SOTD - Cinematography Flashcards
When was Wright’s signature visual style established?
It was established in the British TV series, spaced, commissioned by Channel 4.
How do Wright and Dunlap use cinematography devices do in SOTD?
To employ a comic hyperbole, playing on a deliberated disjunction between the whip pans and strident chords of action cinema. This hybrid approach allows the director to utilise the high production values of Hollywood cinema, and to blend these with mundane British settings
In the trip to the shop sequence, what shot type does Wright employ?
A continuous tracking shot that follows Shaun from his home to his local shop, This shot lasts over 60 seconds and is a clear indication of Wright’s post-modern style
How is the slow zoom effective in the trip to the shop sequence?
The slow zoom towards Shaun’s answer machine is effective in foreshadowing the perilous themes of the narrative, this is captured through the red flashing light on the phone
What does the continuous tracking shot in the trip to the shop sequence provide?
It provides grandeur and realism to suburbia, as well as allowing the spectator to observe a number of incidental local characters who appear as zombies later in the narrative.
What does a quick cut to a close up a newspaper headline reveal?
This cinematography, alongside the diegetic sounds of a radio hinting at the possible causes of the zombie outbreak e.g a super flu, reveal an enigma of a man-made zombie apocalypse which is never resolved
How does Wright employ post-modernist concepts via cinematography?
He uses the camera to make intertextual references and pastiche to many horror productions e.g Shaun walks a road sweeper on which you can hear a report of how a pace probe has entered the atmosphere and has fell apart over a heavily populated are which is a direct reference to Night of the Living Dead
