8 opening sequences analysis

Anicia Brown

Genre: Horror

How it meets the conventions:

Blood/ gore

Evil/bad characters

Causes fear and panic in the audience

Death

isolated settings

Fonts/Titles

Images

Camera Shots

Extreme close up

Establishing shot

Image of a baby and a young child

Uses handwriting/Sariff and printed text

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4RgkSMXyLY

Fonts and titles: These were in Handwriting/ Sariff (printed text)

Camera Shot:The camera shots uses were close-ups, extreme close ups, long shots & establishing Shots

Camera angle: it used straight, low and also high angles

Camera movement: it uses more handheld cameras

Sound: Non-Diagetic-Slow creepy noises, low sound, low drum beatDiegetic- makes it seem more realistic as the characters can hear it themselves as well as the audience

Special effects: Slow motion

Transitions: Fade in & out, dissolve

Editing / Pace: Fast and slow cuts were used and the pace went from slow to fast

Images:Denotation- picture of a baby, character covered in bandagesConnotation- it shows the audience anger, danger, torture & abuse

I think the target audience is for slightly older teenagers and adults as they would be able to understand it more than a younger audience.

I know this because I have known people of a younger age that found it hard understand and also people of a older age the did understand

Fonts Titles

Camera Shots Extreme Close up hand

on door knob

• To show the action • The characters

anticipation

Close Up of characters face

Long Shot of character walking

• To show audience characters emotions

• Vulnerability, fear anticipation, hot the character is apprehensive

• Shows what the characters action is

Long shot of character entering room

• Shows the characters fear and also shows a bit of representation of the character.

Camera movement

Camera Shaking, Zooming in and out

• Emphasising the trembling and fear

Non- Diegetic

• Background music• Broken• Off key • Emphasises danger• Airy • Child sounds e.g.

nursery rhymes • Slow then fast pace • Low sounds

• ( drum beating)

Diegetic

• Snow from the TV • Screech from

character • Airy randomness • Childs swing that

sounds isolated (only one)

• Children laughing that sounds echoic-(ghostly)

• Black and white

• Some bits of it light

• Some bits of it dark

• Slow motion • Fast forward • Rewind

• The transitions used were:

• Wipe• Flash • Straight cuts • Fade in • Fade out

• Slow pace of character walking at the beginning

• 20 second cut while character is walking

• Fast zoom when she opens the door

• With a cut cut cut at the end

Images

• Water with the blood • Tree • Chairs

Gives the audience details of the puzzle

Gives the audience representation- young blonde white girl, school girl, venerable.

Colours:

Black

White

Grey

Blue

Cold & airy

Low key