The film The Women in Black is horror genre; using genre conventions throughout the opening scene it creates and builds tension. The film uses a range of horror genre conventions such as location and when the film was set, for example a film like The Woman in Black, which is not set in modern day, can create a tense atmosphere as we know technology is not what it is now during the era a film could have been set. The audience knowing there are more complications in even contacting another person to warn them of possible danger will build narrative enigma. These genre conventions are easy to recognise and make the genre and sub genre of the films very clear to us; the audience automatically without noticing recognise these and will instantly begin to foreshadow what is to come after the opening scene.
In the opening scene, mise en scene is used to build tension through the use of the costumes and props that the young girls use. This develops tension as we know that the children are young and innocent through the children’s toys and pretty costumes, as they look across the room and see how the children are not smiling which most children would be whilst playing together with their toys we realise this is foreshadowing that something bad will happen. Another aspect of mise en scene is that we can denote that the room is quiet and still as well as dark and dingy we can connote that this is foreshadowing the events that happen later in the scene. The attic room does not feel homely neither a happy place for children to be, this creates narrative enigma as the audience begin to wonder why this is and if the young girls are in danger.
Within the opening scene a range of camera angles and frames are used to evoke a sense of emotion like worry and tension within the audience causing interest to build. One of the main frames used is a close up; this is used to show how the emotion of the children has changed in an instant. The lovely young girls who before cared and played with their dolls and toys in happiness, the children are then seen crushing, kicking and breaking their toys that they had once loved without even looking down, as if they are in a trance. This causes the audience to be engaged and speculate what would happen next to the young girls.
The film The Women in Black is horror genre; using genre conventions throughout the opening scene it creates and builds tension. The film uses a range of horror genre conventions such as location and when the film was set, for example a film like The Woman in Black, which is not set in modern day, can create a tense atmosphere as we know technology is not what it is now during the era a film could have been set. The audience knowing there are more complications in even contacting another person to warn them of possible danger will build narrative enigma. These genre conventions are easy to recognise and make the genre and sub genre of the films very clear to us; the audience automatically without noticing recognise these and will instantly begin to foreshadow what is to come after the opening scene.
In the opening scene, mise en scene is used to build tension through the use of the costumes and props that the young girls use. This develops tension as we know that the children are young and innocent through the children’s toys and pretty costumes, as they look across the room and see how the children are not smiling which most children would be whilst playing together with their toys we realise this is foreshadowing that something bad will happen. Another aspect of mise en scene is that we can denote that the room is quiet and still as well as dark and dingy we can connote that this is foreshadowing the events that happen later in the scene. The attic room does not feel homely neither a happy place for children to be, this creates narrative enigma as the audience begin to wonder why this is and if the young girls are in danger.
Within the opening scene a range of camera angles and frames are used to evoke a sense of emotion like worry and tension within the audience causing interest to build. One of the main frames used is a close up; this is used to show how the emotion of the children has changed in an instant. The lovely young girls who before cared and played with their dolls and toys in happiness, the children are then seen crushing, kicking and breaking their toys that they had once loved without even looking down, as if they are in a trance. This causes the audience to be engaged and speculate what would happen next to the young girls.