Opening Scene Analysis of The Woman in Black.

The opening scene of woman in black clearly presents the film as a horror and a film that's not suitable for children, this is shown through a range of things such as the music, the introduction and just overall clearly states that it is a dark, creepy film.

The music right at the beginning while the little girls are playing with there dolls really catches the audience attention because it creates a lot of tension and makes the audience want to carry on watching even tho the music makes it sound like something major is about to happen, and overall really gets your adrenaline going. Also throughout the scene there is no talking apart from right at the end bit that you hear the mother of the children screaming as she would clearly be devastated seeing her children just jump out of a window for no reason, this might make the audience feel sorry for the mother because of she didn't know what was going on and  must be a massive shock for her and would be very upsetting. The no speaking involved is very effective because it forces the reader really get involved with the scene that's going on and have to concentrate very well because the storyline isn't been thrown at you with speaking and its all visible.

Right at the beginning of the scene the camera is based on a group of little girls that are brushing there dolls hair and just having a general tea party, however dolls are usually one of the main items that creep people out and there are many people that are scared of dolls, and in this case the producers have purposely used them to make sure that even at the beginning of the film tense. Later on in the opening scene it is shown that the three girls jump out of the window because they saw the woman in black, this gives the audience an overview on what the whole film is about before it actually starts and this means the audience will understand what's going on and have a general understanding because the film could be very hard to follow with otherwise.