The opening to the clip starts off with a close up shot of two detailed china tea cups on a little wooden table. As we then see the teapot being lifted and poured into the tea cups we see not actual liquid being poured which connotes that some kind of role play by a girl or girls is being performed. As the teapot is placed on the ground we see a close up of a dolls face wit non- diegetic playing quietly in the background playing at a low volume allowing you to hear the china when it clunks together. All of this creates a mysterious feeling about the girls and to what's about to happen as it fits in well with the music and the blank expression of the dolls faces.
We are shown three innocent young looking girls wearing pretty frilly dresses which infer to the audience that this may of been set in a different era, this also fits in nicely with the music sounding old fashioned. We see the girls playing together and smiling making the audience wonder why this mysterious, creepy music is being played a the girls look so innocent and happy. Through mise-en-scene the girls look well looked after as their hair is neatly presented with pretty bows and their dresses and shoes in a clean and tidy condition showing perfection as see them doing to their dolls whilst they brush their hair and sort out their dresses.
The non-diegetic music gets louder all of a sudden playing the sound of chime bells, creating a sense of something being there which is effective as it makes the audience wonder what it is. The conventions of a stereotypical horror film fit in well as the girls are shown to be in a dull room with things such as china dolls, rocking horses and tea sets which are sometimes used in horror films. Other things such as the slow paced mysterious music is played creating tension and the feeling of someone either watching the girls of being in that room. As the bells start ringing the girls start to slowly turn their heads towards the camera making it seem like they are looking straight at you with a blank expression on their faces, which contrasts their facial expressions of only a few moments ago of them looking happy. As the camera gets closer to the girls they then turn their heads the other way where we are show three windows. The girls walk over towards the windows being followed by the camera with the use of slow paced editing creating an effect of them being followed or someone walking with them. Close up shots of the girls feet are shown, crushing the china tea set and dolls, these actions contrast the way they were acting towards the dolls at the beginning as they were caring towards the dolls as if they were important to them, so this makes the audience believe that someone must be telling them to do this.
A mid-shot of the girls are shown standing in line with the three windows which leads the audience to think the worst of them jumping out the windows as there is one window allocated to each individual girl making you think that someone has planned this. The way the girls have done everything synchronised makes them look robotic an creepy as if someone s controlling them as you would do with a robot. The music builds up as they open the windows and then slows down to build up tension before they jump, and as they do it goes silent until you hear a diegetic sound of what's to be believed the mother screaming as you hear her cry "my babies!" the clip then ends with an over the shoulder shot of a 'women in black' relating to the title.
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