The document discusses different shots and techniques used in a horror film opening scene. It describes shots from behind the protagonist to imply being followed, shots from the antagonist's point of view to show it has been stalking the protagonist, and a shot of a door handle moving on its own as the first sign of the antagonist's movement. Later shots show the protagonist with blood on his hands trying to grasp onto life, and jump cuts are used to increase tension by showing the antagonist's face appearing and disappearing. The opening scene ends with the protagonist dead on the bathroom floor with his face shrouded, removing his facial expression and any insight into how he died.

1. How did you attract/address
your target audience?

2. Universal Introduction
• The Universal introduction was extremely useful for us to
open with, as it shows that our production is big and that will
also allow us to draw more people to the film, as if they can
see that it was produced by a company as big as Universal
then they will know it will be worth watching. The world
spinning round into shot shows that we want our production
to be aimed worldwide, with the famous sound in the
background that everybody knows, showing that in time we
would aim to be a well known franchise in the horror market.

3. Behind the Protagonist
Shot from behind the protagonist to show that they are
entering into something that they will come to regret, as it
shows the house, eluding in its sheer presence at the
opening of the scene. This shot from behind also
implicates that the protagonist is being watched or
followed by something; the antagonist. The way in which
the scene is shot in an ordinary sort of area draws the
point to the audience that this could easily happen to
them to.

4. Antagonist POV
The first view in the eyes of the antagonist is captured as it
mimics the same route taken towards the door as the
protagonist’s. This highlights that the antagonist has been
following the protagonist and watching him over time.
Knowing this is quite creepy and it brings stalker like
qualities to the antagonist’s portrait.

5. First Signs of the Antagonist’s
Movement
The shot of the door handle moving downwards with
nobody there symbolises the first signs of the antagonist
within the production. This fits in with the one of the key
constituents for psychological in which things seem to
move by themselves. This also adds to the theme of
mystery as you know that something has opened the door,
but you don’t know what exactly it is that has done so.

6. Protagonist Close-Up
The first instance of a proper close up the protagonist
shows the lack of awareness that the character has in
terms of his impending doom. The character is shaving,
symbolising that his life is slowly about to fall apart, strand
by strand. The character is not centrally composed on the
screen as to create significance towards the door which
shares the same amount of limelight as him. This also
connotes from an early stage that the antagonist is behind
that door waiting for its moment.

7. Antagonist POV 2
This second POV from the antagonist creates the feeling
that it is looking down at the door handle, again with the
representation of an object’s importance in the scene. The
door handle also appears to sparkle with the use of lighting,
again signifying its importance to the antagonist as a way of
passage to its victim that it is so clearly desperate to seek
revenge in.

8. Blood Has Been Drawn
This shot shows the hands covered in blood and it’s as if it
seems to be coming from the tap. The focus and the
zooming in on the blood emphasises the amount of blood
on the protagonist’s hands and adds to the typical horror
genre ideologies that the usage of blood entails. The blood
sits in the hands, symbolising that the protagonist is trying
to cling or grasp onto his remaining life. It also shows that
the male character has lesser dominance compared to the
evil of the antagonist.

9. Jump Cuts
In the next couple of shots are jump cuts, which increase the
pace of the tension by showing the simultaneous dominance of
the antagonist’s face appearing and disappearing again. This
also connotes its otherworldly powers as it has the ability to
make itself seen and then unseen again.

10. Protagonist’s Emotion Through Facial
Expression
As you can see at the end of the opening scene the
protagonist lies dead and lifeless on the bathroom floor. His
face is shrouded in black. This removes his facial expression,
meaning that his emotion of death cannot be seen. This adds
to the mystery behind the antagonist’s killing of the
protagonist and disallows any further insight into the events
that have taken place.