Intro Analysis - The Woman in Black (2012)

Intro Analysis - The Woman in Black (2012)

The Woman in Black opens with an eerie and unsettling tone, caused by the lack of diegetic sound and a simple non-diegetic score.

Close-up shots are used to block the audiences view and limit what they can see, it helps make the audience feel vulnerable because they don't have a peripheral view of their surroundings.

The non-diegetic score which is simplistic and slow, gives the scene a sense of mystery and prompts the audience to expect something sinister and dramatic.

A medium long shot is used when the girls turn their heads towards whatever is behind the camera, the shot is used to focus on the three children in the centre of the shot and shows that they are vulnerable from the use of high camera angles looking down on them. The children are looking past the camera which makes the audience feel like something is behind them, unknowing of what is behind the camera keeps the scene tense through the use of an enigma.

When the girls turn to face the windows a new shot is used for dramatic pacing, the next shot slowly zooms in on the windows highlighting their significance in the scene.

As they are standing up many shots are used in a short amount of time to signify the importance of the event.

The mise-en-scene with a playful tone shifts to a more sinister tone as they walk towards the window, unaware of the toys that they were transfixed by moments before, close-up shots of the toys being crushed shows the extent to which the children are being controlled.

The children all approach the windows and grab the handles in unison, this creates an abnormal feel to their movement and tells us that they are being controlled by whoever they were looking at.

An extreme close-up shot is used on the handle when the girl opens the window which is a match-on-action shot, highlighting a significant point

Once they jump there is a pause and the music stops, leaving only the diegetic sound of the mother screaming as the camera pans out revealing the Woman in Black.