Narrative
The opening title sequence of 'Deadline' has a very unique narrative of 4 teenagers surviving an airborne virus that has accidentally been released into the air space of England by the military. From this the group of friends try and survive the attack of zombies and look for other survivors by hiding out at there old school because they thought it would be a good place for shelter. From what we see in the opening sequence the main character (John) meets up with (Shaun) and they are running away from the zombies because the zombies found out that they were taking shelter in the school. At the penultimate part of the sequence we see John run into the safe room with Matthew and Ray waiting for him and Ray says 'Did you get it?' to which John replies 'Yeah'. We used this as an enigma and this part of the sequence because we want the audience to be thinking from the start of the film what is it that he got? Our movie would have ended by there being a cliffhanger of the zombie rampaging forward towards the teenagers in one last stand to fight them and if help might come.
Genre
From the begging of the sequence you can see that our sequence is a horror mainly because of the sound that we used but also because of the text that you first see as it crawls up the screen. The sound is very striking at first then goes into a more calm but edgy feeling because the sound seems to be too mysterious to what is happening in the sequence. The text itself looks very dark and gloomy almost like it has a broken bone effect to it.
Camera, Angle, Shot Movement And Position
The main camera shot that we used when we see John and Shaun running from the zombies is a long shot this is because as the shot cuts to the next shot we wanted the audience to feel like they might not know if the zombies are gonna run out at any second or if they are far behind, so it is another mystery that keeps the audience thinking. most of our shots were of the upper body so the audience could see the expression and fear in the characters as they are literally running for there lives from the zombies.
Continuity & Editing
In the sequence there are a lot of cuts from different places from where we see John running from the zombies. From this we did mainly use editing techniques rather than trying to film the whole sequence in one go.
Sound
The sound of the sequence is very unique as it has a very mysterious effect to it. the music fits in with the pace of sequence but it has an effect that makes it sound like something mysterious and scary is about to happen. The final part of the sequence we see John waking up from his bed and walking into the bathroom to wake himself up. In this part we decided not to use any sound because it would have more of an effect of suspense when you hear the alarm clock go off and when there is just the sound of the running water.
Mise-En-Scene, Expressionism
For the Mise-En-Scene is the sequence we added things into the sequence such as the decapitated hand that is seen in some of the shots, from this we think that we know the zombies have been around here and they could still be there waiting for the teenagers to walk about there before they try to kill them. The lighting that is used is at some points differs, when we see John running in the corridor the lighting is very dark this is because we have the feeling that the zombies are near and it has a frightening effect. When we see Shaun closing the gate at telling John that he will try and hold the zombies off we see a bright sky and lighting is good because it looks like Shaun is is maybe suppose to be the one who stops the zombies and is represented in this scene as a hero or savior sent from heaven to defeat the evil monsters.
Typography
The typography of the writing throughout the sequence is very gloomy and looks like it has a broken bone effect to it. The typography of the title Deadline has a more bloody and dark effect to it because of the edgy effect used it has a more rough visually effect almost like you can not see what is there.
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