The Woman In Black opening

The location of the film is in a victorian house in the attic. The children are playing tea party's in their room, pouring cups of tea and playing with their dolls. The three children then catch eye contact with something however the scene is filmed so that the audience can't see what the children are looking at. The three children then drop everything they are doing and walk straight towards the window, crushing everything in their way. They then jump out the windows to their death.

The genre of this film is thriller and at the beginning it subverts to its genre as it shows three victorian children playing with their dolls at a tea party. However this may be considered conforming as in modern horror films dolls and nursery rhymes can be considered as creepy and eerie after many horror films have used this to subvert, it has now become more of a conformed beginning to a horror film.

In the opening scene of this film the sound in non diegetic music of bells some of the music sounded like church bells. After the three girls have caught eye contact with something and got up after looking at the window, 1:05, drums are added into non-diegetic music making the music build up more dramatically as the three children walk towards the window. The music gets louder and the drums become more dramatic to create suspense. There is some diegetic film in the opening, the smashing of a china tea cup as one of the children drop it to walk towards the window and the breaking of the dolls head and teapot. There are also screams coming from the mum after the children have jumped out of the window, and you can hear the unlock of the windows in the scene.