Homework on 'The Happening'

My Homework on Techniques in an Opening Sequence in the Happening is posted below

• Music – slow pace but sped up to create suspense
• Midshot of clouds in sky moving at the pace of the music – darkening as the dramatic music picked up and was faster paced
• Credits at the beginning – actors names, producers names e.t.c while clouds are in the background and are speeding up
• Simple bold font to make the text stand out
• Long shot of the people in the park – establishing shot – introducing the setting
• Jump cut to view through the trees of the sky and high rise building giving audience more info of setting
• Two shot of women reading on a bench – diagetic music of people in background, non-diagetic music over to create mystery and suspension
• Dialogue about killers and crippled girl make the viewer curious to know what she is reading
• Screams are heard in the park – voice over
• Close up of knitting needle in woman’s hair and her pulling it out
• Close up of her stabbing herself in the neck with it