What Lies Beneath

• It opens with what looks like a dark lake which is rippling in the wind - non-diegetic music of string instruments playing - eery.
• Diagonal wipe from top left corner to bottom right corner as a screen transition. It reveals the production companies in white writing, this is against the dark background of the lake.
• Twentieth Century Fox and Dreamworks Pictures - production companies.
• Another screen transition - diagonal wipe from top left corner to bottom right corner to wipe off writing and show the background fully again.
• Image Movers production - there may be diegetic sound of the lake rippling however it is hard to tell.
• Non-diegetic music each time the writing is revealed - wind effect, also sounds like when someone breaths under water or something has been submerged.
• Eery - wipe across screen (screen transition) is like a ghost flickering past the screen.
• Piano and strings - mysterious - chilling feeling.
• Title dissolves in and is written in ripples in the water. - suggests the water/lake is an important part of the storyline.
• Very small amount of percussion.
• Lake rippling dissolves into next clip - which is of underneath the water - suggested by the algi/weeds - the water is very dark - a ray of sunlight/moonlight is revealing parts of what is in front of us.
• String music - tension building.
• Audience may question whether something was in there - a flicker - shadow revealed by the light as camera pans forward.
• Ghostly.
• At the end of the darkness and weeds - there is a dead looking girl in the water - very pale, dark around the eyes, dark hair - contrasting colours. - dissolves in from weeds.
• Build up in non-diegetic music - tense - then cut to woman's face emerging from being underwater in a bath.
• Close-up.
• Cut to long shot - slowly zooming in on woman sitting in bath coughing/spluttering - like she had nearly drowned - suggests drowning is significant to the storyline.
• Cut to hairdryer - woman holding it - camera follows the movement of hairdryer - pans up - woman drying condensation off the mirror in the bathroom.
• Sharp cut to plug socket - she puts her thumb on it.
• Gets a shock - diegetic sound of electric shock/spark - it's emphasised.
• Quickly cut to reaction shot of woman.
• Camera pans across - woman able to dry mirror - get rid of condensation.
• The opening of the film - 2.42 mins long.