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1. The Six Sense.
In ‘The Six Sense’ you can hear Haunted creepy music, which almost portrays
the sound of howling wind. You can hear the sound of flute playing. Music is
slow and eerie, adding a feeling of suspenseand tension to the beginning of
the film.
Mise-en-scenehas been used this is shown in different ways, a church has
been used in the video this is quite creepy and symbolic of death, graveyards.
A white ghostfigure walking towards house - disappears. Tall houses in city
may show the differenceof the haunted and the un-haunted, the various areas
of the city and suburbs. And finally, the writing of the titles in white,
emphasising the ghost like figures.
The camera has been used in various ways, allshots fromthe opening scene
startoff in black and white. Differentshots and movements have been
included in the film for example, church from two different angles. A shorttake
of clock tower, with the clock hands not moving, symbolising that time stays
still. On clock tower, goes fromshallow to deep focus on the clock tower,
gradually gaining a focus of colour in shots taken and we also see of a house
with arches, this was taken with a pan shot. In the film opening, there is also a
slow zoomshot of an alley way, with a white ghostlike figurestanding in the
distance. This builds tension and towards the end of the scene there is a short
film take of a city street. The whole background filming may give the viewers
that the film is based in a city or around a city and all of the effects and
different shots used creates the thriller aspect.
Editing in the opening scene also help to build tension and build an idea of
what the film will be about many of the shots fade to black, there is a ‘key
hole' transition, only showing a section of the footage, keeping the audience
interested in the film and intrigued to watch on further. After the alley shot
takes place, the shot takes and fades to black, leaving the white figurewalking
towards the camera. Finally, the writing of the Titles transition fades in and
ghosteffect out.
Seven ( Se7en)

2. Fromwatching this opening I can see that, the lighting is really dark and it
occasionally changes to a dark red which contributes to the effect of the
thriller because people tend to associate dark lighting and red with danger and
fear. At one point, the camera shows a hand which has plasters on the persons
fingers, this shows that there is a good chance that the film is going to be
about violence and blood with maybean ending of death? .The writing on the
pages of the book are also hard for the audience to understand which indicates
the movie will have a distinct horror mystery to solve. The words being crossed
out in some of the pages in one of the books seems quite sinister and it adds to
the suspensebecausethe audience want to know why these certain words are
being crossed out and because the camera only shows thehand of the person
crossing the words out - the audience also want to know who is holding the
pen, they wantto see their face. There is also a part when the person holding
the pen starts to cross outa face - the audience also wantto know why the
person is doing this. The person is also smudging certain parts of the page
which leaves the audience wanting to know why they aredoing this. When this
takes place it makes members of the audience think that the main character of
the plot may suffer with a mental illness, and also may be quite childlike yet
twisted.
At the beginning of the opening scene, there is a picture of two hands, this
may create suspensebecausethe audience may want to know why somebody
has drawn this picture and becauseit is drawn with dark and dull colours, it
makes it seem slightly moresinister. There are also quite a few shadows in the
opening scene, which makes the film seem even more horrific.
There is a picture in one of the books, which is showing the back of
somebodies face and this person has something stuck in their head. The
audience may also be intrigued as to why this person has this wound, and how
it happened. On one of the pictures there is a red mark, which looks like blood
which is slightly unnerving becausethe audience doesn't know whereit has
come fromand why it is there.
The music is quite slow, but it also has drums which adds to the pace of the
sound track and adds to the suspense. Itsounds likeat the beginning, in the

