The Crazies
The first scene is actually an action before narrative, which is more effective than we think at this very point. The first scene opens with a tilted shot which comes down to reveal a house which is ablaze. The scene then cuts to a wide shot of a strip of houses to bring to our attention that the flame has spread to all of the houses. The director then uses a simple black screen which has text on it which reads "two days earlier" and effectively uses soft contrapuntal music which completely counteracts the scene we've just seen. The director then uses a variety of camera shots which follow a car that leads into the same strip of houses which were on fire in the very first scene, this backs up the fact that its just shown the future. The director then uses a variety of shots which show civilisation in the town. The next scene is one of which a baseball game is taking place. This is in fact where we first are given an insight into how the infected characters act. The director uses a wide shot which shows the baseball players fielding and in the very distance an infected man has entered the field wielded with a shotgun. The dialogue which is then used by the FBI in this scene shows us as the audience that this man is known by the policeman.
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