Halloween opening analysis

Music is used to great effect in the opening scene. An example of this is when mike is looking at his sisters window and the lights goes out. This is used as a trigger for a eerie high pitched non-diegetic note to start playing. This is then built up by a creepy song. This is effective as it puts the audience on edge as they know that something bad is about to happen.
The entire opening scene, except for the very end is shot using a POV shot. It is the POV of Mike Myers, a child in the opening scene that is the psychotic murderer in the film. This use of the POV is effective as the audience cannot see who they are following until the end when a medium shot is used to show that mike is a child. His face is expressionless and his eyes are staring forward. This make the audience think that he might have been possessed by an evil spirit. They might think this because young children are not normally thought of as violent characters, so this comes as a shock when it is revealed. Mike is wearing a clown costume and mask. This is to make him seem less innocent and more sinister. This is
because many people have a phobia of clowns.
As mike is climbing the stairs to go and stab his sister, the clock chimes in the background producing a diegetic sound. This is a countdown till death, signaling that his sister's time is up.