This is a 2 minute clip from popular zombie apocalyptic movie World War Z. In these two minutes wee see a chaotic New York City running everywhere trying to escape from zombies.We see a family in car: a husband, a wife and two daughters. The husband seems to be focused on driving behind the garbage truck and getting out of there, however this does not go well and he crashes into another car and the clip ends there. The wife looks very worried all of the time and is trying to keep the kids safe this conforms with the role of the mother. The daughters seem very scared and upset, one of the daughters demands for her blanket to comfort her in this hard time. It is a strong scene as you can feel all four of these characters emotions. You feel how scared they all are, how focused the husband is, how worried the wife is and how upset the kids are and we worry about all of them and makes us go to the edge of our seats to see what happens next. The camera angles are all amazing throughout these two minutes with a range from close ups to high angles and some mid shots, even a canted angle.
This certain camera angle is very effective as it is a high angle/mid shot showing perfectly the destruction and panic that is happening in the city. In this shot we see a garbage truck destroying all the cars in the way trying to escape. We see the garbage truck flipping all the cars and this mid shot shows this perfectly as we can see the complete destruction and the wonderful effect of the car flipping. The high angle makes this perfect as well as we also see people running as they are not only scared from the zombies but also scared of the flying cars everywhere we can see that this camera angle is trying to make them look vulnerable and it works very well. The high angle shows the situation perfectly we are now informed about the panic and the destruction happening down the city and we also know that the people of the city are vulnerable.
This camera angle is a close up mix with mid shot as we see Brad Pitt on the left of the cameras sight with people in a state of panic behind him. His facial expression in shot is very strong as we now know he is the main character as he is the first thing we see after the crash, the facial expression shows shock of the city as this is the first time he sees the main area of panic and he doesn't seem to know what to do in this moment. The reason hes on the left is you don't see the character in the middle as we don't need him to be the center of attention and we wouldn't have the effect of the panicking people behind him.
This final scene is the most effective as it is a aerial shot. These shots tend to be the most effective as it usually shows the chaos around, everything that is happening, whats happening and sometimes a shocking dead city. This one is effective because it shows complete chaos, it shows the state of panic on how its not just a few people it is literally the whole city terrified of the zombies. We see people running around not knowing where to go, we also see cars and buses abandoned in middle of the road. This camera angle would be most likely used by a drone or a helicopter or even set up on a high building. Aerial shots are rare but always used effectively as seen here we can also see this being used in other effective scenes in movies like: Skyfall, Wolf of Wall Street, Spectre and Captain America Civil War.
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