At the start of the opening the audience is thrown straight into action, as the camera comes in media res. We then have a shot reverse shot between the two characters. That’s when we first get the idea that the film is in the horror genre, the mise en scene of the women is indicating that she is not who she says she is. The lady has red hair, and stereo-typically red heads are feisty, she also has pale skin which indicates that she doesn't get much sun light, which could indicate that she is a vampire.
Whilst they were in the car in editing technique shot reverse shot was used to portray the emotion on each of their faces. The women looked extremely mysterious and almost excited to have the man with her in the car (we later find out that she was seducing him) , the expressions on the gentleman’s face conveys excitement.
In addition, all the credits are in a bold font and coloured red, which represents danger, this indicates to the viewer that something bad is going to happen. The credits run through the entirety of the opening minutes.
The camera then goes to a tracking shot, it tracks from a distance the
two characters walking through a factory of pig caucuses. The camera tracks
them from a distance as in-between the camera and the characters are the caucuses
of pigs, this is indicating that something bad is going to happen to the man.
It is also very weird to be walking through a factory at night, we know it’s
night time because of the car scene. We then get a shot of a man working, he
has a cold colour pallet which represents death. There is then a shot which
shows the man looking at something, but the audience don’t see what it is until
he turns around, before there is a medium long shot you hear the man say
"What the fuck is that" which is diegetic sound. We then get a medium long
shot to show that in the plastic bag that originally blocked the audience’s
view, is filled with dead bodies. This tells the viewer that something dodgy is
going on with the women.
To make the opening fit with the horror genre even more, we get a long shot, to show the viewer a very large man standing next to the door. The 'bouncer' is taller than the door which is very intimidating and you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him. The man on the door is again very pale skinned, also in dark clothing and you could argue that he is attractive. With these characteristics he again can be compared to a vampire.
The next piece of diegetic sound is when the women yell's at the 'bouncer', she shouts at him in a different language and we as the audience can only assume, she is speaking in a Eastern European language because of the accent. Vampire's are stereotypically from Transylvania, which is in Romanian, this again is hinting at the viewers that these people are actually vampires.
The door then opens into darkness and the mise en scene completely changes, the lighting becomes very club like, bright and flashing, the sound gets extremely louder and a montage of people in the club comes onto our screens. Its becomes very blurry on the people in the club and only focuses on the typical american boy that is being suduced by these vampires. We then see a man who is sitting with two girls and having a fun time, this conveys to the viewer that these vampires don't think they have rules and they do what they want.
All of the characters in the club are in white clothing preparing for the blood to come down, we see a women dancing and we get non-diegetic sound, as it sounds like she is moving but we don't see it, this again is hinting that they are vampires as vampires move quicker than the speed of light. When the women is dancing it has been edited, to make it slow-motion, this sexualises the women dancing as you are foucused on her moving. As the American man walks through the crowd of people we see them looking at him, they look at him like he is a piece of meat and they want to eat him, this also conveys to the viewer that these people aren't human beings.
We then focus on the American man, we see blood drop onto his hand, at first he isn't aware that it is blood, but then he tastes it and you see his facial expression change and he looks very worried. We then see all the people in the club are starting to raise their hands up to the roof, and you only see the hands behind the man.This is to show the audience that something will be coming down from the celling, before the hands go up we get a close up shot of blood falling from the ceiling so as viewers we assume blood will be coming don from the ceiling. In addition, behind the DJ, there is a big sign saying 'Blood Bath' this also illustrates that, it is something to do with blood and there is going to be a lot of it, hence the word 'Bath'.
The camera then focuses on what looks like a tap, we then get a shot of many tap's on the celling of the building. Blood then starts to be sprayed out of these tap's all of the abnormal people are embracing the 'Blood Bath' but the human man looks extremely scared and then we get lots of diegetic sound of animal noises as these people aren't human. 
We get a point of view shot, from the man, he then gets punched in the face and we see him on floor so its been edited to show him hitting the floor. Whilst, he is on the floor he is being punched and kicked and only stops crawling when he reaches the feet of an unknown man. We see the big black combat boots, and then the man on the floor looks up at the man in the boots but we as the audience don't seee him. It then cuts to the blood tap stopping and the then the camera pans up the man, but stops at his chest we then get the reaction of the DJ then all the people covered in blood moving out of the way of the man in black so the audince can see him. The tone of the club changes and all of the people in the club look frightened to see this man, which conveys to the audience he is a man in power the protagonist. 
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