Opening sequence analysis 1 (conventions)

The opening sequence of "The Eye" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wVU8CRESp4

In this opening sequence you are able to establish the genre is thriller horror because of the soundtrack that is used during the opening sequence. Also the non diegetic dialogue that is used, you are able to hear little children screaming and a woman crying with fear. So this creates a mood that is tense and scary.

What also helps create the mood is the camera shots and editing. At the beginning of the opening sequence it shows a light being turned on in like a dirty cellar. Then there are little children through rocks at the house. You then hear a woman crying and gets a cable wire and tieing a knot, she then get a chair and ties the cable wire to a pipe. Then there is a close up of a window then a shot reverse shot of her feet on the chair and a shot reverse shot back to the window and thern a extreme close up of her eye and it show that she has fear in her eyes. When she is about to hang herself a monster attacks her and shes hung herself. And the chair is thrown across the room.

The narrative is established when the there are shots and close ups of the witch and that she is able to see monsters. It then transitions into the titles and then it cuts to a blind woman giving the audience background information about herself. From these transitions it makes the audience try and infer that there is some kind of connetion. And because the blind woman is getting surgery the audience can infer that the doner for her eys surgery was the witch that was shown in the beginning.

The first charcater that is introduced is the witch that sees the monster, she is introduce right at the beginning of the clip by showing she his scared and that she is about to hang herself. The next character that is introduced is the blind woman. so is introduced by her telling the audience how she became blind. Later she has a conversation that she is going to have surgery. After this she then is in the the hospital with bandages round her eye. From this you are able to create the engima of the film.

The engima of the film is that the blind woman has been donated the eyes of the woman thatg has just hung herself. From transitioning from the shot of the woman that has just hung herself to the blind woman the audience can infer that they would have some connection.