Analysis of The Woman In Black (thriller/horror)

Below show some snap shots from The Woman In Black. I'm analysing the opening to help me get ideas and see what is appropriate in this type of film to help me produce the opening of a thriller.This is the first snapshot that you see in the film. By using a close up it allows the audience to see clearly what the camera is focusing on. As well as this, the lighting is very bright and clear allowing a very clear view which makes it easy for the audience to watch. This is appropriate for the film as it represents the time of day in the film (mid day). Furthermore, even though a lot of horror films like using dark lighting, it creates an eary and quite sinister setting which in some cases makes the film even more scary. 

The film uses parallel sound in the opening. It does this because the image is being played in slight slow motion. This matches the sound as they play a slow and childlike song thus being parallel and adding to the sinister affect that is created

This camera angle helps to show the location. It does so because you are able to see that the girls are playing in a sort of house and in particular a bedroom. Furthermore, from this image you can see the time period in which this film may be set as you can see the props used (very old fashioned toys with no electronics) and the costume that is worn (all of the children have dresses on that suggest it is set in the past).

This part of the opening breaks the fourth wall between the film and the audience. It does this because the girls are seen to look I to the camera and it's made to look as if they are looking at you or something that is behind us. This helps to show the genre as the audience is scared to see what they are looking at and so it fits in with the horror/thriller style of film.

After the film breaks the fourth wall, the film starts to turn quite dark and more scary. This is shown in this image as you can see that the girl steps on and breaks one of her toys. This contrasts with before because before this, the children are very delicate with their toys.

This snapshot suggests that these three girls are not particularly the main characters in this film. It does so because it shows them dying which means that they have no further involvement in the film. Because of this, it then draws our attention to the last character shown in the opening of The Woman in Black:

This image creates a sense of mystery towards this character because we are unable to see her face and it only shows us a small area of her. Because this woman is in black it suggests that this woman is a main character as the title of the film is of course The Woman In Black.