This wide shot
shows the zombies in the shopping mall that the characters stay in. Firstly we
can say that the mise-en-scene of
this location is creepy and enclosed. It is popular for horror directors to use
creepy enclosed locations because the vast majority of people fear from
claustrophobia. We can also say that this shot connotes how large organisations determine what we buy. There was a
lot of uproar about consumerism at the time this film was made. This means we
can say that this film relates to the historical
context of its time. Another technique used in scene is contrapuntal music of stereotypical
‘mall music’; making the mall eerie. Romero’s films usually challenge the CDI
which may be why his films were so succesfull. For example, in this film there
is a black hero. For the time it was released this was out of the norm and was
possibly influential to other directors of the time.
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