The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense is a thriller film about a child who communicates with spirits that aren't aware that they are dead. Malcolm Crowe, a professional child psychologist is visited by one of his ex-patients who seems extremely unhappy, and after   realising how much his problems have increased since he stopped seeing the patient, the psychologist takes on the task of curing a young boy with similar symptoms of the ex-patient. The child is pinned to have mental health issues, and no one believes his claims that he "sees dead people". His mother is running out of solutions to her child's increasing problems, and Malcolm is his only hope.

I am going to evaluate the first fifteen minutes of the film: The Sixth Sense.
I have chosen this film because it relates to my own storyline, in the fact the it is a film about ghosts and the problems that they can cause. I could get some ideas from the use of camera angles, etc.

The opening sequence is just a black screen, rolling the opening credits in a classic white font. There is a slow, sort of eerie music playing very faintly, and slowly the volume of it increases building up to the first shot of the film.

The first thing we see is a black screen, and whatever is there is indistinguishable at first. A few spots of light show up and slowly get brighter, but at a pace that still keeps an eerie edge to link in with the music of the opening credits. We then see 2 curved lines of orange light come on and begin to get brighter, becoming apparent that it is a filament of a bulb.  The music then stops and a bang is heard, showing us that there is a person present in the scene. The shot then switches to what appears to be a room, but our vision is blocked by some shelves or a book case. The shelves are out of focus, and we see a woman's legs walking down some stairs into what appears to be the basement of a building. She stops suddenly at the bottom of the stairs and looks at something close to the camera, making the audience wonder what she is looking at, and why she has suddenly stopped with this shocked look on her face. She then slowly walks to the shelves that we are looking through, and we realie that it is a wine rack. She examines a few of the bottles, looking up and down the shelves and the camera follows, still looking shocked or confused (intriguing us to wonder why this could be). She picks up a bottle from the top shelf, and looks at it closer, then looks at the shelf more confused and shocked. The camera zooms into her face to create suspense and intrigue us to know what it is she is looking at.