One piece of Cooper's work that caught my eye was his involvement in the title sequence for Dawn of the Dead. The sequence begins by cutting between black screen and short shots of chaos. During the black screen we hear a press conference about a virus, which we can easily connect to the scenes of zombies. The use of red text running off screen like blood instantly sets the genre of a slasher horror, and if this wasn't already obvious enough the sounds of heartbeats and screaming hit the nail in the coffin. I really like Coopers choice of soundtrack; Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around. It not only adds to the chaos of the following scenes, but it casually gives the audience that the virus is deadly. This soundtrack matched with the 'channel flipping' on the TV, create a sense of realism and relatability. All in all the opening sequence did exactly what it was meant to. It layed out the situation, the tone, the genre, all while maintaining the interest of the audience with impressive visuals of riots and chaos.
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