My Bloody Valentine - Intro Analysis (1981) $2.3m - George Mihalka

So the Intro starts with one paramount ident and goes striaght in with titles over two miners walking through a mine shaft. The constumes look quite ominous and scary. There is polysemy as to who these people actually and why they are in the mine shaft in the first place. There are lots of low dutch angles used to increase the tension and you feel the suspense is builing up to something. The mineshaft also gives a clotrophopic and isolated feel. 


Then one of the miners starts to take there boiler suit off to actually reveil she is a woman and that they may be in the mineshaft for a sexual liaison. There is a type of false scare where the miner who we still dont know appers to swing and the woman with the pick axe however is only sticking it in the wall. This gives the impression of the pick axe has some weight behind it and is not just a foam object or similar. Titles continue however the first miner still hasnt taken there mask of so we become quite suspicious. The woman involved is also blonde and obviously sexually active which is an instant indicator of what is going to happen. The first miners hand starts to shake and suddenly pushes the woman onto the pick axe in the wall which stabs through her and the camera pans into her screaming mouth and the title scene commences.