ZDTV

The ZDTV broadcasting company has used a combination of human personalities, red geometric shapes, and an unusual fictional world. Colors within the clip are golden warm shades, and movements within the clip are floating with smooth transitions. There are four personalities shown beginning with a black dressed designer. He is the creator who is shown with his finger on the corner of a holey cube that is spinning. This display gives the viewer the feel that this person, whose head and face is intentionally not shown, has the control of the fictional world that he has created. As he spins the cube the camera zooms in close to his face as he peers into the cube and eventually the camera zooms to within the inner core of the cube.
Once inside the cube a beautiful fictional world is uncovered. The world has a dark glistening body of water covering the entire surface of this world. The water appears like black glass, with small waves jumping consistantly as white light reflects off the surface. In the distance is a warm golden cloudy sunset with the clouds floating slowly. In this world three more personalities are introduced. Two are a young boy with a black cap, white shirt, suspenders and short trousers sitting in a small wooden rowboat, holding a fishing pole. With the young boy in the boat, is a gentleman, who also has a european look to him. This gentleman is the oarsman of the boat, appearing as a kind person, either a family member or friend who has the boys best interest in mind. As the two are sitting in the old wooden row boat, a beautiful woman dressed in a black silky flowing outfit walks into the scene. She appears to be walking through the water, which must be only a few inches deep. This helps to set the scene as a fictional world, how could the two be fishing and rowing a boat in only 2 inches of water? One item in the shot is placed to clearly identify that this world is one that is not possible in reality. The one item that clearly identifies the fictional world is the fish. Orange, golden colored fish are randomly swimming past the woman and the two in the boat, but they are floating through the air, not in the water.
The young boy then holds up a small red cube and hands it to the woman. The red cube represents the ZDTV logo, and the fictional world. The woman takes the cube and moves over toward a larger cube that is hollow and steps within the center void. She holds up the small cube and it floats within the void. The camera zooms into the red cube which is morphing into a blob. It appears to be changing shape as it determines it identity. Eventually the small cube transforms into the ZDTV logo cube.

The sounds in the beginning of the piece are very technical sounding. The music has electrical zaps and effects within it. As the shots change to the fictional world the music has a foreign, less technical sound. The music is egyptian or sounding as if from some part of the middle east. This ties in well with the woman, and her outfit and enhances the mystical feeling of the piece.

The Mummy

The credits to this movie open on a black screen. Slowly in the background the lower portion of a sarcophagus comes into view and the camera pans up until the doglike head of the sarcopagus is visible. The whole time the sarcophagus is being panned by the camera, in the background a very eerie sound effect is played. It is kind of a combination of a mysterious haunting scream and a heavy wind. The scream doesn't sound human it has an unfamiliar sound to it. When the doglike head is shown in a full frontal shot, the movie title, The Mummy comes from the foreground into alignment in front of the doglike head. The text is both emitting a glowing light into the black background, and the letters are also holding rolling flames within the boundaries of the title letters. Skeleton bones are thrown from the text to the left and off the screen, and then the title explodes into small embers than shoot out and disppear off the screen to the left in the high winds that can be heard. The camera pans around the sarcophagus showing the left profile of the doglike head. Also in view is a swirling mass of locusts in both the foreground and background. This shot fades out and the black screen is back.
Onto the black screen the wall of a tomb is softly lit, but it is only a very small area of the tomb wall that is visible. The effect is as if this small area was being lit by a torch. In the background a mysterious song begins to play, the song has the perfect effect to introduce intrigue and interest. As credits appear onto the scene they enter randomly so that the words cannot be identified until completly exposed. This ties in well with the hierogliphics displayed on the tomb wall. The overal effect makes the view feel like they are unraveling hidden messages within a tomb, while they are doing little more than reading movie credits. Also as letters are exposed some enter as hierogliphic symbols that are then converted to letters. This is a nice touch keeping to the movie setting.