Dawn Of The Dead 2004 - Image 3 Analysis

This particular image expresses a news reporter talking about terrorist attacks; his face is very pixellated to indicate he is using a satellite phone that is common on channels such as CNN and Al Jaziera. In the back of the mise-en-scene we can see minarets, mosques and riots in the background, referring to the terrorism and a Middle East diegesis. This is a visual metaphor suggesting that terrorism spreads like a virus (like the zombies) from the Middle East.

This particular footage would be relevant to American audiences because present to the time this film was released, 2004, the Americans was involved in a land war with Iraq. Subsequently, corresponding to the importance of audiences in a film - wrote about by Janet Staiger: to fully understand a film you need to understand the audience to which this film consider their audience profoundly, this is what makes this film a lot more effective and succesful.