I Am Legend
The Basic Plot of I Am Legend is as follows - Years after a plague which was designed to cure cancer mutates and kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
As the start of this opening scene, there is a voiceover which sounds two commentators from a football game. While this is on in the background there is the various companies logos appears such as Village Roadshow Pictures, Weed Road Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, and Warner Brothers.
After this has been shown the camera cuts to a medium shot of the television, it looks like the shot has been filmed from the point of view of someone watching it. As you listen you relise they are discussing about curing cancer and this sets up the plot for the rest of the film. The title sequence for I
Am Legend has very similar conventions to other thrillers I have looked at however it is much shorter and very quickly make you aware that this 'cure' is going to be the problem of the film. After this the shot cuts to black for several seconds then a establishing shot of a deralicked city appears stating it is three years after the scene before. This makes you realise the cure for cancer has destroyed the city.
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