in the Last Call because this scene has a lot more mystery around it, appealing to the horror side of the product

In this shot of dead Lazy there is a close up of the radio. There is diegetic sound of a radio broadcast coming from the radio. This radio broadcast is about the infection outbreak and it also gives more of a back-story to the narrative of the product. This shows intertextuality within Dead Lazy. The Last Call does not have any intertextuality so this is quite a big difference between the products.

Evaluation

Overall, we have learnt how to use many different techniques. These include: prologues, title sequence texts, intertextuality and how to introduce characters. The use of these techniques differs between the two pieces of media because of how we wanted the products to be conveyed.