SL- Technical analysis - the eye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wVU8CRESp4

A black screen fades to an establishing shot of grass and trees outside in the dark with an eerie noise in the background. It then fades to black again and we hear a loud noise almost like a gunshot. An image fades in from black of someone running in the dark and then quickly flashes back to the black again. This is repeated twice with eerie music. The black then fades to a rundown house with a child shouting and ‘BRUJA’ is written on the house in red connoting danger, blood or death. It then fades to black again and then becomes light as there is a MCU of a light bulb and a hand reaching up to turn it on. The light bulb sways and we can hear the ‘clunking’ sound of the light bulb and a boy still shouting. It then fades to black again. There is a close up of an object however it is not clear to see what it is and there are voices murmuring in the background. A MCU of someone’s feet are seen with the shadow of their legs on the ground and we can hear a voice whispering. It fades to black again and there is another ‘shot’ sound then the picture of the grass and trees is shown again except there are 3 boys this time. Ominous music is played and we see the boys shouting and throwing objects. It then fades to black again and then to a panning shot of the back of someone’s head and the sound of glass breaking. It then fades to black and then again to the boys outside throwing things and shouting with the sound of glass breaking. It cuts to a wall with a shadow of someone’s head and shoulders and then fades to black again. The children fade back in and we can still hear them shouting, see them throwing things and hear the diegetic sound of glass breaking. Handheld camera shots are used as the camera movements are jerky as we see the boys still throwing things, however not as clearly as it seems misty and the picture is unclear. It fades to black yet again and then a mid-shot of someone’s hand picking up wires with the crashing and shouting noises still in the background. It fades to black again and then a close-up of someone’s hands fiddling with some wires and the background noise becoming fainter and sounding like echoes. It then fades back to black. We then see a worms-eye-view mid shot of a chair and someone moving it and then standing on it seeing only the bottom of their legs and feet. It then cuts to a close-up of a pole and someone’s hands wrapping wires around the pole with the echoing crashing noises in the background and the sound of the person grunting and struggling. It then cuts to black again and then a MLS of a window with cobwebs fades in and we just hear a quiet ominous sound. It fades back to black again. We see a mid-shot of the person’s foot on the chair and can again hear the crashing in the background. It zooms in to a close-up of the foot and then fades back to black with shrill music and then the same window is shown again with a crash in the background. It then cuts to an XCU of a girl’s face looking terrified and crying. We can hear her crying and the shrill music is still playing. It then quickly cuts back to the window but with a faint, strange and ghostly looking figure in front of the window and then again quickly cuts back to the girls face and back to the ghost and window again. The ghost screams and jumps towards the camera baring its teeth and it then cuts to a worms-eye-view of bricks and the chair being thrown with the sound of a crash. It then cuts to black again and becomes quiet with some eerie music in the background. Credits then start in white on the black background.

The main aspect of this opening that i found interesting was the transitions as these were done by fading to black and then to another location or something/someone in the same location. This darkness created tension and increased the pace creating an unnerving atmosphere.