The document provides an analysis of the opening sequences of the films "The Ring" and "Seven". It discusses various film techniques used in the openings such as music, camera shots, font, and editing. For "The Ring", it examines the creepy music, jittery font, close-up shots used to build suspense and emotion. While for "Seven", it analyzes the suspenseful music, fast pacing, close-up shots, and overlapping transitions used to hint at the characters and set the thriller genre.

1. By Ursula Otieno

3. » The main genre of the film the ring is horror
Killer
Conventions of
The opening
Ghost/paranormal
life sequence and
how it relates
Death
to horror
Creepy music
off key

4. » The font is not as neat or
formal, looks similar to hand
writing of a child
» The O’s are in the righting
seconds after other righting
has faded to emphasise the
ring .
» The animation of the font is
jumpy and flashy also
emphasising trembling and
fear.

5. » There's a close-up of the girls
hand as she opens the door.
» Also a close up shot of the ladies
face just before she touches the
door knob.
The close up shots is used to
emotion in her face and show
audience the girl is scared and
also create suspense.

6. » There is a low shot of her feet
as she steps into the puddle of
water

7. » Zoom is one of the movements used
when the girl opens the door. The
zoom is used also to excite and scare
the audience with its fast pace.

8. » Non-diagetic sounds
• Music sounds like child nursery rhymes which hints
the audience movie is about a child
• Its slow pace to create suspenseful tone
• It then builds pace and becomes more fast and
thrilling , its a high pitch tone (relating to screaming)
» Diagetic
• static sounds (snow)
• Sounds of a swing which also hints movie relates to child
• Sound of child laughing which echo's to sound ghostly
and haunting also hints film has something to do with
haunting.

9. » When blood shown in glass of water it
starts off normal pace then is slowed down
it also shows the blood in glass it being
reversed

10. » Connotation
• Chair
• water
» Denotation
• The chair in the open sequence is floating by itself which links
to paranormal life also hinting the movie is going to be about
ghost
• The water is shown being poured in the opening sequence
and hints the film has something to do with death by water

11. » The opening sequence uses colours like
black and blue showing and representing
cold and danger.

13. » The main genre of the film seven is thriller
» It meets the conventions because
Music with
suspenseful
tone
Fast pace Conventions
of The Character
editing
which is
hiding
opening identity
jumpy
sequence
unidentified
person

14. » The font looks like hand righting of an
adult, also it blinks and flashes which
emphases fear.

15. » The camera shots are mainly close-ups and extreme close-ups to give
the viewer bits of information.
» There are close-ups of pictures and books and also a unidentified
person writing things down which suggest they may be creating
something also that the person has knowledge of things since they is
researching things .

16. » The opening sequence uses canted angles which
appears as if someone where looking over the
characters shoulder also seems unusual.

17. » The camera movement they use is tracking .
» It reveals how many books the character has
showing the character has researched or is
researching into what they are doing

18. » Non-diagetic
• Slow pace music to create suspenseful
tone
» Diagetic
• There are scratches of records being
played

19. » They use many transitions
such as overlapping, fade in,
fade out.
This is overlapping transition
as show in the picture one
scene is overlapping the other.