'28 Days Later', Danny Boyle, 2003
(please ignore the Ad at the beginning!)
Focusing on London town, this opening scene cuts from location to location, ingeniously capturing the loneliness and emptiness of the normally bustling city. This is probably the one scene from the hit film that people remember the most due to its effectiveness and ability to create a huge impact on the audience. It is unsettling and quite unnerving seeing London from this prospective. It encourages the omen that bad things are soon to happen and sets the scene for a dark and disturbing tale.
'I Am Legend', Francis Lawrence, 2007
(Watch up until 0.50 min)
This clip was extremely hard to get hard of and the above link would not let me embed so please have a look. This yet again sets a lonely and deserted scene whilst also instilling an inkling of dread and up-and-coming havoc. There is something about this clip, maybe it is through its silence and stillness, which is alarming and perturbing. It should create a sense of calm but ultimately does the opposite; it is almost too quiet. These predictions are correct as the story unfolds into a horrendous series of events encircling zombies/infected humans.
These types of scenes would be brilliant to help to introduce and open our film. I visualise the camera capturing a deserted street, then a deserted house, deserted hallway and living room; then i see the camera pausing and focusing on a television that then flicks on by itself. From here our spot will follow, making it unclear whether the visual is real or simply just a TV clip.
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