- Zooming out after children have died showing whats left in the room and showing a woman standing there.
- Close up of the girls happy faces
- Extreme close up of china dolls smashing
- Camera follows the cup dropping from hand down to it smashing
Mise en scene:
- Innocent children playing
- Creepy looking china dolls
- Girls all in sync; turning heads, walking towards windows
- Junping out of windows,
- Slow walking creates drama and anticipation
- Old fashioned clothing and toys
Editing:
- Colours are very dull
- Old fashioned lighting
- As camera pulls away, the screen goes white signalling the wnd of the opening
Sounds:
- Dramatic piano music (non-diegtic)
- Mother screaming
- Crashing of cups/china dolls head
- Distant diegtic sounds of the china cups being played with
- Music gets quicker when the girls look in a direction in sync
- Louder music when the girls are about to jump
- Music stops once the girls have jumped
- Can only head eerie wind
The conjuring from FernDisney
The opening to this film is a flash back- the story of how the doll Annabelle came to the women here. I hope our opening is a sort of flash back, although not a flash back to show a story, but a flash of the dolls, before all hell lets lose, mixed with the happiness of children playing and human dolls- setting the scene and making the audience feel at ease from the beginning.
The camera zooms out from a close up to the dolls face. There is a quick jump shot from the flash back to this shot- it looks as if this is now "up to date time". This camera effect works because we are seeing the doll for the first time- starting with an extreme close up is important because it creates a scary feel for the film.
The sound above the conversation between the people is daunting- as if quite crashing. This creates tension. I would like to use this idea in half of my opening, one half as nursery rhyme, the over half with the sound of running and heavy breathing and also an eerie piece of music (quietly) on top of it.
Also the conservation they are having about the doll, minus the "therapist"/ "church believers" saying there's no such thing, I think this would be a good type of narration above the scene of the person running in the forest- slow cuts of speaking- a way of explaining to our audience about the horror of the dolls that are haunting the town.
However in this film, the characters have close ups, I plan to have the person running in the forest, purely running, so their face is not seen, this will create mystery and if needed, we can use the same character as the dolls.
The mise-en-scene presents an oldish looking setting, obviously we can't re do a room/ studio do to the lack of money, however we can use our settings to create a doll house theme- someones room is flowery and child friendly, yet this is sort of ironic considering they are evil dolls- something children should be scared about.
In this film opening, it shows the mystery, not everything is explained and gaps are left open, for the later film to explain to us.
I chose this film opening to relate to our film because the main concept of this is an evil doll. I have also analysed the film opening of The Women In Black, which is in another blog post on here. This can also be related to my chosen film opening with the children playing with toys. Although thought I shouldn't do the same film twice and picked this one as well.
(Copied from Ferns blog)
Dead silence analysis: Copied from Megan's blog.
The audience are made aware from the very opening of the film with the 'Universal Pictures' title that it is to be a dark horror. The classic Universal Pictures logo has been extremely darkened, with a black background and only a few grey clouds surrounding it. It has a vignette effect surround it, making it seem old and almost like a lost tape that has been slightly distorted.
The opening to this film is a flash back- the story of how the doll Annabelle came to the women here. I hope our opening is a sort of flash back, although not a flash back to show a story, but a flash of the dolls, before all hell lets lose, mixed with the happiness of children playing and human dolls- setting the scene and making the audience feel at ease from the beginning.
The camera zooms out from a close up to the dolls face. There is a quick jump shot from the flash back to this shot- it looks as if this is now "up to date time". This camera effect works because we are seeing the doll for the first time- starting with an extreme close up is important because it creates a scary feel for the film.
The sound above the conversation between the people is daunting- as if quite crashing. This creates tension. I would like to use this idea in half of my opening, one half as nursery rhyme, the over half with the sound of running and heavy breathing and also an eerie piece of music (quietly) on top of it.
Also the conservation they are having about the doll, minus the "therapist"/ "church believers" saying there's no such thing, I think this would be a good type of narration above the scene of the person running in the forest- slow cuts of speaking- a way of explaining to our audience about the horror of the dolls that are haunting the town.
However in this film, the characters have close ups, I plan to have the person running in the forest, purely running, so their face is not seen, this will create mystery and if needed, we can use the same character as the dolls.
The mise-en-scene presents an oldish looking setting, obviously we can't re do a room/ studio do to the lack of money, however we can use our settings to create a doll house theme- someones room is flowery and child friendly, yet this is sort of ironic considering they are evil dolls- something children should be scared about.
In this film opening, it shows the mystery, not everything is explained and gaps are left open, for the later film to explain to us.
I chose this film opening to relate to our film because the main concept of this is an evil doll. I have also analysed the film opening of The Women In Black, which is in another blog post on here. This can also be related to my chosen film opening with the children playing with toys. Although thought I shouldn't do the same film twice and picked this one as well.
(Copied from Ferns blog)
Dead silence analysis: Copied from Megan's blog.
The 'lost tape' effect continues as when some facts about ventriloquists appears on the screen a tape roll sound effect plays. This too looks very dark, and the image is slightly distorted by not being perfectly centred. This furthers the 'doll' like theme and really helped to inspire our production.
However, the tape effect is suddenly shut off when the darkness on the screen is lightened with a match stick being drawn. Once this match is drawn a 'music box' box tune begins to play, this factor creates fear and tension for the audience, as typically 'music boxes' are what a child would play with this evokes fear and the sense that perhaps a childs life could be at danger.
The match lights a red candle in a close up shot and as it does so the titles begin to roll. Red evokes more fear for the audience because of the connotations that lay behind it such as danger, blood and the devil. The connotation of danger and the 'music box' tune that is playing could foreshadow the potential danger of a child thus furthering tension and fear amongst the audience.
Next we see a pair of hands at a birds eye view, frantically rummaging through sketch books, picking up pencils and drawing and writing things down - at this point the music speeds up to the style of music famously known from The Exorcist, the fact that a similar style of music is used could help to show how this too is a supernatural horror. Suddenly the title 'Dead Silence' appears on the screen, again in red, furthering the connotations of danger, blood and the devil as red is really the only colour that is used amongst the film opening. The clips of the hands rummaging are shown in really short 1-3 second shots, at all different angles - this inspired our production and how the majority of our shots are all 1-3 seconds long, creating tension and atmosphere for the audience.
After the film title is shown the short clips continue - this time more 'doll' focused, showing short clips of dolls faces and it is now made clear that the hands are also creating a doll themselves - "To Make The Perfect Doll" is clearly shown in bold black lettering. The titles that run are still in bold red, and slightly distorted referring back to the very beginning shots.
The audience see the completed doll - this is shown in a mid shot, it is extremely dark and only the highlights on the face of the doll are shown, nearly half of its face is missing. A menacing smile is clearly shown however, this creates tension and evokes fear amongst the audience by giving a doll a really human like presence.
The camera shot slowly zooms from the mid shot to a close up to the dolls eye, making the audience feel like the doll is staring at them and looking directly at them, again making it almost seem human like. The use a of a slow zoom up to its eye really creates tension and puts the audience on edge and questioning what is going to happen next? and what is the doll going to do?
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