The Orphanage: Opening Scene

The Orphanage

Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Writer: Sergio G. Sánchez

In today's lesson we watched theThe Orphanage, which is a 2007 spanish horror film. We watched the opening scene of The Orphanage and analysed the characters, their relationships, genre and location, which we used to try and figure out what the film was about. 

My Analysis on the Opening Scene:

Characters: Laura

• A young girl
  
• Alone
  
• Singled out
  
• Innocent
  
• Wearing old clothing (1940's)

Characters: Old Lady

• Hiding emotions
  
• In charge of orphanage
  
• Don't see her face
  
• Mysterious

Relationships between Characters

• All interact with eachother e.g. playing
  
• All socially friendly towards one another
  
• Old Lady seems to care for Laura

Genre

• Psychological horror film

Location/Setting

• Old historical Orphanage
  
• Spanish countryside, middle of no-where
  
• Garden was surrounded by trees, giving the impression it was closed off to the outside world
  
• A scarecrow, didn't look like the average scarecrow
  
• Tell by the costumes and props that the film is set in the past (1940's)