Shaun of the Dead opening 2mins!

The clip starts with a close up of a mans feet. We slowly tilt up to reveal the mans face. From the background we can see that he’s at home. We can hear non diegetic up beat jolly sounding music. We then hear a diegetic sound of the man groaning as yawns. We then cut to a shot of the man living room. We can see his room mate chilling out on the sofa playing the Xbox. We then slowly zoom in to both friends as they play the Xbox. The music then quickly speeds up, the shot length increases. We quickly see a shots of him unzipping his flies, flushing the toilet, brushing his teeth, washing his hands and putting of his shirt. From these first few clips we would get the idea the films genre is action / horror.

We then cut to a close of up man looking at him self in the mirror. The length of the shot is very long letting us focus on his emotionless face. He slight turns his face and a man appears and speaks in a deep clear voice. “You left the door open again last night” From this point onwards the genre is established as horror / black comedy. We then cut a to a sequence of very short shots. These strange bursts of fast paced editing and shot duration of shots give the film a very mysterious and odd feeling. After this we cut to a long shot of both the man talking in the kitchen. We can hear the diegetic sound of the other man still in the living room playing the Xbox