The Film begins with a non - diegetic phone call between a police officer and a lady. The conversation is placed onto the screen. However, we are not introduced to any characters by seeing their faces. This is affective because it allows the audience to create a picture in their head about what they believe the character on the phone will look like. The non - diegetic sound of her voice on the phone sound slurred and possessed. This therefore prepares the audience for a frightening character within the film and establishes the fact that it is a horror film. The phone call then ends and we are shown what looks like an old fashioned way of recording video with a video tape recorded to show the time that this film is based. The first shot we see is a long shot inside a messy room with a police officer in it. We know he is a police officer due to the clothes he is wearing. Having the Police Officer in this home like this shows us that this is a crime scene and he is talking to the camera for video evidence for whatever they find.
A close up is then shown of a weapon, covered in blood on the floor. By showing this it allows the audience to prepare to see some violence which has been placed on some body using this weapon and the blood gives the effect that someone has been injured. The camera then moves to an arm covered in blood and follows it along the body to a body laying on the floor. A close up shot is used here so we can identify the fact that he is a human and is a male.
The camera then follows the male Police Officer down the stairs to where he then identifies a male and female. Both are wearing some form of religious clothing. This tells us as the audience that the film has something to do with religion or a religious person. Religious people are seen as innocent and kind so when we see that they have been killed, we suspect that whoever killed them had a lot of hate towards either them as a person or their religion.
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