This photograph taken from Dawn
of the Dead (1979) shows the audience the location of where the film is
set. A long shot is used to show the audience the full scale of the shopping
mall which links to the time when the film was made when shopping malls had
just opened up in America. People were excited about the newly opened shopping
malls, so for people to see shopping malls conveyed like this in the film was
more shocking to audiences. The high angle shot also shows the zombies which
represents slow moving monsters of the film. The mall is very enclosed which
creates a claustrophobic environment for the characters.
Contrapuntal music is used in
this scene when we see the zombies walking through the shopping mall. The music
that is being played is a happy up beat piece which comes across weird and
unsettling to the audience. The lighting in this scene appears to be both high
key and light, to create a sense of darkness within the light areas again
showing good from bad.
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