M. Night Shyamalan's Sixth Sense Opening Sequence

In the opening sequence of Sixth Sense, the key
factor in creating the "supernatural" climax is the music. The mysterious classic/ drama tune is playing all the way through, slowly appearing, stretching credits, on a pitch black background. The song on its own is indicating the climax of the film, it's a rather dark, mysterious theme tune. Right at the start of the credits, after the main producers credits and main actor's credits, the title of the film appears. After the appearance of the title, theme tune is disrupted with odd worrying noise (sounding as if someone or something disrupted the song ...) , playing with sound/ music in this way can automatically make the audience assume the film will  be full of worrying, intense, mysterious moments.


The music doesn't stop right until the credits fade out and the light bulb in the first shot of the first scene fully switches on. Slow ignition of the bulb calms down the theme song, until it fully fades out. The first scene is based in a cellar. The second shot after shot of the bulb, is taken from behind of the wine shelf, a woman walks down

stairs and approaches the wine shelf. The camera is tracking her movement as she bends down to look for particular wine bottle, and as she stands 

back up staright to reach the bottle she was looking for. Camera zooms in a little after she picks her bottle, showing her reaction to something she felt or heard behind her, putting a little bit of tension and suspicion in the scene. The shot changes, as she turns round, frames the woman knees up, from side, showing her worrying reaction to whatever she heard/ felt behind her.

The shot changes, into a long shot, taken from behind of the cellar stairs. The woman is stood up straight holding the bottle tight, looking stil round for couple of secons as if she heard someone, shivers, and runs out of the cellar as if something/ someone scared her.  The combination of the shots used in this scene make the audience feel like there is another character/ person in the cellar. The slow and careful tracking shot as the woman is picking the wine is made to look like there is someone is observing her, the zoom in on her face experssion as she hears/ feels something behind her, the quick reaction shot as she turns round, and then she runs up the stairs and out of the cellar. The entire first scene already makes the audience anticipate something worrying, mysterious, abnormal.