3. background thereare some sound effects added into the music. it sounds like
there is a creaking noiseand the someof the drumming sounds likefootsteps.
There is also a high pitched noise in the background, which sounds likea
screaming noise.
Towards the end of the opening scene, the music seems to get slightly faster
and more sounds areadded into the background which makes the music
seems louder. This adds to the effect of the thriller, because it is adding
suspense- the audience may think that because the music is picking up pace
something is about to happen. There is a drumming sound in the background
which sounds like a faint heartbeat which is quite chilling to the audience.
In justtwo minutes, the opening scene gives the audience quite a lot of
information about the character shown, however it doesn'tgive us enough
information to know everything about the character - justenough so that the
audience wants to know more. We can see that the character is crossing out
certain words and pictures on the pages of the books and they are also
smudging someof the words in the book, however wedon't know why the
character is doing this. We also know that the character seems to have been
involved in somesortof violence becausetheir fingers havebandages around
them and the characters other hand has loads of dirt on their fingers.
However, wedon't know whatthey havedone to their hands. The opening
scene shows us whatthe character is doing however we still don't know what
the character looks like because we haven’tbeen shown their face. There are
also pictures which look like injured people, so the audience wants to know
why the character has these pictures and why the character is looking at them.
The character is also cutting up pictures of people; however, westill don't
know why they are doing this.
The audience hasn'tbeen given too much information about the film,
however, wehave been given enough to know the film is going to be about
violence because of the characters fingers, with bandages around them and
there are pictures with wounded people.
JAWS

4. The opening sceneof Jaws is chronological. In Order to the film as such. The
director can useall types of sound and shotediting at his disposalto establish
genre or character, involvethe audience or set a mood. This scene fromJaws is
a particularly effective example.
The opening titles begin with a waterproof camera lurking underneath the
water, almost trying to take on the personality of a shark itself. This is
complemented by the eerie and famous ‘Jaws’ theme tune, suggesting to the
audience the deceptiveness and danger of what is beneath the surfaceand
how we do not actually know what is below us when we step into water of
open streams and the sea. The famous sound is played at the beginning of the
scene and the audience are introduced to a sound which is alarming, ominous
(quite sinster and dark) and full of tension.
The scene opens on a lot of young people around a bonfirewho are engaging
in explicit, (and someillegal) activities such as drinking and drugs, and such
behaviour gives early clues that the characters may meet an unfortunateend
under the influence. Two of the characters run off together, and their
exclusion fromthe restof the group suggests to the viewer that they are of
relevance to the story line, that they may go missing together a lot more than
justthis once. Traditionally, teenagers have throughouthorror cinema been
the victims of running away together, grisly mishaps and something going
terribly wrong within the relationship, so already, as a viewer I can gain a
feeling of what will happen in the movie as the film's plot is (to an extent)
suggested.
As the boy and girl run drunkenly, the camera pans in a long shotfromleft to
right and so gives a senseof setting and time for the viewer to understand an
analysethe relationship between the characters. Match shots and shot-
reverse-shothavebeen used to show an attraction and the close, intimate
relationship between the male and female character.
The scene is set at dusk so there is a dim lighting, which makes the tone darker
and therefore moremysterious, as well meaning the characters are
silhouetted; faceless figures, dark figures at the opening of the film allow the
viewer to imagine that they too might be personified by that character, and in
that position, and so the film’s danger seems moreimmediate and frightening.

5. As the girls swimin the sea, the camera shows her captured with an extreme
long shot, as sheappears small, isolated and vulnerablein the vastexpanse of
water. However she isn’tshown in the centre of the screen, and so the off-
balance is unsettling, as it could suggestsheis not alone in the water, yet with
something quite unhuman
Much of the action is shot fromthe shark’s perspectivein a widelong shot,
and so builds up tension by tracking the movement of the girl, thus reinforcing
the idea of the evil beneath. At this point the viewer is not entirely surewhat
the predator is, but is definitely awareof its presenceas a threat, and the
tension grows as the we wait for the known and quite attack. There is barely
any diegetic sound apartfromthe dialogue of characters. The non-diegetic
music builds up to the attack, and it is filmed in a mid-shotof the girl – still
without the shark revealing itself – thrashing around on the surfaceof the
water, and the viewer experiences up close her terror, (whereweare now in
our seats waiting to see what happens) and the scene becomes altogether
more frightening. At this point, the style of camera becomes increasingly
handheld, to show urgency in the attack and shatter the idea of any peace or
safety. After the attack there is only silence, and this stillness represents death.
Cross-cutediting suggests thatboy asleep on the beach might be able to save
the girl. This is unknown to the viewers In this way the pace is also contrasted
by frantic, shortand sharp shots of the girl as sheis being attacked, while in
contrastthe sleeping boy is shown in calm, lingering and static shots.
To conclude, the director is able to establish Jaws in the
thriller/mystery/horror genre, and depict the danger and fear the characters
feel, whilst involving the audience through an increased build-up of tension.
Inception
In the opening scene of the film Inception we are presented with a man dressed in casual
clothing being washed up on the beach. As this takes place, the music comes to a sudden
stop where there is a hyperbolic sound (exaggerated sound) of waves clashing against rocks
on the beach, this helps to set the scene and this is where the audience begin to know that
the film is set in the present day. Here is where an eyeline match is used to show the

