opening five minutes of a teen horror!

In our previous lesson, we watched the first opening 5 minutes of the teen horror; Wrong turn. We focused on the visual and audio features and conventions of what makes the film fit into the genre of teen horror. The first thing that the audience notices is the way in which the titles arrive onto the screen. In 'Wrong turn' they use a distorted, white font which slowly turns to reveal the words, this gives a mysterious feel already. As well as this the music starts while titles are running and becomes louder as the film starts.
     An establishing shot of the stretch of woods sets the scene as an isolated place with no sign of close habitation. From this we then see a young couple climbing up the side of a rock cliff. Already the couple being young is a signifier to the genre and allows the teen audience to relate. Also, the sport is known as being dangerous which could show the audience that the couple are in some sort of danger already and using the long angle shots gives impact to this. The language used between the couple is very easy for a teen audience to relate to as well as the idea of it being 'a race to the top'.
    Once the 'boyfriend' reaches the top and undoes the equiptment from himself, the girl is alone. The idea of a girl alone and not near the top yet would add tension to the scene because the audience can see that something is going to happen. A false scare also takes place when the girl slips a little against the rock and it's only when the audience feels calm again, when she's ok, that the unknown crisis happens. She hears her 'boyfriend' fall and a zoom in of his blood dripping against her face takes her away from feeling safe. She starts to be pulled up by the 'unknown' only to set herself free with a knife (this shot is a zoom in). A young girl is now stuck on the side of a cliff with no harness and 'something' wanting her, this is a typical setting for a teen horror and gets the audience excited to see what will happen. She falls and see's her boyfriends blood covered face and at this point she tries to run. Chase sequences are very popular in teen horror films and using a juttering camera helps the audience to 'feel' the chase. The car is close by as the girl runs to her 'safety' yet it's too far away as she's fallen down due to a razor wire. This is predictable as we all know she won't make it to safety just yet (if ever).
     The music throughout starts off slow yet the tempo soon picks up when danger is lurking. The high pitch of the stringed instruments creates a creepy setting and the regular beats of the drum the increase in volume add tension. Many sounds are enhanced at important points of shots. For example; the rope being cut, the blood drip and thud of her boyfriend falling to the ground.
     The trees rustling is and enhanced noise as something is running behind them which is still unknown and being unknown adds more of a scare to the viewers.