Analysing opening scene - 28 weeks later.

Analysing shot types in a film opening - 28 weeks later.

The opening scene of 28 weeks later use a range of effective shot types such as long shot, close up shot and high angle shots. These all have a different effect on the film.

The long shot was the most effective when Don was running through the field away from the zombies and the camera angle captured him right in the middle and then all the zombies running behind and coming from all directions although they were out of focus which made it more effective because it clearly shows that they are at a distance and still got far to travel until they catch up with Don. This will make the audience feel very wary for Don and make them feel very tense and worried as they don't know if the zombies are going to catch up with him, or he's going to get away, or what's going to happen atall, however at the same time the audience may not feel sorry for him because they realised that he has betrayed his family. As he is meant to be the stereotypical hero, that if anything happens to his family he will be there to save them, but in this case he wasn't and he just ran away from them, In this shot you can also clearly see his facial expressions of guilt, this suggests that he feels bad for what he has done and that he left his family behind to save himself, he probably feels very selfish as well because of this but he felt like he had no other choice. At this part of the scene as well with the long shot when the camera angle was coming in from the sky, it was most effective because you could really tell how fast that they were moving and how scared he must of been, when editing they sped up the scene but this was beneficial as it clearly stated the distance between the zombies and the man, this was really good as well as it felt like we were moving with him and we were involved as much as he was as we was around him the whole time. Overall I feel like this was the most effective shot out of the whole opening scene because of the different ways that it had an effect on everything.

Also another shot that was very effective was the close up shot right at the beginning, one of the first scenes that we saw really had an impact on the facial expressions by the woman and the man. This clearly showed the fear in there faces. One of the main things that were most effective about this was the pause that they had on the clip where the woman saw that she was being betrayed by her partner, she looked more scared and it looked like that had more of an impact on her than the whole situation that was happening with the zombies because of the man was meant to be the love of her life and her hero, but he chose to choose himself and attempt to save himself then look out for his family, this must of made the woman realise how much of a unreliable person that he actually can be and if they survived this would clearly show that he didn't love her as much as he may of put on and this would make her never trust him again, this would also of had an impact on her in years if they survived as it would make her never trust anybody again in the love aspect of life. These shots really bring out the facial expressions to the point where you feel sorry for them as you can really clearly tell how upset and frightened they are and it makes you think and put yourself in there shoes and also you understand why they feel and look like that because they realise its life or death. The part where it slows down on the woman's face has a big effective because it really emphasis to the audience what she is feeling and thinking.

The last shot that i found was effective was the high angle shot mixed with a close up shot, this was shown when the man was running away outside and the woman realised this and was screaming to him at the window, this was effective because it made the audience and the watchers how high up she was compared to him and how he got away so quickly from them and everything else that was going on inside compared to outside. This was also a very good shot as it was different to the usual shots and showed us from a different perspective, it wasn't from inside where the camera would usually be, It was kind of like we saw it from Dons point of view and what he would see, this has a big impact on the audience as if they saw from what he would see, this could give them a vision on what he was thinking at the time this happened. 

Overall, I believe that having different angles around the whole scene has a huge effect because if the scene was shot all from one angle, it would get a bit boring because we would see it from a different perspective, like from the point of views of the characters for example.