Scream opening

Scream is a classic slasher horror film, with many aspects that make it a noticeable horror film. The film starts with the phone ringing, and a girl (who is home alone) picks it up. These are two massive horror film cliches, as you are never meant to answer the phone in a horror film, and a girl who is home alone is inevitably going to have something bad happen to her. The person who calls the girl asks who it is, and the girl says that you must have the wrong number, and hangs up. The phone then proceeds to ring again, with the same person as before calling again, but the girl hangs up again, and we switch to a long shot of the house, while slowly moving down to show the whole house in the shot. These first few moments really set the scene for the film, as already, we have a girl home alone in a large, mysterious house, with a shady stranger continuously calling her. This effectively creates a sense of foreboding. The mysterious stranger then proceeds to call the girl again as she is making popcorn. He starts to ask her what her faviroute scary movie is, also creating a sense of bad things to come. The girl starts to talk to the stranger as she walks through the house. The camera follows her through the house with a medium shot from behind. When the stranger asks for the girls name again, she asks why, and the stranger says "because i want to know who im looking at" and as he says this, the camera zooms into the girls face with a close up to show her facial expression, and music starts to play to build a sense of tension and suspense.