Lights Out Opening Scene Analysis

The scene begins off with the title of the film presented in a spooky genre in order to match the genre. Along with this, non-diegetic sinister music can be heard to again reveal the genre of the film and perhaps create tension for the audience. The use of low level lighting, and portions of darkness can be noticed throughout the majority of the scene. This helps to set the scene and add to the effect of thinking something bad is going to happen. As the women is walking down the dark hallway and suspects something is there, only ambient sounds can be heard acting as a form of silence leading the audience expecting a fright, this technique is also used at a different point of the scene. Enhanced sound effects are also used thoroughly within the scene, for example the turning on and off of the light switch as well as the woman's heavy breathing. The rest of the scene has slow non-diegetic music playing throughout, building up a sense of nerves until the end when it turns loud in order to shock the audience.