Sixth Sense Opening Analysis

 The film opens with titles.
The titles are blue, contrasting the dark background. This eerie shade of blue has connotations of coldness and death. This matches the sinister music, and makes us as an audience feel unsettled, and worried for things to come.

The film fades in from black gradually and we are eventually left with this image. At first we as an audience struggle to see what we are faced with, until we begin to see the coil heating up. A closeup has been used allowing the audience to see that the bulb looks old and dim. Will this be reflected in this room?

 We are then presented with this shot, when we see the room for the first time, and we can distinguish this room as being the basement. The basement looks dirty and dark, this makes the audience feel nervous for this character. We can also see that this woman's dress contrasts the rest of the room which shows that she is out of her element, and shouldn't be there. This shot also suggests she is being watched from behind this shelf making us think this character isn't alone.

 The camera then cranes down to show this character searching for a specific bottle of wine, she is searching quickly suggesting that she is feeling on edge in her current predicament, this is then reinforced when we see her sigh after finding the right bottle. She feels hurried and wants to leave as quick as possible.

 The camera then slowly tracks into the characters face creating tension. We also see her facial expression change completely, we are certain that this character feels uncomfortable, and this suggests that something maybe behind this character.

 This then links seamlessly into this shot, this long-shot shows our character feeling cagey and uncomfortable, we see this in her body language. The framing of this shot is incredibly well constructed, as the shadow looks as if it is a separate entity, the shadows of the window also form a bar like structure around the silhouette suggesting she has no escape.

 This is another long-shot framed behind a set of stairs, suggesting she is still being watched ans stalked. This shot also allows us to see more of her environment. This use of long-shot also makes our character look venerable and isolated.

Our character shivers and heads towards the stairs, we see that our character is wearing heels, this makes us feel anxious, as our character is unable to get out of the basement quickly, leaving her vulnerable to whatever is down there with her.