The Grudge

In class we got put into groups and got set a task of doing a presentation on a horror film showing all the key conventions of it. One group done a presentation on the The Grudge, the people in this group was Hannah Edwards, Zak Rodgers and Van Abner.
The opening scene reminds the audience what they are viewing which is a horror genre as there are drops of blood which could resemble death. With this there is also dramatic music (non-diegetic) which is iconic as it goes with the effect of blood as the background There is also hair flowing through the opening credits which makes the audience know the film that they are viewing is the Grudge.
The first couple of scenes that appear in the opening are the credits that are mainly off the actors and crews but are surrounded by blood which makes the viewers feel tense and uneasy and then the background changes to red which could represent death, danger, also the font of the credit language makes the audience know it is set in Japan which could mean they could get background information on what it is about and the story line.
There is a close up shot of the pale girl with wet hair which could make the audience feel uneasy and sorry for her as she looks so innocent and vulnerable. The next scene is a flash back which involves a fight scene involving the girl and man which the audience presume that it is her father, when he then breaks her neck. The viewers feel very sorry for the girl as it shows her innocence and vulnerability again. After this there are violent and disturbing scenes on the man killing his son and a cat, this creates the audience to become uneasy and to dislike the character of what he has committed so far in this film.
The flash back stops and is back in the present day, we know this by the long shot type of  the house. It is not a pleasant, homely house with chains around the gate which shows that nobody should ever go past and enter this house. There is then a trademark of the attack which the film 'Grudge' is most famous for. This is the girl who got her neck broken slowly creeping down the stairs  then showing the audience her killing people. This completely narrows out any sympathy the audience ever had of this girl and starting to dislike her character for knowing what she has done.