The Ring Opening Two Minutes Review

The film 'The Ring' is a mainstream physchological horror film, directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Naomi Watts who also starred in 'Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering', Daveigh Chase who also starred in 'Haunted Lighthouse', and Martin Henderson who also starred in 'Torque'.
This film includes many clichés such as: Watching a Video or a DVD with your friends or by yourself that is eerie or scary in some way, having the phone ring after watching the scary movie as the main character at that point of the film would be clearly shaken and prone to jumping at the slightest noise, the phone call after they answer it could go down two paths-the first being that it was a false alarm and that it was either their parents, boyfriend or best friend calling, or that it's the villain of the film warning them, which is when the music would normally start to go towards either bass/treble increasing or a violin giving us that suspense feel to up the anticipation. In the opening two minutes i believe that it does tease the audience a bit in the beginning by the two girls having the conversation about the video which then one admits to watching the week prior, as this film is so largely well known we all know the '7 Days' call- when the girl calls the house of the victim and informs them that they have seven days to live then on the seventh, they die. This situation however is different as we don't know the girl and we're not sure what's going to happen yet in the film, what we do know however is that she had watched the tape and that she had had a phonecall on the same day, a week ago. The audience is now paying specific attention to the girls facial expressions as it gives away a lot, her fear is the main thing the audience picks up and so tension is building already without any sort of music in the background, this is a clever technique used in many films. There's always a twist in films and we've encountered the first, the fact that one of the girls was talking about the 'tape' and then her friend had watched the 'tape' a week prior to that day, this short clip shows how teens are stereotyped as being stupid, vunerable and sneaky.
There is however a moment of relief for the audience once the house phone is answered, the friend of the girl who watched the tape answers and tricks her friend that it's the girl, but in actual fact it's her mum, typical teen playing pranks on their friends. What happens afterwards however is when tension starts to build as the girl who our focus is on, is left in the kitchen by herself on the phone, the camera angles cut off half the room when she's moving around so the audience is expecting to see the girl once the camera angle changes back to view the whole room, you now as an audience member start to think 'what's going to happen next?' the anticipated feeling and tension is now on small and slight cliffhangers, the tension builds for a bit and then the audience is relieved by having what the audience expected, gone.
Sounds in the kitchen scene are over exaggerated so the audience is paying close attention to the surroundings, so then when the TV turns on by itself the audience automatically wants the main character at that point to investigate as they're intrigued.