The document analyzes and summarizes techniques used in the opening scene of the film "The Six Sense". It discusses three main aspects: 1) The music and sound effects create an eerie, suspenseful atmosphere through slow, haunted sounds. 2) Mise-en-scene uses symbolic locations and imagery like a church and white ghosts to set a creepy, haunted tone. 3) Cinematography employs various shots, angles, and camera movements like black-and-white footage, pans, zooms and fades to build tension and mystery.

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.
By: Cleo Ann Coogan