The document provides a step outline for the opening scenes of the film Cabin In The Woods (2011). It describes each scene through timings, visual elements, sounds, camerawork, and editing. The opening begins with title credits and transitions to a scene showing two men by a coffee machine in an office. An establishing shot then shows the characters in a long, modern corridor, where they encounter a woman in a lab coat who engages them in conversation. The summary provides context and key details for each scene in the film's opening sequence.

1. Step outline for film opening of: Cabin In The Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror (cert. 15)
Description of action
Timings
Mise-en-scene
Fades from a black screen 00:00:00 –
LionsgateIdent:
into the Lionsgate
00:00:20
Cogs turning
Company ident. Fades
inside a
back to black.
keywhole of a
door, the door
opens to reveal
a red-lit sky with
the ‘Lionsgate’
across the
screen
Black Screen
00:00:21 –
Black screen.
00:00:24
Black screen with blood
00:00:25 –
On the black
stains appearing in the
00:00:58
screen a blood
shot, within the different
splatter fades
blood stains, different
through the
pictures appeared telling
black and
a story.
appears, and
grows in size. An
image is then
visible of the
blood splatter. It
shows different
folk tales. All
with one thing in
common. A
human being
slaughtered.
Screen shot turns from
00:00:59 –
The screen
Sound
The spund of cogs
turning with a
slight high-pitched
screech, and the
sound of choir
voices.
High-pitched
screech
Loud, dramatic,
Orchestral
Orchestral music is
Camerawork
Camera
moves in a
tracking
movement
through the
five different
blood
splatters
showing five
different
illustrations.
The camera
Editing
Fades too and from
a black transition
Typography
N/A
Fades to and from a
black transition
Fades from a black
transition
N/A
Pans and fades into
(from 00:00:38)
All of the text is
capitalised, with
names in a larger
font than the rest
of the text. The
style of font used
is a serif font in
dark red. Against
the dark
background, the
lettering looks as
if it is blood, but
contrasts against
the blood
splatters.
‘Enjoy a cup of

2. the folk tale art to an
ordinary coffee machine
in an office.
00:01:00
Two men are standing by
the coffee machine, one
is preparing a coffee, the
other man talking to him.
00:01:01 –
00:01:38
An establishing shot
showing where the
characters now are in the
building.
00:01:39 –
00:01:42
shows the last
folk tale
illustration. All of
a sudden, in a
split second the
shot changes
from the red and
orange colours
of the folk tale,
which almost
looks like flames
in the blood to a
blue coffee
machine.
They are in a
white kitchen
that you’d
expect to see in
an office.
very high-pitched
almost sounds like
a scream. All of a
sudden you hear
something that
sounds like a large
gust of wind.
pans down
and then
fades with the
beginning
shot of the
film, which is
a close up of
a coffee
machine.
from a blood
splatter into a blue
coffee machine
fresh coffee.’
Seen on the
coffee machine is
written in a sans
serif font making
it easy to read in
the 2 seconds of
what you see of
the machines
The sound of
backing track
music plays softly
in the background.
Cuts between
character shots
N/A
A long whitewashed modern
corridor. With
doors leading
The sound of
people talking, as
well as a woman’s
voice on a
At first we are
shown a
medium long
shot of the
two
characters
and then the
camerawork
switches
between the
two
characters
using a
medium shot.
A Long shot
of a corridor.
Cuts
N/A

3. Shows the two men
heading towards
somewhere as a woman
comes up behind them
engaging within the
conversation.
Source of Clip: Netflix
00:01:43 –
00:02:00
off into other
rooms, with
stairs heading
towards a lower
floor.
The same two
men both
wearing white
shirts walking
along the long
corridor, with a
woman
approaching
them wearing a
white lab coat.
voiceover.
Sound of people
talking.
A medium
shot is used.
Cuts
N/A