The Woman in Black

 

In the first scene the audience see a close-up of a tea pot being poured, nothing comes out of it. This gives the immediate impression that it is a children's tea set being played with. This brings an innocent and normal feel to the start of the film and relaxes the audience. 

The music is quiet but slightly disturbing. It creates a faint feel of fear to the scene, it is there to suggest that something bad is going to happen.

Next, there is a shot of the children playing with the toys. This introduces the audience to the setting and the characters. The lighting in this scene seems to be natural sunlight and re-enforces the feeling of calm. This scene is quite pleasant.

The music begins to build and it starts to sound like a music box, still innocent but a little bit creepy.

 

Suddenly the atmosphere changes. The long shot of the girls reveals more of the room. The room is darker nearer the audience's perspective and is lighter further away. This creates the feeling of danger. The children stop playing and turn to look slightly to the right of the camera. An uneasy atmosphere emerges because they almost break the 4th wall.

The music stops briefly, before the children turn. This creates a divide between the innocence and the horror. 

The children now move towards the window, destroying toys as they go. This shows that their innocence has gone and their actions are unexpected. The close up of the doll's head being crushed gives a hint to what is about to happen. This is juxtaposition from playing with the toys to crushing them.

The music now includes the sound of church bells. This has connotations of death, funerals and sadness.

The children move unnaturally, synchronized. The room is now quite dark and this mirrors the atmosphere. It also shows the audience that they should be scared.  

The bells have stopped and now you can hear a choir that sounds deep and menacing. After the children have jumped, the music stops and you hear a scream of a mother.

The last shot is zoomed out slowly from the window. In the last few seconds, it reveals a glimpse of a silhouette of a woman in black. This woman is an enigma because the audience don't know who she is, what she's doing and if it was her who made the children jump.