Walking Dead Analysis





This shows an abandoned house or barn. This also shows some Flowers at the bottom left hand side of the shot. It is a long-shot to show the full mise-en-scene. The editing of the shot has made the shot unsettling,eerie and to give it an almost haunted effect. It is edited to show the skies that look almost black due to the clouds, this is effective for the series survival-horror genre due to it looking almost like the hell on earth on which the show is based on. The mise-en-scene also looks post-apocalyptic.

This shot shows zombies trying to break open a door that is chained shut and has "DONT OPEN, DEAD INSIDE" scribbled on it in a dramatic fashion. The mise-en-scene is purely just the door and the zombies hands reaching through them in an evil and satanic fashion, almost as if there one hive mind and do it in unison, making all the more disturbing and evil to the audience. The camera is at a low-angle position to emphasize that they are the dominate enemies and there is little to no hope left for the survivors. It is edited so the only things visible are the door and the zombies so the audience gets the full picture of the horror in front of them.

Overall the Walking Dead's title sequence is an excellent example of a thriller introduction sequence. This is because our audience demographics is C2, which is students. Our thriller and The Walking Dead's opening appeal's to them because they want a good drama/story plus a sinister, depression world to escape into after a hard days study. In addition, The Walking Dead's opening follows thriller conventions due to the fact it uses degraded, dark environments that give the impression that something is hiding in the shadows whilst obscuring the audiences view. Also, its use of background editing is similar to many other thriller films like Seven and Silence Of The Lambs.