Opeing scene of The Strangers

I analyzed the opening sequence of The Strangers to see how we could edit our completed film to make it look as professional as possible. 

Before you see anything you immediately hear non-diegetic music which sounds eerie and cold. Then on a black screen orange writing appears with a deep chilling voice of man reading it out. Even without seeing one character, the audience can straight away assume that the film is of the horror genre. 

The first sequence of shots are gradually fading long shots of detached houses in the daylight. You can hear a car engine running which shows to the viewer that it may be a P.O.V shot of someone looking out of a window of a moving car. Non-diegetic music is being continuously played through these shots and as they continue to fade in and out of the screen, you can tell that the outside is slowly turning to countryside rather than suburbia. Then you hear a voice of a emergency caller saying '911, what your emergency? '. A woman replies sounding distressed and from the conversation you can tell something bad has happened. As the lady in distress tries to explain where she is there are medium and close ups of blood soaked walls, a blood stained knife and a gun. Some of the medium shots used are filmed with a hand held camera which slightly shakes which can disorientate the audience. It then fades to black and the distressed lady cry's ' There's blood everywhere ' . 

Throughout the clip non-diegetic music is played to create tension and the editing techniques help to set the scene supremely. This is an excellent film which is pretty terrifying. Below is a very good Scene from the film..