Opening 6 (my genre) World War Z

World War Z

Information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EC7P5WdUko

Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/world-war-z/
Rating: 7/10 IMDB 67% Rotten Tomatoes

Behind the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2w29aHYueM

Release Date: 21 June 2013

Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror

Age Rating: PG-13

Director: Marc Forster

Writers: Matthew Micheal Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof, J.Micheal Stracynski

Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz

Budget: $190,000,000

Gross: $540,007,876

Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Skydance Productions, Hemisphere Media Capital, GK Films, Plan B Entertainment, 2DUX2, Apparatus Productions, Latina Pictures

Synopsis: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Length of title sequence: 3:20

Idents:

Paramount – darker than usual, heartbeat sound.

Plan B – Black background white bold font. Heartbeat.

SkyDance – darker than usual, heartbeat.

Hemisphere – heartbeat.

GK films – heartbeat.

Text: In order (all the texts seem to be Tahoma font)

PARAMOUNT PICTURES AND SKYDANCE PRODUCTION PRESENTS – white bold font black background, centered, 3sec

IN ASSOCIATION WITH HEMISPHERE MEDIA CAPITAL AND GK FILMS – white bold font black background, centered, 3sec

A PLAN B ENTERTAINMENT/ 2Dux² PRODUCTION– white bold font, black background, centered, 3sec

A MARC FORSTER FILM - white bold font, black background (left) birds flying (right), to the left, 2sec

BRAD PITT – White bold font, black background (right) quite neighborhood (left), 2sec

MIREILLE ENOS – White bold font, black background (right) nice houses (left) 2sec

DANIELLA KERTESZ – White bold font, black background (left) crowed walking (right) 2sec

JAMES BADGE DALE – white bold font, black background (right) People walking down stairs (left) 2sec

DAVID MORSE – White bold font, black background (left) crowd walking (right) 2sec

FANA MOKOENA DAVID ANDREWS – Whit bold font, black background (left) plain flying (right) 2sec

STERLING JERINS ABIGAIL HARGROVE – White bold font, black background (left) ants (right) 2sec

PETER CAPALDI PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO – White bold font, black background (left) police office (right) 2sec

LUDI BOEKEN GREGORY FITOUSSI – White bold font, black background (left) filled streets (right) 2sec

CASTING BY KATE DOWN – White bold font, black background (left/centered) sea (both sides mostly right) 2sec

VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR SCOTT FARRAR – White bold font, black background (left) waves crashing (right) 2sec

MUSIC BY MARCO BELTRAMI – White bold font, black background (right) Piers morgen (left), 2sec

ADDITIONAL MUSIC BY MATTHEW BELLAMY PERFORMED BY MUSE – White bold font, black background (left) waves (right), 3sec

COSTUME DESIGNER MAYES C. RUBEO – White bold font, black background (left) traffic jam (right) 2sec

EDITED BY ROGER BARTON MATT CHESSE – White bold font, black background (right) full bus (right) 2sec

PRODUCTION DESIGNER NIGEL PHELPS – White bold font, black background (left) socks (right) 2sec

DIECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHUY BEN SERESIN, ASC, BSC – White bold font, black background (top left) people walking (right), 2sec

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS MARC FORSTER BRAD SIMPSON – White bold font, black background (left) people walking (right), 3sec

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS DAVID ELLISON DANA GOLDBERG PAUL SCHWAKE – White bold font, black background (centre) concert crowd (left, right) 3sec

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS GRAHAM KING TIM HEADINGTON – White bold font, black background (left) man talking (right) 3sec

PRODUCED BY BRAD PITT DEDE GARDNER JEREMY KLEINER – White bold font, black background (left) man taking a picture (right) 3sec

PRODUCED BY IAN BRYCE – White bold font, black background (left) crowd walking (right) 2sec

BASED ON THE NOVEL BY MAX BROOKS – White bold font, black background (left) man working (right) 2sec

SCREEN STORY BY MATTHEW MICHEAL CARNAHAN AND J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI – White bold font, black background (right) business man (left) 3sec

SCREENPLAY BY MATTHE MICHEAL CARNAHAN AND DRE GODDARD & DAMON LINDELOF – Whit bold font, Black background (left) rotting beetle (right) 3sec

DIRECTED BY MARC FORSTER – Whit bold font, black background (left) hive of ants (right) 2sec

WORLD WAR Z – Big Bold, transparent text, flashing images in text, Black background, fades to forest

Editing:

There are only cuts used in the title sequence, the pace of editing isn’t too fast except at the very end when you see the world war z title the editing becomes very fast passed so images are flashing on screen. There is a clip in between each text that pops up.

Mise-en-scene:

The clips they use are very smart as it starts of really peacefully and shows peoples everyday life as well as natural life such as animals. As it goes on the clips get more violent such as aggressive animals and talk about the end of the world. There are news clips of politicians talking about how the world is dying. At the end there is a clip of wolves ripping apart another animal.

Sound:

There is a faint sound of a heartbeat as the idents are popping up. When the text first appears you here music start playing. The music is kind of fantasy sci-fi and is something you would expect to hear in a zombie genre like Resident evil. At around 1:43 non-diegetic sound starts with a lot of news/radio reports saying “good Morning”. As the clips go on you hear the weather reports. You can hear a news reporter talk about a virus. There are clips of reality and talk shows in the middle of clips of violent acts like dolphins dying.

Evaluation:

This is a very smart intro as it explains the genre. It starts of very peaceful and rapidly gets more intense as there is talk of the end of the world and images of animals dying. The editing picks up pace as the clips get more intense. The inrto is telling us about how we are destroying the world with CO2 and other world problems. The Text is very dull but is very effective.