sixth sense

The female woman is in the cellar to collect a bottle of wine to celebrate her husband’s great achievement. The audience will know by this point that something might happen as it is dark and the camera shots are behind objects as if somebody is watching her.

There are lots of different camera shots used in the opening scenes e.g. the panning shot were the woman is getting a bottle of wine and the camera is behind the wine rack and follows her down it. This is a sign that somebody could be watching her closely and following her. There are a few background sounds in this scene were it sounds like somebody’s stood on a peace of glass which is called diegetic sound. The start of the scene is were the little filament in a light bulb lights up but does not light up the bulb then a couple of seconds later the bulb lights up and brightens the cellar up a bit. 

In the previous scene it’s in the cellar were its dark and dirty and the woman gets a bit frightened and rushes out. The next bit is zooming in on all the nice warm candles and beautiful cards. The whole point in this is to make the audience think that everything is alright and they are going to be safe because of the nice orangey candles making the room feel warm.

The camera shots are really important in films because they can show you what is happening e.g. were the cytologist and his wife is together and the camera is quite close up to them. This could be showing that they are together and have a good relationship.        

The lighting is nice and warm to make the audience think everything is alright. The music is diegetic and could show that something is about to happen.

The audience need to understand that the man and the woman are together and there relationship is strong.

The scene in the bedroom begins when they are taking there cloths of and laughing and it was quite dark. The camera shots was quite close up (medium close up). The characters are behaving in a giddy way.

The last camera shot on the woman is were she is looking at the man and starts to turn around then goes back onto the man and he is smiling then all of a sudden his face was in shock. Then the camera looked at the woman and she was looking down on the floor and the camera moved down and was a close up of all the glass.

The audience find out there is an intruder when the man and woman are looking at the broken glass a shadow moves along the wall and the woman gets really scared. The audience now no something bad is going to happen.

The intruder is revealed by a long camera shot that is pointing down and walking around the corner and when u see his feet it starts moving up his body to reveal his face.

The music dialogue creates tension, before and after the intruder appears the music is really slow and makes you think something’s going to happen and when the camera looks at the intruder it gets louder. The intruder does not say anything to the man he just turns around picks up the gun and shoots the man then the camera starts to move away and the intruder shoots himself in his head.

The director is trying to create frightening and tense opening scenes. He wants the audience to be frightened and scared. I thought it was effective because it is supposed to be a supernatural thriller and it was so I think it was very effective.

Jack barber