Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Directed by George A. Romero · Cinematography by Michael Gornick
127 min59 frames
HorrorScience Fiction
When there’s no more room in HELL, the dead will walk the EARTH!
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What is Dawn of the Dead about?
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein. An American-Italian international co-production, it is the second film in Romero's series of zombie films, and though it contains no characters or settings from the preceding film Night of the Living Dead (1968), it shows the larger-scale effects of a zombie apocalypse on society. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross star as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall during mass hysteria.
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What does the cinematography of Dawn of the Dead look like?
Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of Dawn of the Dead leans on medium shots (31% of the sample) and wide compositions (27%). The camera returns again and again to low angles. Cinematographer Michael Gornick keeps 44% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 47% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of Dawn of the Dead?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Dawn of the Dead (1978) are #322e2a, #121210, #54524d, #928a76, #d2d0ce, #8b776d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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