Task 2.1 WOMEN IN BLACK ANALYSIS (horror)

WOMEN IN BLACK REVIEW 

The opening to women in black is something of a distilled manner, we are introduced to the first scene by an extreme close up of a child's tea cup and tea pot. referring straight away that, children are going to be involved in the film. The viewers tend to be more sensitive when kids are involved due to their purity and age, they don't deserve harm to them. creating an uncomfortable effect on the viewer.


unlike a typical horror movie of dark contrast and remote areas, the women in black has a lot of exposure in light evidently using day light also. in addition to this factor the daylight could be used in a metaphorical sense that the exposer of the light is a resemblance of the purity of the children playing; as light and dark links with good and evil. Bringing the audience to feel more emotionally attached to the children involved, so when harm comes to them more of an effect it has upon them

close ups 

through the first couple of close shots we get a very detailed idea of were the location may be set. Giving us an idea of context too. We get extreme close ups of girl pretending to sip tea and then on after of her giving the tea to a battered doll. s they are using teapots and cups and saucers, it gives the impression that the film is set in England as that is what country’s represent England with and also that’s where teapots are made, so it says to the audience that it is an

As the film has the extreme close up of 
the teapot and cup, the music is very low, slow motioned and has a very funeral sound to it because of the bells, its gives the effect to the audience that it is going to be a film about death, so we get to know that the film is a in the horror genre. We also get a mid-shot of the three girls turning around and staring at nothing, this gives the effect to the audience that there is also going to be so paranormal features within the film, such as ghosts, as the girls once they've stared at nothing, look at the window start walking and crushing their dolls on the way, which tells the audience that it has a very hypnotic sense of genre to it too as they walk out of the window.

evil presences 

When the girls stare at nothing we can tell that there’s a ghost there, which tells the audience that there’s an evil entity present. As the girls have been put in a type of hypnotic state to kill themselves, it makes the audience feel sorry for the children, and make you go against the ghost which makes the audience think of the ghost as the protagonist. It’s the antagonist of the film because the entity makes the girls kill themselves; this tells the audience that the ghost is going to go around killing people for some sort of reason that will be shown later on in the film.


The narrative of the film is easy to read for the audience as the film directors make it easy for the audience to understand who the antagonist is, and that the public is going to be in danger of it, so it tells us that the film is going to be about stopping it from doing that, so we get the idea that everyone else is the protagonist.