The Ring
At the start of the opening sequence to 'The Ring' there is a young pretty girl, this is to attract the male audience. This girl is only in the movie to be the site of activity, we never actually find out much about her, she is just there to start the movie of. At the beginning the young girl is scared because the TV continues to flicker on and off. She thinks that it is just her friend playing a trick on her because of the story they had just told upstairs, but then she comes across the TV remote and confirms to herself that it isn't her friend and now gets very concerned.
At this point you would expect something to happen and make you jump due to the camera angle and the fact that we can see her and her reflection in the TV.
It happens again in the scene below, you would think there would be something happening that will soon make you jump due to the camera shot. You'd believe this because you can see all the way down the hall. Because of all these fake scares it build up more fear throughout the sequence.
It happens again in the scene below, you would think there would be something happening that will soon make you jump due to the camera shot. You'd believe this because you can see all the way down the hall. Because of all these fake scares it build up more fear throughout the sequence.
The sequence links back to Wes Craven meaning that the girls are in a safe place such as a big house that looks nice, somewhere you wouldn't expect anything bad to happen.
The Women in Black
This opening sequence starts with three young beautiful girls in a room playing with some dolls having a 'tea party'. During the whole sequence the same music is played throughout, it is a nursery tune which can bring fear to the audience, as the girls get closer to their death the music gets louder and more intense. Once the girls have jumped the music cuts out where you begin to hear the womens screams. There is not dialogue throughout which makes this more effective. Compared to 'The Ring' this is a very different kind of opening sequence, due to the fact that this has no dialogue but 'The Ring' does.
It is at this point the music begins to get more intense because all three girls look up at the camera, which puts the audience in fear of what they are looking at. Another thing in this shot is there is an 'absence of authority', there is no one around to help them which makes this scene more intense for the audience.
Another things is that at this point we know something bad is going to happen, we know this because of the way that they cared for their precious dolls and now they are crushing them without a single thought.