The music used is very traditional and eery, this sets the time period to the photos that are being shown, this gives the audience an idea of what the film is based on. There are typical titles at the beginning saying who the film is produced by.
Fade ins and outs of antique images are shown, but as the photos are shown they appear to be of traditional families, but slowly throughout the opening sequence the photos are zoomed out and it is apparent that the family members are posing with other deceased family members. This could possibly connote that this film could have hidden meanings, much like the photos. This creates an enigma for the audience as they will wonder why there are photos such as these.
Some of the photos used include dead babies, which can be seen as very disturbing because babies are seen as new life and are used to portray innocence, but here their death is seen to be something to remembered and in a way cherished, otherwise they would not have images of it's death.
Throughout the opening, piano music is playing, and as the straight cuts used increase in frequency, the piano music begins to distort, and sounds of people screaming are brought out to the audiences notice.
As these images are being shown, there are straight cuts from the photos and shots of someone handling a dead body, there are shots of the person, who's face you can't see, sticking tubes into what are presumed to be dead bodies, this shows the slightly disturbing things about death that most people do not think about. Also jump cuts are used while the photos are being shown, and there are flashes of white which draws the audiences attention to the photos.
Camera movement is mainly still as photos are shown of the families and deceased bodies. Although as the images fade and a woman is shown being propped for a video recording, the camera pans across the screen and the audience can see that the woman is being recorded on a video camera, this makes is clear to the audience, and gives the audience the feeling that they are seeing something from behind the scenes.
As the woman is talking, the camera pans again but it pans from a pile of newspapers which read 'the real hell house' which shows the audience what she is referring to.
The audience is told that the film is based on a true story, this creates realism as the audience realise that this is not a fictional film and that these events or events similar to these actually happened. But how 'true' the story is, cannot be clear.
Then the title of the film is revealed, while the woman is still talking about how people want to know what happened to her and her family.
The title fades in and out, it is in very basic text and is clear to the audience.
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