1. THE
RING

2. The films starts off with the two girls on a bed talking.
They appear very bored, and this creates the element
that something more exciting will happen. The mise-
en-scene shows a typical girls bedroom from the pink
lamp and girly objects lying around. We can hear a
fuzzy noise of a TV in the beginning followed by the
noise of a TV show.

3. The girls begin to talk about a tape that kills people in
seven days after you’ve watched it. There is still pretty
much silence in the background apart from the weather
we hear outside. Suddenly she pretends to choke, and
this tricks the audience in thinking that she’ll die when
really her and her friend are just messing around, which
could foreshadow a real death later on.

4. As the girls laugh, a phone begins to ring, and they
stop instantly. They look at the clock which is exactly
10:00 and we can hear the ticking of it. This builds
suspense and shows how the element of time is used
throughout the rest of the film with the idea of dying
after 7 days.

5. The girl stops joking around and we can see this
terrified expression on her face as she looks up to her
friend. From how the camera angle is facing down on
her from a high shot, it also shows that she is
probably going to be the victim as the audience are
forced to look down on her.

6. The suspense builds here as the phone rings and the
two girls stare at it. It makes us believe that the
person who is calling isn’t a friendly person who
would normally ring. We can see now fully how the
two girls are dressed, and that they are just two
school girls, which makes them appear innocent and
young, yet naïve to different things in the world.

7. At this point in the opening, the camera sits in a
position focusing on where the girl is and what is
behind her. From the angle it is facing, it gives the
audience the impression that there is going to be
something behind her when the refrigerator door
closes, bringing in yet another jump scare.

8. She is just about to drink out of her glass but suddenly
A TV screen sees on, from where we hear a TV fuzzing
noise and the lit up screen in the reflection of the
window. She stops in her tracks and slowly looks
around, with a close up on her face to build the
tension of something strange happening.

9. We see the remote is on a pillow, and so her friend
couldn’t have turned on the TV seeing as she is
upstairs. This makes her confused and leaves the
audience in suspicion of what turned on the TV. She
stares at it, heavily breathing, as it turns itself on
again, showing that she’s getting scared and
frustrated.

10. The fridge door also then opens by itself, showing that it’s
definitely not her friend doing this. Some eerie music
then starts playing very subtly, showing that something
will make the audience scared all of a sudden. The
camera looking down the stairs at the girl shows there is
something more in power than her upstairs and she is
now weak and helpless, especially as its only her and her
friend in the house, with no other help.

11. The water on the floor is very mysterious, and there is
no sign of her friend anywhere. The camera focuses
on how slowly and carefully she steps, conveying that
she is very wary of what is in her room. The light
coming from her room is also like the TV in the living
room when it randomly turned on and was fuzzing.

12. The girl walks into the room and sees the TV with the ‘video’
playing. We hear a high pitched screeching and the camera very
quickly zooms into her face showing this very scary expression.
This is very scary for the audience seeing as it is very fast paced
and it is hard to tell what has happened to her friend and also if
this has killed the girl. The screen then cuts to this fuzzing
display, showing that there is no more content on the video. This
adds the mystery that the video plays and stops when it wants
and it somehow manages to kill the girls.