Women in black opening scene analysis

Woman in black opening scene

The opening scene in woman in black is very gloomy, and dark, there is also a lot of different camera angles. They are making the audience feel nervous, and anticipating the rest of the film.

At the start of the opening scene there is an extreme close up of a little girl pretending to tip tea into a cup and then a switch to another extreme close up of the girl giving it to the doll. As they are using china teapots and cups and saucers, it gives the impression that the film is set in historic England as that is what country’s represent England with and also that’s where teapots are made.

We also know that the film is trying to represent the time period, as we see that the dolls are very old fashioned and antique. So this gives the impression to the audience that the film is going to be in the early 1930’s, late 1920’s. We can also tell by the clothing that the children are wearing that is set back in time too.

As the film has the extreme close up of the teapot and cup, the music is very low, slow motioned and has a very funeral sound to it because of the bells, its gives the effect to the audience that it is going to be a film about death, so we get to know that the film is a in the horror genre. We also get a mid-shot of the three girls turning around and staring at nothing, this gives the effect to the audience that there is also going to be so paranormal features within the film, such as ghosts, as the girls once they’ve stared at something, look at the window start walking and crushing their dolls on the way, which tells the audience that it has a very hypnotic sense of genre to it too as they walk out of the window and that they’re prepared to ruin something so der to them because of this hypnotic.

When the girls stare at nothing we can tell that there’s a paranormal spirit there.. As the girls have been put in a type of hypnotic state to kill themselves, it makes the audience feel sorry for the children, and make you go against the paranormal spirit

The narrative of the film is easy to read for the audience as the film directors make it easy for the audience to understand who the antagonist is. So it tells us that the film is going to be about stopping it from doing that, so we get the idea of what the film will be about.