IT

This director of this film was Andres Muschetti, this film was produced by the New Line Cinema, Lin pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, KatzSmith Productions.

This opening scene we are introduced to the character George this scene starts with a high angle camera shot, presenting the kid as weak. George is shown to be innocent and a normal kid just having fun outside, also he's a liked person because of the interaction with the other character we are shown which we can assume is the brother. We are also introduced to the evil character who is a clown called 'Pennywise', we can tell he is a normal character also because of his weird and creepy nature, shown also by the tone of his voice. Due to the long screen time, I can tell these are both main characters. The kid also is shown as nieve as he knows he shouldn't talk to strangers, but he stays there anyway and even goes to crab his boat from a supernatural being in a drain. 

Looking at the title of this movie 'IT' I can infer that this will be a film around a character of supernatural being, this being will either be hunted, or be the hunter. Furthermore, I can tell that this character will not be a friend, and will probably be represented to be against humans. This character will possibly be feared,  and have a vendetta against humans. 

The lighting is dark and gloomy showing that something bad is going to happen as well as a scary tone, the kid is also wearing a generic yellow coat which signifies purity and innocence. The boy follows the boat down the stream with intense non-diegetic  music playing in the background until this paper boat goes into the dark manhole. The shot is then focused on the manhole where a character emerges out of nowhere, this appearance is accompanied with a pleonastic loud non-diegetic sound effect, this is in order to create a jump scare, connoting to a horror element. This character wears clown makeup and costume, this clown costume is also very scary and is clearly feared by the little boy. The opening scene ends on the kid reaching for his boat, and then it cuts to bloody righting of it with a loud eerie sound. This opening scene captures the distress and how uncomfortable the kid is talking to him, additionally the tone and slow long camera shots add to the horror tone of the scene.

The setting of this opening scene is shown to be in an American residence, this is shown by the style of the housing, I can also tell this is in the late 80s to 90s because of the models of cars. 

The audience is engaged in this scene due to the suspense that is created from the long scenes, these long scenes make what happens next unpredictable. The opening scenes ending makes the audience want to watch more because of the cliff hanger, it makes us question what's going to happen next, is the boy ok? Does he live? Does he get pulled into the manhole? Furthermore, this opening scene doesn't show us much about the characters which makes us think whats going to happen next. Who will die and who will live... 

From the opening scene I can see that it is a horror genre, this is successful due to the jump-scare and  loud errie noises throughout. Furthermore, I can tell this by the long lasting intense scenes that take place, creating suspense.