Group Shaun of the Dead Close Reading

The first 4min of shaun of the dead.The opening scene starts off with music that sounds scary but has a twist of comedy so your not sure whats going to happen. The screen becomes blank and the music builds up and up like something interesting is going to happen, but you hear a bell ring and theres a medium close up of shaun looking bored and taking a sip of his beer. Hes in his own little world,just daydreaming so it builds up to nothing at all just a boring character who has no life. After the basic intro in the Winchester, the camera starts to play a ‘bouncy – horror’ type music. This music lets the audience realize the movie is a comedy. The continuation of the intro shows the audience the scenery of the town, so that they can get a general idea of the area.Liz starts to confront Shaun, he shifts his focus to her but still sits looking blankly and using minimal responses. Liz asks “do you see what I’m saying?” Shaun clearly hasn’t been paying attention and simply says “yeah”. Already in this first 40 seconds we have a good insight to Shaun’s life. He is just a simple guy who has problems in his life and would rather ignore them at the pub then solve them. The lighting of the scene is Bright in the for ground and dark in the back. This is used to just show what is needed and nothing extra in the background. The charactors faces are well light so you can see all of there expressions and manorisms, especially Shaun as he is the most important.
After the opening 'Bar scene' it cuts to the opening credits with this strange circusy type music playing. The camera pans across a supermarket showing the workers looking quite a lot like zombies the shot then changes to a view of a bus stop with several men texting on their phones in a uniformed way. The shot changes once more to a group of 'Hoodies' doing a strange dance in an alley then changes again to a view of Shaun's house where a young teen plays hackey with a soccer ball. The scene ends with Shaun's feet stumbling out of bed in a sluggish manner.