RESEARCH Art of the Title 2 - Gremlins

The second Art of the Title:

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First Lesson Analysis

In our first lesson of A level Media we analysed and deconstructed a photograph by the photographer Marc Riboud.

This Photograph is of a woman (Jan Rose Kasmir) holding up a flower to the armed soldiers while taking part with several thousand anti-war activists on the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's march to The Pentagon. The photograph connotes the feeling that war is unnecessary and inhumane. The flower is a symbol of safety, hope and freedom. The photograph denotes a woman holding a flower in front of the soldiers who were going to fight. Jan holds the flower to show the soldiers what is the right thing to do.

Roland Barthes, who studied semiotics which is closely related to the field of linguistics, which studies the structure and meaning of language. 

Research Art of the title 1 - Zombieland

Zombieland (2009)

In the opening of Zombieland, the opening sequence hints at the comedy and horror genre because it has guns and fire in the background then has a zombie eating a man close up but then goes to a fat man running. In the next scene a guy gets eaten by a zombie on a toilet which is funny.

In the credits, the rules that the narrator and main character uses to survive zombieland are shown in red and white, Also the names of the people that were involved in the production of the film. Towards the end of the opening sequence the title of the film is shown.

The colour of the names and title were all in red to symbolise blood which is associated with zombies and the rest of the opening sequence is full of quite dull colours such as beige, brown, black, and dark red. In this frame, the editing to create the breaking of the glass and the name of the movie ‘Zombieland’ matches with the violence in the background.

The Audience in drawn in by the use of zombies which is what teenagers are typically drawn to when they watch a horror movie. The title sequence also creates a background for the movie itself as it shows what has happened to the world around the narrator and main character of the film.