D.I.S.T.I.N.C.T Analysis
The setting is clear in the trailer as the is a pub, people houses and gardens. It is obviously a suburban area. This is a good setting for a zombie movie as there are lots of familiar zombies that Shaun and Ed recognise and lots of people who live in the surounding area have the potential to become zombies. Also because of the urban area there are lots of building and cars that all have the potential to be a big part in the movie, in this film particularly, the pub.Technical Codes in the trailer display the comical nature of the film. The sound at the start seem the sound and look like an orthodox zombie trailer with the deep, stern voice of the voice over, and the static of the clip editing, with lots of background noise, in addition to the quick takes of zombie faces and ambulances. The editing freezes shots that are funny or important, which highlight the main plot of the movie. Towards the main, middle part of the trailer the clips are shorter and cuts smaller, as well as the music getting faster to confirm the horror aspect even though the clips themselves are often humourous. There is a particularly good sequence in the trailer where a track shot is used to follow Shaun approaching a flat block battering zombies with a cricket bat.
There are many obvious examples of iconography in the clip. For example you would expect to find deserted cars in the streets, asynchronous sound of glass smashing or screams, and blood trails and stains on the floor etc. You would expect to find these things in a zombie movie and the iconography in the trailer illustrates clearly that the audience is going to see some sort of zombie movie.
The Narrative is somewhat unclear from what the trailer shows. We do however, know a list of things; We know that it is a zombie/comedy film, we know that the protagonist is Shaun played by Simon Pegg, we know that Shaun is accompanied by his best friend Ed and various other characters. We also know a variety of locations and scenes from the movie such as Shaun and Ed's house and the Winchester pub. What they do in movie as far as the plot is concerned, is relatively vague. We know they have to leave their house because of a zombie break in and that they go to the pub at some point, but the rest of the trailer shows humourous clips and memorbale moments.
Characters are clearly shown in the trailer, at least the main ones are. Shaun is displayed as the main character, hence the title 'Shaun Of the Dead'. Shaun's best friend Ed is also shown as another protagonist character. The other characters are briefly shown but not elaborated upon. We see David, the man with glasses running from a pack of zombies, we see liz, Shaun's girlfriend (unknown from the trailer) and flashes of a few other characters and zombies.
Themes in the trailer are definitely comedy and irony as there are a few humourous clips in the middle of a zombie apocalypse which could definitley be perceived as irony. Also, underreaction is a theme of the trailer as there are clips where Shaun and Ed underreact to extreme situations, for example, when they run over a zombie and stop, ask if he's alright and when the zombie gets up shaun is releived they didnt kill him.
There are multiple binary oppositions in the trailer, for example:
undead and alive - zombies trying to kill humans and vice versa
safety and danger - safety in Shaun's house and the danger of outside
attack and defence - the cricket bat Shaum kills zombies with and the barricade in the pub
normal and abnormal - Shaun and Ed's normal life of going to work and playing video games etc. which turned to fighting through the streets for survival against zombies.
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