The opening scene shows a woman being tortured in a white room, screaming and crying while tied to a bed. It then jumps to a group of tourists traveling by coach in Brazil, shown as vulnerable from high camera angles. The coach driver is going too fast while the characters joke, until they swerve and crash near a cliff edge. Everyone escapes from the crashing coach but it rolls off the mountain, creating tension for the audience worried about the characters and innocent baby inside.

1. Black Water
This film started with the name of the film written blurry with a scary song at the
background. The writing was blurry so that it fitted in with the water being blurry. It
also may have been done in this to make the audience want to know what its called
Black Water and why it might of been done blurry. From this straight away we can
understand that it is a scary horror movie. This is because when something is blurry
its hidden and its hard to be read , so it would show that there is something different ,
blurry about the film. In the corner of the screen there is little writing in white
showing that it is a real story. This would make the audience think about how it
happened in real life and it would make them imagine themselves in the same
situation.
There is a family in a jungle area and they are going back from the country. They
get into there car and starts the journey. The zooming out and panning of the car can
show that they are being followed and that there is going to be something happening
to them. This fits in with the genre because in most horror films when the characters
are in a cool safe environment and there is panning/following then something wrong
is expected. When the names of the actors come on the screen there are pictures from
the film. They have photos of there holiday and them having fun. A picture that made
me think was the picture of them pretending to kill each other. This is something
ordinary, a joke between friends and people but it makes it look is something wrapped
around man joking about death. This at the beginning makes the audience think
extraordinary. There of deaths in the film and they would start to create there own
ideas in there heads. They would also want to know what happens next so they will
carry on watching the film , they would be drawn to it. The movie being a thriller
created a path for the audience and made them think when they saw the picture. The
girl wants to go to a crocodile area for the last time. They have a map showing that
they don’t know the area much. This is expected in horror films as well. Once a
character looks lost something bad always happens. There is always the unknown.
The map can be symbolic it can show dependence and Vulnerability . It can show
dependence. The camera zooms to the map to show that they rely on that and that they
will be lost without it. Everything is normal in this scene there is nothing wrong with
the opening.
It shows a happy families journey back home during the ten minutes. They go to
a pub like most British people and talk about routines situations. When they go to the
crocodile area then tension is created. In the scene there is a man holding food down
to a crocodile and it shows the crocodile eating it within seconds. This is important
because there is a zoom to the crocodiles mouth showing that it has power and that
can happen to the visitors as well. The music was also creating tension to the audience
but not to the characters. It creates anxiety and awareness that something bad is likely
to happen. They were there having fun enjoying themselves. There were zooms and
shots of people in the crocodile place of children and happy families. This is done to
show that they are innocent and unaware of the things that is going to happen to them.
It is done to make the audience feel sympathetic for them. This could have been done
to once again show innocence and that they are not aware of what is waiting for them.
It may indicate the sense of danger. It also can indicate the problems they can be
exposed to.

2. An American Haunting
The opening scene of this movie was different to the other two films I watched. It
started in a forest during the winter time. The film was set in the olden times and was
based on a curse. The camera angles in the first scene showed a girl running home
with something following her which was not scene. The camera zoomed in to the girl
when she fell over to show her innocence.
The camera moved around really quickly to create suspense and the camera was
representing the girl’s eyes showing her confusion and her feelings. The young girl is
out of breath when she gets home. The clock ticking can show the time for to escape
is going down maybe getting closer to her death. During the opening seen we see that
it was a dream. The girl wakes up screaming and hugs the mother. She wrapped her
hands around her knees to show that she is scared and the camera shows this shot to
show her feelings once again. The mother is an alcoholic she sits down and has a
glass of alcohol in her hand. In this scene the camera had the mother in shot as well as
the photo of the family. This can show that they had a problem because of her
drinking, or that the mother is upset about the situation something that she cannot
solve and finds the only way in drinking. The mother has a letter in her hand and the
rest of the film carries on in a forest from the past. So they skip from the present back
to the past. There is two lovers in a forest area and we can see them joking around.
The camera in this scene then zooms in to a house slowly showing the whole family
and the Mise on scene.
The props and clothing shows that it was a long time ago and that people still
believed in witches and curses. The important thing in this scene was that it was
Christmas time showing that they were religious. The scene starts with a zoom in the
fireplace. The sound of the fire burning can show that it’s called and can be done to
show relaxation. Then this is disturbed by a crying noise. When the mother and father
walks up the stairs the noise carries on they whisper to each other to create tension
they look around the house. There footsteps are herd and the creaking noise creates
suspicion as well.

3. Paradise Lost
The start of in the film was different to the other two films because it had a bit where
there was a woman lying in a white room crying tied on bed. It is similar with the
other films as well because she is also in danger. She is screaming and there is zooms
to her eye. This was done to show the reflection of the person or creature torturing
her. It’s a really bloody scene and the torture is shown step by step to show what the
woman is being through. This is done so that the audience would feel sorry for the
woman. Then it jumps to a group of tourist in Brazil. This makes the audience want to
know what happened next and why the woman is in that situation and who that person
is.
The scene being shown in Brazil is clear because of the Brazilian song at the
background. It’s a happy song and they are travailing in a coach around Brazil. The
driver is not concentrating on his driving and he is really fast. There is a zoom in to
the baby drinking milk in this scene showing her purity showing that she is not aware
of anything. The characters are shown vulnerable by the camera angles. When the
characters are shown from an birds eye view or a high angle then they seem smaller
and weaker. It is a frightening scene but there is comedy in it as well. The main
character which is a man is scared and tells the driver to slow down and the girls are
not interested in his opinion and they joke and laugh about it. When the coach
whizzes pass a motorbike then the music changes from happy to a song that creates
pressure and implies that there is going to be something wrong. Straight after this they
have an accident and the coach slides to the edge of the mountain. It is stuck and the
camera zooms around the wheel showing that they are in danger. There is a 180 and
360 angle in this scene showing everyone running around trying to get out the coach
screaming and yelling. Loud noises , yells and needing help is found in all horror
films it is a convention to horror films.
When everyone escapes from the coach then the coach rolls of the mountain, this
created tension to the audience because they were worrying about the character s in
the coach and the innocent baby with the mother. The effect on the viewers by this
shot is that they want her to save her baby and want to know that the innocent baby is
safe. The shot of the coach was from a high angle and it was shown from the
characters eyes as if it was them looking down to the coach. This could have been
done for the audience to feel like they were a part of them as well.