Horror Genre 'Carrie'

At the very start of ‘Carrie’ you can clearly see who the definite main character of this movie is. She kind of looks a bit younger than most of the girls that play the sport. The reason I see this girl to be one of the main characters is because obviously she is named after the film but also because of how she gets picked on because she isn’t very good at the sport. In this film you have the typical teenage blonde girl and she is socially withdrawn from everyone else within the school.

Age seems a massive factor within this opening scene because most of the girls definitely look older than her by a couple years. You get that dominate feel with how the older ones treat the younger ones poorly when they should really be setting an example. The teacher comes running out to see a riot of girls picking on Carrie. This shows age because you can see the potential older girls picking on her but with the teacher being older than them all and instantly going to help Carrie out.

 

Camera Angles: You get a lot of different camera angles within this opening sequence at the very start you get the birds eye view camera shot which really sets the whole scene of the opening sequence. It then forms into a moving shot through the girls changing rooms. After what you see on the volley ball pitch where the girl is singled out and bullied, it shows all the friendship groups and how much they are ‘loving’ life; plus you see how comfortable they are with showing each other their bodies.  Then you get to see Cassie how she is all alone trying to mind her own business. You get different shots with her body which again shows her to be the main character of the whole film. Then some disaster happens and the whole scene just breaks into her getting unfortunately getting bullied again. You get a dramatic instant camera shot at the light which the bulb seems to pop, this can give an indication of worse to come when she gets scared and this camera shot also would hook the viewer within my opinion.

 

Editing: When Carrie is under a lot of stress because of the disaster (finding out she’s on her period) the girls start to bully her because she wasn’t prepared for the circumstance. This also gives an indicator that the girls are older than her showing more dominance. The teacher runs out to help her and to tell the girls to stop what they are doing. At this point they are quite and you get a dramatic high pitched noise (which many movies have used before) and the light bulb just pops. This is creates a dramatic feeling and good easily hook the viewer to find out what happens next as it seems that she has some sort of power.

 

Mise en scene: With the first Camera view it instantly sets the scene and you can see that they are outside in a volley ball court at some sort of high school. They are all wearing the same kit as they obviously go to the same school. With the way they dress you can tell that this film is a very old film and the way their hair is you get that instinct feeling that it is a olden times film, but also how the teacher treats all the girls. This is because the teacher slaps carrie to get her out of her uncontrollable state to allow her to calm her down while towels and other items are being thrown at her.  

 

Sound: The music played within the opening scene is quite uplifting for some reason even though you can see that the main character is under stress and possibly depression the way she is treated on her volley ball team. With the music you get kind of feel some kind of symphony for this girl how she gets singled out and left all by herself. When the camera is moving around you don’t hear anything over the sound of the music, but you get the sound in your head of joy, this includes them shouting and screaming plus laughing with joy. This is quite creative how they haven’t implemented those sounds but you still actually hear them in your head.




The first scene is from 00:00 - 06:27