nightmare on elm street opening

In the opening scene to the original nightmare on elm street the first thing the audience sees is the words “from new line cinema.” In blood red righting that covers most of the screen. From this the audience can automatically tell that this is a horror film because of the choice of colour and because red (blood) is a convention of horror films

The next thing we see is a man walking across the screen breathing heavily. The man (Freddy Kruger )then goes on to empty some metal objects on to his old desk. He starts to fashion the metal in to blades and fix them to a glove this shows that he is making an original and creative weapon. From this scene the audience can tell that he is going to be the villain in the film because he is a lonely silent and violent man.

When Freddy sticks his claws through the wall the audience can tell what he made the glove for (killing.) when we see the girl running the audience is supposed to sympathise with her, the director does this by giving her allot of time on camera and by giving  her close ups so we can see her face. after the close up of her face there is a long shot of the girl running for about 20 seconds. the camera man uses this shot because it shows the audience that she is an important charicter in this scene

We don’t actually see much of Freddy Kruger’s face in the opening scene this has an effect on the audience because it stops the audience from feeling sorry for him.it also tells the audience that that he probably an ugly or deformed person.

by this scene we can tell that this is a horror film because of the lighting is generally dark.the fact that the lighting is dark shows the audience that this is a horror film. this film shows that the antaganist is hiding in the dark because he doesnt want to be seen. by people.the scenery in this scene shows that its a horror film because normal people dont hide in boiler rooms.

this whole scene conforms to the seriotype that women need a man to protect them and that if they dont have someone to protect them they are defencless