The Orphan

First point;

Camera angle/shot;

• This shot is a bird-eye shot, giving us a view of the whole scene. This type of camera angle helps to show how small the two people in this shot are.
• The two people in this shot are placed in the middle of the shot, giving neither of them a clear dominance or sense of power.
• Both women seem to be quite close to each other, showing a personal distance relationship. However, as the audience, we are set very far away from the characters. 

Sound;

• At this particular point in the opening of the film, there is little sound. The only sound we can hear is the diegetic sound of the woman in the wheelchair groaning in pain.
• The silence in the rest of the corridor helps to emphasis the woman's pain and helps to build tension

Mise En Scene

• The woman pushing the wheelchair is dressed all in white, connoting innocence. This could mean that she has nothing to do with the trail of blood and also cannot help with it.
• The trail of blood is bright red and shows that there may be huge amounts of danger in this situation. And because we know that the woman in the wheelchair is pregnant, tension builds as we fear for the unborn child's life.
• The fact that the woman is pregnant in this brief dream, shows her vulnerability as we know that she is not particularly strong and probably cannot even walk properly.
• Focusing on the rest of the shot, it is also all white and/or pale greys. This shows that the blood is probably by natural causes and not a murder of any sort.
• The empty chairs in the bottom left of the shot are both empty. This could emphasise the fact that the woman is lonely. We would, naturally, expect to see the woman's partner with her, but he is not there.
• The lighting in most of the shot is quite bright and evenly spread. But the way the woman in the wheelchair is going, looks rather dark. This connotes that something bad could happen when she gets to wherever it is she is being pushed.

Second point;

Camera angle/shot;

• This would be a medium shot because, even though we cannot see the heads of some people in this shot, we can see the whole of their torso. 
• The way that the heads of the doctors have been cut off by this shot shows a complete lack of emotional attachment to this woman. It cuts out their eyes, showing us nothing about how, and what, they are feeling.

Sound;

• There is a very quiet non-diegetic tune in the background at this point. It is a low and slow tune with very little to it. It sounds as if someone is blowing down a pipe. This sound creates tension whilst the woman is going through her surgery.
• We can also hear the diegetic sounds of the doctors, and of the woman. The doctors voice at one point, however, is disembodied. We do no see his face when he says 'it's too late for that.' This completely cuts him off from us and does not give us any indication of his emotions

Mise En Scene;

• Again, a lot of the clothing in this shot is white, connoting an innocent turn for the worse. 
• The lighting in this shot is, overall, quite dark. The lights are mainly on the woman on the chair but all around her is dark. The darkness shows that whatever is going on, the woman could be confused (as we link the fear of the dark with the fear of the unknown.)
• It is clear that the woman is the dominant in this shot.
• However, there is nothing in this shot to connote danger, contradicting with the first point. There is no red and no blood.
• In the right hand corner of this shot, we can see the light reflecting off of something metal. This draws our attention to the object and we start to wonder what it is. If the light is reflecting off of it, it is for a reason so this medical instrument must be important. 

Editing;

• This whole opening scene is continuity editing. It shows the course of events along a certain timeline.
• There are also some jump cuts in this opening, for example; when the woman wakes up from this dream.