There are many filming and editing techniques used to signify the theme horror in the opening of the film. Firstly, throughout the opening, there's low key lighting used to create an intimate mysterious atmosphere. The opening starts of with the mysterious yet frightening doll which sets of the enigma code immediately to the audience. The doll is shot in a close up shot positioned on the left side of the camera, blurring out the background allowing the audience to focus on the close up. The close up of the doll creates suspense, as the audience have no clue and it makes them impatient to know the significance of the doll. The low key lighting is continued throughout the opening, to continue the mysterious atmosphere. We then have a long shot of the characters, a back view and front, creating a shot reverse shot, this suture was used effectively as its a horror movie, the back view of the characters, as they are introduced mysteriously. The sound used in the opening really set the atmosphere, as they were diegetic sounds, the music really made the audience dive into the scene, and get them engaged.
The opening of this film focuses on certain filming techniques repetitively. We have an extreme long shot from the beginning to the end of this scene, which allows the audience to visualise what's going on in the scene. We have the use of high key lighting, allowing the main characters who have been hung to stand out. There is use of a tracking shot of the characters been hung up, it shows how they are being slowly taken to the top of the tree, creating a very vivid image for the audience. The enigma code is created by the camera work, as the person who is pulling the rope is not to be seen, creating a mysterious atmosphere, and making the audience confused and frightened. The sound in the opening is diegetic sounds, making it believable as we can hear the rope being pulled up, however we hear nothing from the characters which again creates an enigma code, and creates suspense and questions in the mind of the audience to why the director may
have done this.
The sound used in this sequence is parallel sound as it is linked to what the audience are watching as for instance as the start as we see thunder signs popping up on the brick wall we can also hear thunder with it which causes as electric vibe each time something comesto the screen such as the picture of each character comes in such a way. The lighting used in this opening sequence is quite dull and dramatic as it has dark colours to represent the powers that each character has. As for intense the first few seconds showing the black and white brick wall shows that it is connoting the special powers. They have used both high key lighting and low key lighting. They have used high key lighting so that it makes the sequence quite homogeneous and free from dark shadows. Also they have used low key lighting because that lighting accentuates the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector may illuminate the shadow areas to control contrast. At the beginning of the opening sequence there is a fading of thunder signs coming on the screen then the black and white wall fades out to the next scene and then when the characters are shown the wipe into the screen one by one presenting themselves in a unique way.
This scene shows a establishing shot where it shows all the main characters in one shot letting the audience to analyse and see them all at once. From the characters point of the view and from their eye it takes the scene into the future where something has occurred and this is all filmed in a fast motion which gives the affect of the audience getting to see many different things at once and their is also a freeze frame shot of all the characters being frozen. The drama then ends with a fighting scene which shows all the characters slowly and the audience is able to visualize that all of them look terrified and scared which creates enigma. The director uses many different types of media angles and shots to represent the character and from this the audience can get to see the characters in a more and better way. This clip is a short clip of pretty little liers that i will be analyzing. Firstly the director has used a establishing shot also known as a wide shot to introduce the 4 characters which will be part in the series and in this shot we are able to see all four characters together letting the audience be able to visualize each character and see what they are wearing. The camera then focus upon one character trying to introduce her Separately with a close-up and from this the audience is able to see her facial expressions and from her facial expressions and the way she is talking the audience can connote she might be a mean character.
The lighting in the opening scene is dark but a few lights on giving it the romantic atmosphere towards the scene. There is a hint of Chiaroscuro being used as its light and dark also backing up the point of it being romantic in a case. There is top lighting used on the actor and actress at the top of a railing showing that they are both the main people to be focusing on and to show their 'love' in their reactions as it focuses on the features of people making them look 'glamorous'. The sound in this are both diegetic and non-diegetic. The non-diegetic part is the romantic music in the background which also still plays when the two actors are speaking to each other. The diegetic sound is the people in the background walking and the outside which is the rain, trains etc. It also uses sound bridges from the actress from outside walking into the train station towards which is the footsteps from outside coming inside too.This opening scene uses a lot of long shots, medium shots and a few close up shots. The long shots are from the girls coming out of the taxi walking into the train station. The medium shots are then towards the actor and actress that are on the railing. The close up shots are used to emphasise the reactions on the actors and actresses face - reaction of him leaving.
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