In the beginning of the opening sequence slow paced
editing is used to show that everything is stable in the home and there’s no
problems because it seemed like someone dialled the wrong the number. The women
is also going to watch a movie, so everything seemed calm which was supported
by the fact that she wanted to watch a movie. On screen sound is used in the
beginning of the scene when the damsel in distress is talking to man on the
phone and the on-screen sound is the voice of the man. Talking on the phone is
an everyday activity, so the atmosphere is non-threatening this is conventional
to s thriller opening because the beginning tends to be very non-threatening
and safe. A close-up is also used in order to show her facial expression when
she is on the phone and she has a flirtatious look when she is talking as she
initially feels comfortable with talking to him. Also the iconography in this
scene is the phone as that is the significant object that provides the audience
with the understanding that all the torture that the damsel in distress is
going to receive is going to be from the antagonist. All this is conventional
to a thriller opening because thriller films like to often show a calm
atmosphere in the beginning of the movie in order to shock the audience when
they see what is going to happen next.
As the scene develops things start going a bit out of
hand as the man keeps repeatedly calling the women and putting on a creepy
voice. The sound that is significant in this section is the non-diegetic sound
of the music as the music suddenly goes loud when the women starts panicking
this is conventional to a thriller opening because the sound normally starts
being louder and creepier when something bad is happening in the scene. The
editing used in this section is fast paced in order to show that a lot of
things are happening at the same time, this is done often in thriller opening
sequences because they want the audience to get scared. In this section low key
lighting is used in order to show something bad is going to happen because the
low key lighting shows darkness. This is used a lot in thriller opening
sequences because something bad always happens in thriller movies.
In the next bit things start going downhill because the
man won’t stop calling, the women is scared to death and the boyfriend has been
tied up by the man somehow this is where the scene starts going into the
disequilibrium because everything is chaos right now. In this section a close-up
is used in order to show the facial expression of the women as she has a scared
face, at the same time you could say that it is a reaction shot as well. Slow
paced editing is used when the women is sitting next to the TV talking on the
phone, this is because they want to emphasise the moment because she is sitting
there scared and were wondering what is going to happen to her so they want to
make it slow in order to keep us waiting and make us more anxious. The one
important iconography used in this section is the blue TV in the dark room.
This TV is important because it is ironic because this type of things happen in
movies and she was just going to watch a movie so it’s ironic that it happens
to her. All of this has been conventional to a thriller opening sequence
because stuff like slow paced editing to emphasise moments and close ups to
show facial expressions happen a lot in thriller openings.
Near the end of the scene things are getting worse
because his boyfriend has been killed by the man so now she has no hope of
anyone saving her. In this section a long shot was used in order to show the
body language of the women as she was trembling and crying this makes the
audience feel pity for the character as she has no hope of surviving. Slow
paced editing was used in this scene in order to slow down the women’s last
moments as she is the next victim for the man and they tried to make her death
as slow as possible in order for us to have a psychological effect of sadness
for the character.
In conclusion I have found this scene to be a very
conventional scene because it goes with nearly all of the conventions of a
thriller film such as low key lighting, both fast paced and slow paced editing
used at appropriate times, important iconography such as the phone she uses to
talk to the man and diegetic and Non-diegetic sound such as scary music. So
this scene is very conventional to thriller opening scenes
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