Genre: Horror
Year of Release: 2010
This film opening clearly exemplifies examples of camera movement relative to the ethos and genre of the film. In the first ten seconds of the opening for this film, the camera can be seen panning around the city displayed in the opening. This part of the opening is a crane shot. This is because the camera camera can be seen orbiting the city at above ground level. Throughout this opening, the tracking shots are used only for the sole purpose of exemplifying the structure of the city to an audience, giving them an accurate idea of the setting behind the movie. In addition to this, the visual breakdown of characters, through the visual movement from legs,waist and then face, are done effectively using crane shots. This is evident as you can see the camera slowly rise from head to toe for the civilians in this shot and following shortly after is the movement of the camera from just above the civilians, to higher than the buildings around them. The camera can be seen panning whilst the mysterious looking Koreans give each other the evil eye before one of them is killed in the shot. In addition to this, the crane shot is used to signify a chain reaction to the audience watching. This chain reaction represents the agonising murderous disease plaguing the planet. An audience can easily make this connotation as you can evidently see the progression of darkness destroying the planet through the use of an effective crane shot that pans around the orbit of the planet.
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