Analysis of the opening sequences of Against The Dark

The opening sequence of the film again the dark starts this on screen computer screen of a message “infected,” begin type on the screen, the message was then dissolved in to a DNA type symbols encoded in blood, a second typing on the screen of a breaker down to the meaning of one of the words on the screen of the first screen appear, typing, it gives the meaning of the verb “trans” followed by the mean “ affect a person, organism with a disease,” this show the audience that the following film is about a epidemic of a virus of some type that have broken open in a mass community or country.

The symbolic relationship in the opening titles is the that because it is short and direct it make it seem like it a last message of some type, and seeing that the last message was infect, it also makes the title seem like a important message to the audience, also the font in which its written in is mostly used in futuristic science fiction film and also in type of military films , ether way this show the audience that the film contain military unit action, science fiction and a element of futuristic action and technology.

Second scene was of a person eating the mutilated body of a person in a frantic manner, the diagetic sound of the infected human was like the sound of a hungry wild animal franticly devouring its prey. Their hands was in it belly feeling to find it organs, there prey’s flesh and blood was all around there face and hand. Then there scene jumped into the third scene and there was darkness, then the second scene flash before you and it was the continuation of the fest of the human victim, the another flash in darkness and then the camera cut to the other people that have being infected by the virus, the camera was set as point of view shot from the audience point of view, the director used this camera technique to make the audience feel like they’re in the room with the infected.

After there was flash cuts of other people in a building of some type with the camera long shot which the quickly zooms in to a close up shot of the victims face.

Then the was a voice over of a female narrator talk about what happen in the early stage of the release of the virus, the director used the voice of the female narrator to add to the graphic imagery of the murder and the caring that taking place in the nation to make the audience begin to feel sad about what happen and allowing the audience to feel that she’s the protagonist of the film and he roll in the film is to fight her was to freedom. This was add by her saying “there was no vac sing or any report of ever getting saved my the military, neighbourhood was wipe out in minutes”

The opening sequence of the film is shot in fast short takes and used a lot of establishing shot of the location to show the disaster of the environment after the outbreak. The font used in the title against the dark looks like is being carved out of a wall and has being eroded by the elements. Symbolically, the use of titles font can be represented as the characters in the film, it shows how the characters had to change and become hard to live because of their environment and it also show that they have being forgotten.

· The film against the dark was written by Mathew Klickstein and directed by Richard Crudo.

· The budget of against the dark is an estimated $9,000,000 which is £4,500,000.

· Distributed by sony picture entrainment picture.

· The actors of the film are Steven Seagal, Tanoai Reed, Jenna Harrison, Danny Midwinter, Emma Catherwood, Stephen Hagan, Daniel Percival, Skye Bennett, Linden Ashby, and Keith.

· The film was produced by Castel Film Romania, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Steamroller Productions which is a Los Angeles based Production Company started by Steven Seagal in 1990, and was involved in Seagal's early work.

· Against the dark was distrusted in UK: 18, Australia:MA (2008), Norway:15 and as Netherlands:16.

From the information that I have collected on against the dark have come to the conclusion that the film it targeted at a target audience of the age of 18+, the target audience would also be a fan of the protagonist, Steven Sigel, and the target audience would like the genre of horror thriller and action . Also if you like films like under siege and under siege 2 you would also enjoy the film because they both have the same protagonist.

The director Richard Crudo is also well know cinematographer and has a lot of experience within filming and has also work on films like 60 minute and 20/20.

The open sequence of the film address the target audience with the use of horror through the use of the monsters eating there victim, this would attract an audience that like horror and bloody films. Also the open sequence of the film address the target audience if the person like the narration of the world ending and the people are all zombie and the other people have to get food and protect them self from the zombies.