'SAM'

I AM LEGEND ‘SAM’

This extract displays the connection between humans and animals; the daylight is above the dog this is significance that he’s the light the only way that the actor Will Smith can escape the darkness at this point Smith is caught on the rope and there is a deep focus on him trying to cut the rope this is to express to the audience that all focus is on cutting the rope and that both man and dog are observing the rope. Momentarily Smith drops onto a knife and starts to screech what’s ordinary is that the dog ‘Sam’ would start to scream too but instead Sam is in a two shot relaxing smith standing by him. Next shot is of the road and in our field of vision is the shadow of the structures signing sundown subsequently Smith is swarming back with Sam walking alongside Smith detecting for any trouble , we see the car on this left side of the rule of third. Following we hear dogs barking then Sam barking back and smith asking him to stop as if he could understand “NO, NO we got to go home Sam” the camera cuts to a shot of the sun light between the building telling the audience any second the CGI dogs we can tell they are CGI by the pulling focus on the dog next there’s a handheld view form the car looking downward to the gun in the car. Soon the light vanishes then the CGI dogs start to run and one dog jumps to Smith but Sam jump into the dog in mid-air this is presenting the relationship Smith and Sam have is significant and Sam would fight to defend Smith whist the fight is happening in the background, non-diegetic sound is being play and it is a fast drum bass music to show the tension and feeling at this moment and is cut off when all the CGI dogs are dead. At the fight smith see Sam get hurt by another dog and shouts “NO” showing us he doesn’t want to loss Sam to the infection and the only relationship he as. Smith shoots all the CGI dogs however Sam is a dog but that doesn’t matter to him he sees a different between Sam and other dogs and later in the movie I doesn’t shoot Sam he lets him die in his hands like a loved one. Nearer to the end of the scene Sam walks and drops in discomfort afterward the fight and smith stands up even nevertheless he couldn’t of one minute ago and picks up Sam and murmurs “its okay”

To close this scene shows the different between pets and animals and how barriers between humans and animals can be overcome when differences are put aside.