The Ring - The scene opens with a wide shot of the living room and a man is standing in the centre staring at the TV as its making a loud noise, the screen appears to look static, he gets a hold of the remote to switch it off then the room falls silent.
He drops the remote on the couch and the camera shot changes to being in front of him and as he’s walking towards the camera on his way out to leave the room he suddenly stops walking when he hears the TV turn back on, the camera shot is a close-up of his face in a pull focus as the background is blurry to keep our attention on his facial expression as we see his face turn into a worried look and then he turns his head around to look back at the TV the camera technique used here is that the camera lens turns the blurry background into a clear view then blurs the man’s head showing that the TV has grabbed our attention.
A non-diegetic soundtrack begins playing and the music is quite sinister and menacing which is used in a lot of horror films to build anticipation in a negative way as the music is building up tension so we know that we are waiting for something to happen. The camera cuts to a close-up of the television screen to reveal a low quality image of a forest with a well in the middle of the field the colour of the image is tinted blue, and the colour blue is used to represent/symbolize depression and sadness.
Camera cuts to his frightened face then suddenly an ambient noise of the telephone ringing which the camera cuts to then zoom towards the phone. The camera cuts to a different location of a woman on the phone which shows us who’s calling he guy in his house and as the phone is ringing while she waits for the guy to answer the phone she says worriedly “Pick up the phone, Noah, Come on, pick up” showing she’s desperate to talk to him and her worried tone suggests she’s trying to alert/warn him about something.
Then the scene cuts back to the living room and the camera shot is pointing at the TV from a low angle, the camera begins to move back away from the TV, then the man that we now know is named Noah walks into frame and in front of the camera but we can only see his legs while he’s standing in front of the TV.
The phone begins to ring again but this time Noah pays no attention to the phone as he’s staring at the TV, the camera shot is now an extreme close up of the well on the TV which we see a long black haired female emerging from the well, camera cuts to the his face revealing how horrified he’s becoming as he focuses on the TV. We then see a gruesome creepy looking girl with long black hair covering her face, the camera keeps on cutting from a shot to his face then the TV screen then back again to his face, and again to the TV showing that he is disturbed by this eerie looking video of the girl approaching closer to the screen.
The scene cuts to someone driving, a loud ambient noise of car tires screeching which was used to startle us watching, the person driving fast and recklessly through traffic is the woman that was previously phoning ‘Noah’, camera shot changes to a close-up of her face while she’s on the phone shouting “Come on, Noah! Pick up the goddam phone.”
Scene cuts back to Noah sitting in front of the TV, then when the camera changes to a shot of the TV, we can now see the female that had previously come out of the well is now right up close to the screen, water starts to leak out the television screen which is then followed by her coming out of the TV. This startles Noah which instinctively makes him try to get away from her, he pushes himself to slide across the floor, then the camera shot switched back to a side profile of the demonic girl showing us clearly how her body is coming out from the TV screen and she makes her way crawling towards him.
We then see him stumbling to get up but keeps his attention on the girl and can’t seem to look away even though he is petrified. The girl then stands up and we see a clear shot of her, her height suggests she is young because she’s quite short and the white long dress she’s wearing has rips and dirt all over it which suggests that she has not been treated well.
Once she’s on her feet she disappears then reappears right in front of Noah which shocks him causing him to fall backwards knocking down a metal shelf stand which shatters glass that makes him bleed as we see a close up of his hand with cuts and blood seeping out.
It ends with a close up of her head with her black hair covering her face but as she tilts her head up it reveals her gruesome pale face showing her angry facial expression, then the camera does an extreme zoom into her pale blue eyes, then cuts to Noah helplessly bleeding and screaming on the floor which indicates that he will get attacked by the girl.
