Further research into horror movies

In the opening scene of Insidious we are made aware of the main protagonist and the anti-protagonist. The Location is set using a master shot, making the audience aware of the main location where the story is being set. However, before all of this information is provided to the audience we have the opening credits foreshadowing what will happen at the end of the film, creating an ominous atmosphere. `The use of black and white (binary opposite); the black was more dominant showing the audience how the evil has become more dominant over the purity of the white. At the beginning of the first scene their non-diegetic sound which is used to put the audience on edge (as they specifically use a distorted violin throughout the opening pre-scene). Moreover, we also see the use of silence within the first scene to create a sense of spookiness.

In the opening scene of the movie ‘Hush’ a crane shot is used to form an establishing shot and set the location which then becomes a dolly in shot to take the viewers closer to the house where the main events in the film take place,

In the opening scene of ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’, the camera is not in focus and then starts to rotate. When the shot straightens up, the focal depth gradually changes from being focussed on the vegetation to being focussed on the house. Focus pull is used: Moving from one type of shallow focus to another type of shallow focus (within the same shot). This is often used to dramatically reveal something to the audience and to change the focus of the audience’s attention.