"The Ring" opening analysis

First of all we see an image of a young girl walking up stairs and walking into some water.  We see a close up of her face looking frightened and then a close up of her hand on a door handle.  We then see her enter a room and this shot is juxtaposed with a shot of a blank tv screen and then we fast zoom in on her screaming.  The Screen then is black and we see the following titles:

1.       Studio name (production)

2.       A directors name

3.       Lead actors name

4.       Other actors name

5.       Film title flashing unleges of blood

6.       The actors name

7.       Black and white image of tree

8.       Casting by....

9.       Music by....

10.   Black and white image of glass water with red blood

11.   Edited by

12.   Black and white image of chair

13.   Produced by

14.   Fast montage

15.   Slow images

16.   Written by

17.   Black and white images

18.   Directed by

Camera shots/angles/movement and composition

In my opinion, the most interesting camera shot was the shallow focus of the door handle. We see this in the beginning of the title sequence. I believe this is to show that something scary or exciting is inside the house. In addition, the shallow focus is used to show the audience what to “keep their eyes on”.

The second most interesting camera shot in my opinion was the close up of the woman’s face. The close up is used to show us her facial expressions, forcing the audience to think what she is is thinking. It also makes the audience feel shocked as her facial expression was asif something frightening was on the other side of the camera.

The most interesting camera movement was the fast zoom in to a close up of the girls face as it made the audience feel uncomfortable and shocked. 

Sound

The diegetic sound that was most important is that of the girl screaming because it gives us a sense that the rest of the movie was shocking and frightening.

The non diegetic music was odd and eerie and played only when the titles were playing.  It was a composed soundtrack which included many stringed instruments to add to the eerie sound.

Editing

The most interesting edit was before and during the title sequences.  There was a fast montage of shots used of random black and white eerie objects and those were coloured with blood. 

In between each of the titles was edited an image of one of these objects the effect was to shock the audience and makes the audience feel that they will see something scary relating to the images later in the film.

Conventions used:

Screaming
Blue filter
Close up shots of faces and important icons
non diegetic eerie music
silence to create tension
fast editing to raise tension

titles in a font which suits the genre

i will use the title sequences used in "The Ring" to structure my own created one. i will also have close up's of mainly faces, non-diegetic and diegetic sounds, fast editing and lastly silence somwhere within the extract.

Created and edited by Ali Korkomaz