The Orphanage

The opening of this film is at a very slow pace. We see main 3 characters, the adopted child and his two carers, they're based in an Orphanage where we see children happily playing, suggesting childlike innocence and also a contrast to the horror genre. The lighting for most scenes are low key, supporting the conventions of a horror movie, this also makes the house look mysterious and allows the audience to assume all the events will take place there. This opening is very relaxed and does not show massive signs of being a horror movie, this could be because they have chosen to 'slowly let the audience in' to the horror later on in the movie.