Scream movie opening scene sequence

Scream movie opening scene sequence

'Scream' was created in 1996, and was directed by film director, Wes Craven, who is known for his work in the 'Scream' saga, as well as 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'The Hills Have Eyes'.

Poster: Talking about scream movie poster, first thing you see in it is huge, blue, scared eyes. Eye colour mixed with grey-black background, which enchants blue colour even more. Blue colour represents and connects with everything that is cold.  Forevermore, that connects to film genre, which is horror.  Other association with blue and coldness would be death. Death is the main aim of the killers in horror movies. Therefore, in this poster 'Eyes' would be denotation, because its represent by what it is. In other hand, it connotes emotional representation of the woman's feelings.

Other things, which fall in the eyesight by watching poster is a white face and a palm, covering her mouth. White is a symbol of the purity and everything clean, but in this poster white colour has symbolic meaning - it represents pure fear, which you can see in her face. Other symbol could be haft palm covering her face. Main 'shh' symbol is one finger near mouth, but in the poster, you can see more than one finger. That could symbolize huge fear, which leaves her speechless. On the other hand, it could be an index, which shows palm, but it will be indexical. It will represent, that person is chased by murder and she covers her mouth, because she does not want to make any sound and stay alive.

'Scream' title is simple and edgy, which could symbolize main weapon of the horror movie - knife, secondly, colour is white, which connects to the women's face colour.

'Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.' This sentences shows main idea of the movie, that main characters will be horror movie lovers, which like the feeling that horror movies bring to them. On the other hand, it would be the main reason why they die.

Title: While 'Scream' movie title appears in the screen, you could see letters in white colour and hear sound similar to heart beating. Later when title appears on the screen, you could see red colour shadow behind the white letter, which pulsing as the heartbeat. Sound mixed, when title appears on the screen you could hear sound, which symbolize door slam. After that, you still see red shadow pulsing as heartbeat, in background you still hear heart-beating sound, that get mixed with a woman’s scream. Title in the end of the sequence finally turns into bloody red colour from white combining with a woman’s scream and slicing noise, which connotes, that she might be dead.

 

Scene: The main protagonist of the opening scene in 'SCREAM' is Casey. A close-up show starts to show her chest and shows what she is wearing as her costume, mis en scene and her facial expression, while she is talking with the mystery man on the phone. She creates good look of the potential victim. She has short blonde hair. Blonde-haired person mostly denotate, that person might be stupid and not smart. She is always playing with her hair, while she is flirting over the phone with the mysterious man. She is wearing a long sleeved cardigan, which sleeve covers some of her hands and we do not see any bright make-up.

The genre of this film is a horror film. The genre is introduced first, with a wide shot used of the house; I could understand from it that the house is far away from any other house in the neighbourhood. While a swing is swinging, I could see house appearance. The house has many windows, which are not covered by curtains or anything else. Furthermore, you can understand how easy it is to stalk the main victim Casey, plus the swings in front of the house are slowly swinging by, denotating that someone might be already there and stalking Casey.

While Casey is flirting with the mystery man on the phone she is mostly walking through the isolated house and the audience by that could get some kind of guidance through the house.

While we had guidance through the house, we do not see any clocks in there, so we cannot say what time it is now, but there is popcorn on the heater, which works as a clock and shows how everything gets intense with the every second.

When popcorn just started to heat up the conversation between Casey and mystery man is normal just about random things for example (why is she making popcorn?), but when the talk turns about her favourite horror movie, while she is talking about 'Halloween' movie, she grabs biggest kitchen knife in the house, while flirting with the mystery man on the phone. When she puts down the knife into its place again, I see a shot of the popcorn on the heater, which is more bloated, than it was in the beginning of the conversation between them. Bloated popcorn shows how much time passed while they were talking and its bloat connote that conversation will change from flirting with him into something more intense.

As I see from their conversation Casey would like cheat on her boyfriend, because when she is questioned about it, she said that she doesn’t have one, but when mystery man starts threatening her, everything turns upside down and she finally says that she has a boyfriend, who will protect her.

When action reaches its culmination, I could see the popcorn scene again. In that shot, I see how popcorn is extremely bloated and explodes in one place, showing, that huge intensity is coming.

In next shot I could see how Casey finally got terrified of the mystery man when he said that he is looking at her now, after that she hung up the phone. After she reached the kitchen wanting to turn off the heater, but a phone call interferes there, showing that now nothing can be stopped until it explodes at the right time.

When Casey fails to take over control, mystery man threatens her that he will cut her like a fish, she starts run around the house, to lock doors and windows.

She stops near the main door with the prismatic windows in it, by showing and enchanting how she is isolated in that house, more than she thinks.

After more threatening words, she hung up again and the mystery man reaches his max rage level. Main intro begins. When someone rings the doorbell and Casey asks 'who's there'. Mystery man calls again and gives a small introduction to Casey, that you can't ask who's there, because it is an invitation for the murder to come in. After that talk Casey starts defending and threatens back the mystery man, saying that she has a strong boyfriend, who plays football. By saying that he plays football it stereotypes that he is strong and could beat up the mystery man.

However, mystery man breaks her thoughts from being saved by her boyfriend, when he mentions his name and asks her to light lighting again.