The Purge opening scene

The very first screen shown in the opening sequence of the purge is a dark basic blank picture with the company which made the film. The dark colour gives the audience a first impression about the film, they find out that it is an adult film aimed at an older audience rather than other audiences e.g. children. However the audience are still kept in the dark as they still have no idea on what is going on.

The next screen which follows the first one shows a CCTV like footage of a violent gun shot scene. During the scene there is only non-diegetic sound splaying, there is an upbeat theme tune type music in playing tin the background, this is a complete contrast to what is going on in the gun crime scene, it makes the audience feel quite eerie and makes them uncomfortable watching the clip.

The following scene is a very violent scene, more than the previous ones. It is still CCTV footage and it shows a gang of people shooting at each over. At the bottom left of the screen features a text watermark saying “PURGE FEED”, this makes the audience question the film as they think if this is what the purge is like. The scene is dark and poor quality footage like the other scenes featured, this would make the audience more tense as it looks like it is real footage and not fake it would make them more gripped into the film too. The date featured on the watermark is set in the future when the film was released, this could make the audience scared as they know that this can happen.

The following scene automatically makes the audience distressful, it features a woman who is crouching over in blood looking like she is in pain. It adds to the mise-en-scene giving an eerily vibe and adding dramatic tension to the audience, yet with this the audience still do not know the actual title of the film or even what these clips mean and how they relate to the film