10.) Resident Evil Analysis

This opening scene reveals a city centre at night. It is from birds eye view in order to show the

people as being small and inconvenient.

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This blurred image of a city, shows bright lights and advertisements which implies

that the city or destination is quite technological. The street light is flashing

red showing the chaos and how busy it is. The low angle is trying to make the

buildings look bigger and overwhelming.

This shot of the busy street is dull and depressing due to the dar filter used. There is one lady in the

middle who isn't wearing an umbrella, she is getting wet and this draws attention to her. The other

peoples faces are not shown and they are seen as being inconvenient to her. The bright flashes of

colour from the umbrellas, break up the dark non-diabetic music in the background.

The lady is wearing bright red high heel shoes, they are very provocative and make her look important. Her tight match the zebra crossing on the road. This resembles how this lady may be of importance and may have control over

the other people without them knowing.

As the camera pans upwards, we see more and more of the unknown woman.

Her stance makes her look stern and that she is powerful and strong. The legs of

the other people in the background make her stand out and look different. Just like

the birds eye view.

The fonts of the names are all in silver and sharped edged writing. This resembles the feel of the

sequence. We can see that it is a gothic horror simply by the clothes and the music being played. The woman is wearing a dark black leather coat

which is another connotation for gothic horror. Her skin is pale and soaked. This implies that she may

not be human and instead something more mythological.

The shot of the anonymous lady is from the distance and is an over the shoulder

shot form the perspective of the pedestrians. She looks depressed and is looking down. This creates suspicion and make her look evil, which links back to

the little ‘resident evil’.

This is the first image we see of the lady’s face.We can see that this is set in Asia due to the actors and characters. Her hair is wet and her skin is pale. We

can only see part of her face so that it remains anonymous to the audience. The shot is taken from a

high angle looking down at her. This is how she is seen by the civilians around her, if she is even

noticed.

When she turns around we can see she has got very little completion which is a contrasts to the abstract clothe she is wearing. Her eyes are weak snd she looks tired. She is in the centre of the camera and the other people are blurred out. It

looks as if she is looking or searching for something or someone. He unusual behaviour doe snot attract any attention

and people carrying on walking, implying this may be expected. Or not out of the norm.

This clip shows an man looking at the woman from her perspective. This is the first sign of someone noticing her. This

causes the audience to become suspicious as to why he is looking at

her.

The music immediately changes to something more sinister and darker. Her mouths widens to reveal fangs and she

pounces on the man. He screams and blood squirts everywhere. We finally see that she is vampire or creature of some sort, revealing an answer to the normal behaviour. The

shot turns into birds eye view again and slowly zooms out revealing people running away from the scene.

Slowly an area of the city turns into darkness. A blackout can be assumed. The area becomes bigger and bigger

spreading out across the city. It resembles an illness spreading or

‘evil’. The music turns into a drone and become louder as it zooms out.