Opening Sequence - Saw VI

Genre: Horror
Director: Kevin Greutert
Year released: 2009

The opening to saw VI starts off very dark and alarming to the audience, creating atmosphere straight away and also sets the genre of horror. The camera starts to go around this character of which we see as the audience as a character in trouble and by her reactions, we see her as being frightened and scared by an unfamiliar place. Then a light appears lighting the room enabling the audience and the character to see the setting, of which then it shows the distress of this character as she becomes aware of the knives on the table the camera shots to a point of view shot showing the audience what she has just seen on the table (knives). We are unaware of another character in the room until it cuts to another character with the same situation, as the characters interact with each other we See that they know each other. As a TV screen appears with a clown we are then informed as an audience what these characters have to be freed. Then as then timer goes off we see the timer as it then continuously cross cuts between the characters slaughtering themselves.

In this opening a lot is seen and it immediately indicates to the audience what genre and what they are in for by the opening. The opening of 'Saw VI' informs the audience a lot by the simple use of showing the setting and also the way that they used the characters as being unaware of the situation much like the audience so they can inform the characters while also informing the audience. The opening is very simply done yet very effective in the plot. The use of sounds is used very cleverly, as the opening starts off very quite which is very unsettling to the audience, of which any movement or sound made by anything in the room surprises the audience as its unexpected and it grips the audience.