The scene opens with an establishing shot over a forest, there is a long road in view. This image suggests a possible entry but as the road does not end this may suggest no escape. The camera then begins to "fall" into the forest, resembeling the idea that you are trapped in the forest. During this very first scene, white credits run over. I feel it is interesting that the titles are white as white is usually used to represent innocence and purtity, although It stands out on the back ground image.
At the start of the opening, there is some music played above the titles. This creates an eerie atmosphere and helps to create that "horror movie" feel. This music runs over the titles and fades out when the characters come into shot, then the main sound is diegetic speech. This music starts to play again when the main male character "disappears", again creating that "horror movie" feel and also adds to the eerie, creepy atmosphere of the film. The music always builds up when tension or fear is built up aswell, the music adds to the suspense of the film.
At the very start of the film a lot of birdseye view shots are used, this helps to establish the environment of the film and shows where it is set.The long shots are usually shot as a low angle or high angle shot. These I feel have been used in order to give the sense of vulnerability as if someone is watching over you. At one point in the opening there were a lot of cuts between the low and high angle shots, this gives the feeling of confusion- which helps make the audience feel part of the film.
The second scene of the film opens with the 2 main characters on the side of a cliff, climbing it. They are shown with a high angel shot, looking down on them. This makes them appear to be very small and . That they are weak and therfore easy targets. Stereotypically the male character is infront of the female character. There are only two characters in the opening of this film, one male and one female. Stereotypically the girl is blonde, wearing pink and "below" the man. When the male dissapears, she is put into the common "Damsel in distress" role and is left vulnerbale without the male character. Like in all horror films male and female stereotypes are followed, having the men shown as strong and protective postions and women in the helpless and vulnerable position. However sometimes this can be broken, in this opening the male character isnt shown to be strong, even though he reaches the top of the cliff first, he seems to be killed very easily by the killer in this film. He is quickly removed from the film without saving the girl or being the "hero".
This film is set in a forest, which is a common converntional setting for a horror film, this setting creates the feeling of isolation which is also a main theme in horror films. Unusually the opening of this film is set during the day, this is very interesting because horror films are stereotypically set at night. Although i do feel that this works well because it gives the impression that even during the day you arent safe.
After this main part of the opening, when the female character has been dragged off into the woods the screen goes black and moves into the main title sequence, the titles are played over jerky, quite disturbing shots of the forest and newspaper articles which talk of disfigured mountain men. Quite music is played over the top of these images. This gives a very mysetrious feel to the scene which is continued with the kery shots- the audiencde cant really understand what is being shown and have to piece it together gradually.
Again white titles are used which stand out agaisnt the dark colours used in the shots. This lasts for around 3 minutes until the film gradually moves back into the story.
Today my good partner in media Kim and her amazing drawing skills set out to complete our story board and here it is, whilst she was doing this I decided too research costume and makeup within the horror genre. 