6. protagonist looking in the direction of the children, figments of his imagination. The man
then see's to children, a special effect is used here to make the children appear like a dream
or a vision. As if he is hallucinating. The man is then taken to a very rich looking building
filled with individuals dressed much more smart and formal than himself. This represents
elements of Mise En Scene as it portraying this very unique and prestigious setting in the
film. This lets the audience know that the people inside are very rich and obtain the very
'fancy' lifestyle. This therefore creates a big contrast between the man who has been
washed up onto the beach. Here is when the audience become more intrigued with the film
and want to watch on further, as you want to find out when the man was washed up, why
he was on the beach and overall what he was meant to be doing, as he looks very confuse.
To open the scene a close up shot is used to show his expressions, and then a jump cut has
been used to switch to the main building, once again. More close ups are used on both of
what appear to be the main character(s) to show looks of confusion and nerves and then
distress and sorrow.
Continuing another jump cut is used to change to what looks to be the same building but
the man who was washed up on the beach is now dressed more formally, like the ‘richer’
and more ‘wealthy’ people from before. This switch of identity through the clothes he is
wearing creates a sense of mystery for the audience, which continues to draw them into the
film even more, to find out what has just happened to make the man change character. A
lot of match cuts from character to character are used in the clip to ensure the audience
that these will be the main characters of the filmand are going to play an important role.
However there is not a lot of sound to comment on in the opening scene of this film, except
the attention to detail, for example the focus on the sounds of the waves crashing against
the rocks on the beach. Overall I believe the opening scene to the filmInception is as
effective as it uses a range of Editing, Mise En Scene, Camera shots and sounds to create this
introduction of mystery, this sense of unusualness all to make up the well-known Thriller
opening, full of chaos and suspense.
BLACK SWAN
The opening scene for ‘Black Swan’ is shown with a stick of chalk being dragged and
pressed across a large sheet , trying to replicate the fluency of the ballet dance (through the
movement of the chalk), the movement is soft and elegant with a somewhat deep meaning.
The chalk is trying to show that gracefully, big movements can be a success (this collides
with the Ballet dance, elegant, smooth and a success if done correct). However, the music
picks up the pace and building tension and making the viewer want to watch more of the
film. We also see this frustration through the breaking and cracking of the heavy black chalk
on the paper. The outcome of the chalk on the paper is broken and ragged yet some parts
look quite smooth, this could relate to the Black Swans lifestyle.

7. The titles look as if they are fading away from the screen, however it looks a bit more
stronger than ‘mysterious’, they look as if they are in a scurry to get away as they fade quite
quickly. Typography within the titles and the opening scene is presented with an elegant
font, which is black in colour and is presented in the regular format rather than using a bold
or italic alternative as it is seen as more simplistic and elegant, once again relating to the
focus of the film, Ballet. With a dark and simplistic hidden meaning.
The colours used in opening are light and subtle cream/beige and black the most which
makes it seem as though a sepia effect filter has been added to make it seemolder
fashioned, with a dark meaning. The chalk is being pressed and moved around to try and
replicate the fluent structural movement of the ballet dance and has been presented
through the movement of the chalk showing that it gracefully journeys across the room.
Doing so the music picks up the pace and becomes quicker in tempo to create the tension of
not being the part that was aimed for in the ballet. We also see this frustration through the
breaking and cracking of the black chalk effects.
The titles seem to scurry away from the screen in something more mysterious than just
fading away this allows the viewer to see that there is more to what has been seen in the
opening sequence. That there is hidden meaning and you may have to look closely to gain
an idea of the films backing story. Also the sepia affect makes it seemold fashioned and the
each sequence of text fades to black at the end.
Continuing, a bold black font has been used is used in the regular form rather than using a
bold or italic alternative because it is seen as more simplistic and elegant much like ballet
which is the main focus of the film.
By Cleo Ann Coogan