Opening Deconstruction

'The Noise' Opening Scene

Camera

• Establishing shot of the exterior of the house with shallow depth of surrounding area, isolating it from everything else around it (conforming to the conventions of an isolated location in horror) with the surrounding location only being shown in other shots, separating them.  
• Flashback scene is used to give the audience an explanation for the opening sequence of events in which the audience are introduced to the danger instantly.
• When the victim is seated, the footage is filmed from an overheard angle to make the character appear smaller, highlighting their weakness. The shot then switches to a close up of her face to show the audience that she is calm and content, not distressed like in the previous flash forward, which is re-enforced again when it cuts to a family photograph, representing that she her death with have specific effect on those around her.
• When the victim answers the phone, she is filmed as a reaction shot to show her emotion as it is altered by the phone conversation. As she gets more irritated when the phone calls continue, it changes to a close up to focus specifically on her emotion. 

Lighting

• No light in upstairs of house, creates opposition between the light-up downstairs where the girl is safe and the dark upstairs where she is attacked.
• Artificial red lighting used to connote danger contrasts with the safe calm white lighting of the other room within the flashback.

Sound

• High frequency crescendo is used to enforce emphasis of the build up towards the dangerous encounter and creates suspense. Followed by a fall after the loud contrasting slamming sound that the audience has been anticipating.As the sound falls and dies out, the diegetic sound of the torch falling to the ground becomes dominant, highlighting the reality.
• The eerie non-diegetic sound overlay added during the flashback scene before the phone rings is used to differentiate the scene and show that although it appears to be, it is not ordinary and safe as the character on-screen believes.

Mise En Scene

•  Character is female and is dressed in white which represents her innocence and weakness, introduces her as the victim. The low-cut top (conforming to conventions of slasher horror films in which the most 'sexual' characters of a group are usually first to die) is used to re-enforce her femininity in contrast to the fully covered attacker who is dressed in black to connote the evil within.
• Use of the torch within the darkly red lit room shows the difference between the victim and the situation she is in, the white representing her innocence and purity as opposed to the contaminated environment around her. The torch is also used to direct the audience's focus to everything the victim can see, enabling them to view from her point of view and empathise with her fear. When the victim drops the torch as she encounters the evil, it is used to represent her loss of any hope as she is now doomed.

Editing

• Jump cuts are used to show specific different items of information within the pile of paper highlight to the audience that those particular items are of relevance to the plot that will follow, drawing their attention.