Ghost Ship opening scene

This is one of my favorit opening scenes
Link: Ghost Ship opening scene
The film is a horror film that involves ghosts and myths and is also mysterious and was released. In the beginning it is all about what has happened on the ship years before so basically no one in the beginning are a important character except for the little girl how is later a ghost when we see her again.

One thing that is really important to this scene is the music, it really creates the mood of the whole beginning of the movie. They are using different kind of shots, in the beginning there is a helicopter shot to show the position and surroundings and the boat itself. After that there are different kinds of close-up and mid shots used. The camera is giving the little girl privileged of camera time showing that she is one of the important characters and there is even a point of view shot watching the man she is dancing with die.

I like this scene because of the totally unexpected things that is about to happened and that the atmosphere is very different from what you expect it to be in a horror movie. Everything is happy and calm and when then later everybody gets killed it is just really unsuspected.  But what I think is good is that you are in a way not waiting for the action it just comes right away.

This kind of scene would be hard to do with the equipment we have but detail shots and close-ups that there are using is techniques to remember. Also to remember is how important it is depending on which sound you are using and what it does to the audience.