Orphan is a 2009 American horror and thriller film directed by Jaumme Collet-Serra, starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Furhman in the title role. The film centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious 9-year old girl.
The movie starts with the iconographic Warner Bros.Pictures label, However, it's not in the traditional gold format, instead it's been edited using the 'negative' photography effect which inverts the colours, it's now U.V coloured blue and pink, this creates an ominous start.
The movie title 'Orphan' has also been edited in an interesting way; at first it appears to be a simple, basic title but seconds after a music sting is used and the title changes to the U.V colours previously mentioned to emphasis the eeriness. The title is also symbolism for the plot which is a different person hiding underneath a fake person.
After the opening sequence the movie fades in from white to a blurred clip of a couple, this has been done to show it's a flashback from the past. The Non-Diegetic soundtrack played throughout the flashback also heightens the suspense of the opening.
A high angle shot looking down on the woman makes her character seem vulnerable, the fact the she is also being pushed in her wheelchair because she in pregnant makes her seem even more insecure.
There is then a close up shot of her bleeding from the wheelchair, it's quite grotesque which suggests to the audience this is going to be a gruesome film, because there is blood we automatically judge this to be a horror as blood is convention used in them.
I feel that the opening of this film is very effective; straightaway it's conveying the genre to the audience through the suspense in the music and the gruesomeness of the blood.
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