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. So you see shaun and his girlfriend talking about how their relationship is at, just going to the winchester every night. The expressions are still captured with a medium close-up, but they don't start off both in the same shot.
You hear the bell ring again and you can see on shauns table they have been there the whole night because there were beer glasses everywhere, which is shown by a medium shot next to his girlfriend. As they get closer talking to each other and ever so boring, theres a cut to a close-up of shaun and his girlfriend, but shows shuns best friend ed playing video games and commenting to himself how much he sucks every time shaun has a quick break from talking. From looking at eds clothes and the way he speaks and his body language no one likes him and he doesn't have a job. As we also listen in the bar its got that boring music which sets the scene for shaun. Humour is added when ed speaks in such rude comments like when he finishes his game.
Ed gets some money out which cuts to a close-up of the coins coming out of the machine, he then comes over to shaun and his girlfriend. This cuts to a high angle wide so you can see shaun, his girlfriend, people in the bar and shauns girlfriends friends sitting way over on another table trying to join in with the conversation because there so bored after what seems like forever.(this is shown as a wide shot with them sitting next to each other, which shows they must know each other quite well. Quick cut to a high angle of ed looking at shaun and his girlfriend, then a quick cut to a low wide angle from the table in between the glasses. Ed makes a rude comment " do any of you c**ts want a drink" towards shaun and his girlfriend with a high angle. This shows ed is very annoying. A medium shot looking at shaun again, then ed throws a packet of peanuts at his face, which makes a laugh, but not to ed as if he always does that. Shaun eats his peanuts with a depressed face trying to concentrate on what his girlfriend is saying. The surrounding sounds get weaker and shaun goes back into his own world again.

This scene is started the same and ended the same but with the shot coming out of his face at the start and going towards him at the end. The scene also starts and ends with shaun drifting off into his own world. Even though this starter scene is boring with comedy it actually tells you a lot about each character that spoke. From looking at their expressions body language and how they are dressed you can see how the characters each have their own unique personality's and styles. The scene also shows how boring, lazy and stupid shaun and ed are and how their relationships don;t work with people.