Ghost Ship

                                                 In class we recently analysed the first scene of 'Ghost Ship' and the effects which have been used by the director to grab the audiences attention.
We start of by seeing a lonely isolated boat, which has the connation to the Titanic this use of intertextuality provides the reader with a pre conception that everything is not all it seems. The violin strings unknowingly to the reader foreshadow the wire which kills everyone in this scene. The singer is in a very visual red dress this semiotic has connotations to death and evil foreshadowing the upcoming blood shed she is also elevated from everybody else making her more superior. She also does very vigorous and aggressive hand gestures through her performance again foreshadowing the ending.
The music used in this scene is very upbeat and romantic which diverts the reader from the horror that is about to come. The music then changes to a screeching muffled noise the classic horror film music creating more confusion. The flowers shown in this clip represent life, innocent and beauty and is the only natural object on the boat.
The fast camera movements suggest how things are beginning to spin out of control building the tension. The focus on the wire literally slices the  screen in half. Some points in the slaughter we are with the camera giving a visual effect. There is an deathly silence and a tableau prolonging the tension when finally a wine glass falls breaking the silence creating a dramatic effect. At the end the camera dips back into the water creating a circular structure.