The sixth sense.

The sixth sense analysis (Shyaman, 1999, US).

In the opening titles they have a black background with blue text that fades to white. The black background may represent death as the film is about death and the afterlife. The black may also represent a sense of isolation, danger and fear of the unknown as you cannot see in the pitch black and you can feel uneasy when your in the complete dark. The font is in serif, which is quite a serious font, the blue fading to white may represent danger as blue and white are seen as quite cold colours. This could represent the loneliness the woman feels when she's down in the cellar. These titles are accompanied with an unsettling sound, the sound makes the audience feel quite wary of what might happen next. when the title 'The Sixth Sense' comes on to the screen there is the classic horror film orchestral shrill. this keeps the audience alert and intrigued with the film as they want to know what will happen in the film.

In the mise en scene they place the camera behind the wine rack in the cellar. this gives the impression that the woman who has come down in the cellar to look at wine is being watched from behind the wine rack, she then hears something and the camera starts to track in towards her face to intensify her facial expressions and concern that someone is there. This makes the audience feel a sense of uncertainty as they don't know if the woman will be under any threat or if she will walk away unharmed. In the editing they have edited it so it has a slow pace. They have done this to add emphasis on the fact that someone may be watching the woman, where as if the pace had been quickened it would have lost all sense of drama and danger.

In the cinematography they have used a wide shot of the woman turning around to look at where the noise she herd was coming from. They have used this shot to show the size of the cellar and how old and dusty it looks. This shows the audience the scale of the cellar there living in. In the mise en scene they have use low key lighting to show a sense of danger in the cellar.

In this image, they have used an extreme close up on the light bulb. They have used an old fashioned bulb and a rusty light fitting and no lampshade to show that wherever this light bulb is, its in an isolated place that a normal person wouldn't go. The lack of homely feeling in this scene is made to make the audience feel unsettled and inquisitive about why they have used an old light bulb and why they had used it in the first scene. You don't see the link between the light bulb and the next few scenes until the woman is in the cellar and there is a wide shot of her and you can see why they have used the exteme close up of the light bulb as those light bulbs are in the woman's cellar and you can see that it's not an inviting place. The extreme close up automatically grabs the audiences attention as it leads them to ask a lot of questions.