opening credits in woman in black

1. WOMAN IN BLACK –
SOUND
Kaitlin Lodge

2. In the opening scene the ambient sound is the sound bridge of creepy
music, which immediately creates the scene and makes the audience
feel on edge. The high pitched tapping is eerie and unnatralistic which
takes away the sense of children playing and having fun as it draws
your attention to the eerie music.

3. Although the score is sound bridged the whole way through, the first
diegetic noise is a cup smashing which creates affect on the viewer to
make them feel startled and forebodes something bad which is going
to happen. Moreover the noise of the cup smashing is louder in
comparison to the music, this makes the viewer feel connected like
they are actually there in the scene.

4. The next diegetic sound which creates affect is the girls screaming, by
this time the score is coming to a end so the screaming over powers
the music playing, the score is lower than the diegetic sound with a
deep low pitch, juxtaposing to the screaming which is high pitched
and higher volume. It is asynchronous to the clip.

5. The background music is introduced at the beginning and sound
bridged the whole way through, the music is a creepy fun faire theme
tune, as fairground music is meant to be happy and fun, this is clearly
the binary opposite.

6. The diegetic voice at the end is a woman/mother screaming ‘my baby’
as the three girls jump out the window, this is mysterious and doesn’t
give too much away so it makes viewers want to carry on watching as
the women is asynchronous to the camera as she is completely
anonymous.