Saw - Opening Sequence

As the film opens we see the funders of the film, these are shown with disturbing noises to give an impression on how the film is going to be almost horrific. After these funders are shown we see the producers of the film this gives some people an idea of how the film is going to be as they may have already seen a film produced by them before. These producers name are in white on a black background so the audience has no idea of how the opening the sequence is going to begin. While these titles are on these is a diegetic sound of water moving, giving us the impression that someone is moving somewhere in water either outside or inside. We then get shown light being moved around water looking like it is shone over a mans face with his eyes closed giving us the impression that he is dead, the title of the movie then comes up to add more mystery to what we have just seen.

After we have seen the title it disperses like water would down a plug whole as it slowly starts to break up and twist. We then get brought back to the light in the water as it moves around we get a sudden burst of the man opening his eyes and gasping for breath as he pulls himself out of the water. He constantly keeps coughing suggesting to us that he has been under the water for some time. We then get a close up of the light being sucked down the plug hole suggesting that it is a keep prop. When the man is out of the bath he gets up and walks into the corner holding a chain attached to his leg denoted by the synchronous sound of chains clinging. The man then screams out for help, then asks if there is anyone there. We can see he is in the dark and from the dialogue we can also connote that he does not know what is going on or were he is. He then says I'm probably dead and straight after we hear a voice saying your not dead. We can connote the man is scared, denoted by the way he quickly spins round and shouts "Who's that?". We then realise the voice is in the same position as the man because he does not know why they are here either.

As the scene progresses the voice says "I think found something", we then get a booming sound for every light that turns on, to emphasise the surprise it is having on the man and also to emphasise the brightness of the light to the man to the audience using sound. We then get a creepy score being played as the mans vision becomes clear to help highlight groosum place he is in. We then get medium close ups of the two men to show the horror one their faces and to show their outfits and how dirty they are connoting they have been through a bad experience before they reached this place. The man we see in chains has short black hair looks quiet young and not in a family. He looks like an ordinary man which leads the audience to wonder why is he here. The second man has medium short hair he is wearing a shirt connoting he is a working man and he looks like he is in his late thirties connoting he has a family with a wife and kids. He also looks ill maybe even drugged, this connotes that it could be how he got here without knowing were he is.

We then gets a mysterious score as the blonde mans eye sight adjusts revealing the other man in the other corner of the room staring back at him. The score then dramatically changes and as this happens we see the men look at the floor in the centre of the room which we cannot see. We then get a paning shot going down away from the dark haired man to a medium close up of a man laying on the floor in a puddle of blood with his half of his blown off. The camera then spins up iron a birds eye view to show the whole mans body with the score getting louder. It then quickly cuts to close ups of the mans head, a tape player in his hand and a gun in the other hand connoting that he killed himself with the gun and what was on the tape was the reason. The two men go to approach the body and then realise that they are chained. The man with the dark hair screams as he trys to break the chain by pulling it, connoting he is stressed and scared that what happened to the dead body on the floor is going to happen to him. The scene then ends with a long shot of the man sitting in the corner and the dead body laying on the floor 0f a dirty place which is connoted to be deserted.