Dawn of the Dead Title Sequence

In Dawn of the Dead the opening titles are over black which gives a different feel about the sequence and makes it appear scary. This was all cut between different video clips that looked like news stories, but there is some real footage of rioting. All of the clips have a grainy effect used to make them look more realistic. The credits are over a black background, and use red text to give the effect of blood as it fits in with the horror genre. The music that is played over the top is Johnny Cash’s ‘When the man comes around’. The credits start off with ‘UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS’, which is the name of the distributor, it then cuts to people in a world war 2 concentration camp. Next it names the studios involved with the films creation. A clip of a zombie is then shown before the title ‘DAWN OF THE DEAD’ is shown. In the same font used in the previous cases. The titles after this are: SARAH POLLEY, VING RAIMES, JAKE WEBBER, TAY BURRELL, and MEKHI PHIFER, all on separate screens. A voice over from a hospital speaks about a virus and how they do not know the cause. Over the next clips Johnny Cash begins to play, then some more actors appear on the same screen and this shows that they are not as important as Sarah Polley. It is unusual for costume designers and make up artists to be credited. This may be because they wanted to extend the credits so they could make more of an impact whilst using the shots that have been cut in. 

Four Pitches

Three Men break into an office to find two dead bodies, as the police pull up. They then have to escape by resorting to desperate measures, but greed makes tests their both moral and physical limits.

Six men are stuck in prison and need to survive by learning to fight and become the most important and respected untill they are faced with a dilema when the warden gives them the chance to be released early but they don't take it.

A virus breaks out and a couple learn how to survive by travelling through Britain whilst zombies try and eat them, and then they find safety in a prison in which they are able to plan an escape route.

A group of teenagers go up into a forrest planning to get drunk and have a party but half way through a good night an unwanted visitor turns up and slowly picks off the teenagers one by one, and at the end one of the teenagers finds a gun and then kills him.