Product Analysis - Hills have eyes 2

Genre

Silent Hill 2 is a horror. We see the typical conventions of genre strait away a woman bound at the wrists and ankles panting and screaming, she is dirty and we see shots of her toe nails which are cracked, dirty and very long this shows how long she has been there for, we then see that she is giving birth without any medication. We then see a very gory shot of the babies head and the child’s hand and then we see the baby ripped from the woman’s womb. This is the start of a very good horror movie and a sequel to a very good horror film.
The audience’s generic expectations are fulfilled using typical conventions of horror such as masses of gore, monsters and death. We see the blood of the birth this is a strange convention of horror as birth is not normally connected with horror normally with romance. We then see the mutant baby being pulled out of the woman and then held by a huge mutant. Then we hear the mutant say “die” in a deep typical mutant voice whilst stabbing in her in the head. These conventions are typical of horror and fulfil the audience’s expectations.
The text conforms to the characteristics of horror it treats the characteristics with the up most respect to the genre. The only part that could be considered playful was the babies image, and how it looks it looked like something you would see in Alien and we see irony used when the soundtrack which is like a nursery song is played.

Film Language

The sequence is shot using dark lighting and washed out this makes the scene scarier as the mise-en-scene of horror films is darkness, as audiences are typically scared of the dark as they don't know what is in it. We don't see any clothes as the girl is naked in the scene, however her skin is dirty and her toenails are long and cracked, however this is still typical of the mise-en-scene. We see the hilt of a knife and ropes that are used to tie the woman down with. These are typical weapons used in horror films. These all add to the texts meaning and the horrific pain the woman is going through and the the fear the scene is meant to convey. The director has tried to make the audience feel the pain the woman is in and how difficult it is for her.
The close up of the woman's feet show how long she has been there and that she hasn't been washed in ages. This is also shown when we have a mid to close up of her face to see the agony and we see her greasy hair her discoloured teeth and her dirty sweaty face. We wee a close up of the baby coming out of her vagina this is to show the size of the baby and how gory the birth was without anaesthetic and medical assistant. All the shots are very close to the action as this shows how small the room is and to feel close to the character.
The use of sound in this scene is very effective as we see the credits with strange one note high pitched instruments over a very resonating deep sound this we then see the woman screaming and then the sounds very slowly fades up to hear her screaming and panting, starving the ear will bring the ear. This is very true of this scene as we we have more time to study her face whats going on and we do see more thing than we would if we had sound. The opening soundtrack is very spooky it is very much like a child's lullaby this adds to the tension and suspense of the scene. We hear panting and screaming which adds to the pain and pity the audience has towards this character and especially the female audience that have felt this pain. We also here the birth of the baby and the sounds of the squelching and squishing. Then the mutant killer says die in a deep resounding threatening way and then scene ends.

Narrative

The audience is always in the action this makes the audience feels closer to thee character and also is a bit like the first person of the killer.
We see the woman has been bound and kept there for a long time with shots of ropes her toenails and her skin, this shows that she has been raped which we see in the previous movie we then see a close up of her mouth which is chapped and bloody which also implies she has been there for a long time. We know that she has been there for at least nine months and find out why later on in the movie. Although we don't see the second character, the mutant, we see from the clip that he does not care for the girls feelings or her pain, he rips the child from her and shows it to her by grabbing the child by the neck he then kills her.
The tension is created using sounds dark lighting and violence. We know something is going to happen we know that the woman will die because of the dark lighting and violence. The major themes of this sequence is the horrific birth of a child this is ironical represented as child birth is usually shown as a beautiful thing but in this scene it is a horrible representation of birth.

Representation & Ideology

There are two social groups shown here the innocent and the murderer. The innocent pregnant rape victim and the huge looming deep voiced mutant is the badly.

Media Audiences

The target audience is 18 to 40 year old as the certificate is 18 as it contains explicit sexual content, heavy violent episodes, extremely bad language and gory scenes. The characters range up to the ages of 40. The most probable reading will be intended reading this is because the audience doesn't watch a horror to be amused or informed. I also read this text intently although as i am not a female and i have not gone through the pain of childbirth so i do not have a direct personal conection with the woman.