Opening Sequence Analysis

By Ursula Otieno

The Ring

Genre of Opening Sequence

» The main genre of the film the ring is horror

Conventions of The opening

sequence and how it relates to

horror

Killer

Death

Creepy music off key

Ghost/paranormal life

Fonts/Titles

» 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.

Camera Shots

» 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.

Camera Angles

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

Camera Movement

» 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.

Sound

» 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.

Special Effects

» 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

Images

» 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

Mise-En-Scene

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

Se7en

Genre of Opening Sequence

» The main genre of the film seven is thriller » It meets the conventions because

Conventions of The

opening sequence

Music with suspenseful

tone

Character hiding

identity

unidentified person

Fast pace editing

which is jumpy

Fonts/Titles

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

Camera Shots

» 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 .

Camera Angles

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

Camera Movement

» 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

Sound

» Non-diagetic• Slow pace music to create suspenseful

tone

» Diagetic • There are scratches of records being

played

Transitions

» 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.