After the credits have finished the camera takes a long shot of the house. In this shot it shows a very large manor house in the model of nowhere. In the background are trees and above the trees is fog. This is a very stereotypical setting for a Ghost story. Big old house in the middle of nowhere, woodland, poor weather and visibility. Also on this shot it says, ‘Jersey, Channel Islands. 1945’. This also tells the viewers how it is set in a remote area. Straight after this shot the camera goes from a long shot of the house to close up shot of a woman who looks like she is standing. She screams. This makes the audience jump then camera tilts 90° to show that she is actually lying in bed. The woman is shaking. She is obviously very scared. She looks around the room. Viewers will be thinking that something has happened or someone is in the room. The room is dark. The camera then once again goes back to an outside shot. Laughing can be heard as the two scenes from inside the house to outside the house merge from one to other and change over. People are seen approaching the house. Once again the shot from outside the house is fairly distant.
The three walk towards the door of the house. The camera then zooms in behind them as a man begins talking. He says, “I imagine he’s dead like all the rest.” This is such a significant sentence of the film as it is basically telling the whole story although viewers who have not seen the film would not know this as then the woman goes on to say, Ah, those were he days”, so the audience will just think that they are talking about an old school friend or something. The woman then rings the doorbell.
A lady called Grace answers the door. She looks puzzled by the people at the door. The camera changes from looking at the woman who answered the door to a shot from inside the house looking out at the people. They are stood with fog in the background. The lady politely says, “Hello mam, we’ve come about…., before the lady has time to finish Grace buts in saying, “Oh yes of course come in!” The three people enter the house. The audience still do not know about why these people have come to the house. The three guests are very pale and have a very mysterious feel to them. After talking to the three guests in the hall way the audience figure out that they are slaves. Grace addresses the salves and then asks them to follow her. Grace walks straight across the camera shot while camera slowly follows behind. This is so that the camera can show the big old dark house. It pans across it. It very dark and airy. Grace tells the slaves how the old slaves had just vanished without picking up their wages this makes the audience think slightly about what happened to the old slaves.
Grace goes through the daily agenda with the slaves. Then she makes a point about locking all the doors behind themselves but does not give a reason why. The audience will once again be wondering what is going on. One of the slaves asks Grace about where her husband is and she tells them that he went to war a year and a half ago. Grace also comments on how silence is such an important thing in her house due to her migraine problems. This is quite subtle telling the audience about her liking silence when she really enjoys the silence because she is a ghost. She does this so as not to give the story away. Grace then offers to show the slaves round the rest of the house. One slave comments that there is no need which is quite a strange thing to do when they are applying for jobs as slaves. This will get the audience thinking about whter they have been to the house before etc.
