The Skeleton Key
The genre is not very established, but from the conventions used within the first two minutes you get the impression it could be a thriller/ adventure/ drama. Western music is playing, which suggests not entirely based in the city which is where the hospital is located, so perhaps a location more quiet. Also set in a hospital/ hospice, which suggests the film might involve deaths and the theme of loneliness. The lighting isn't dull which can be associated with deaths, it is natural lighting which is quite bright, which tells the audiece it isn't going to be gruesome deaths. Within the first two minutes the cuts are mainly to Kate Hudson, which shows the audience that she is going to be the main character. Kate Hudson is known for starring in romantic comedy films so for her to be starring in a film including death is a change for her, unless romance is brought into it. But within the first two minutes there are no indications that romance will be involved because there is no cross cuts to other characters to suggest romace is involved in this film. The audience finds out that loneliness and isolation is the theme within this film, they find this out by the cuts to the patients in the hospice who are lonely and on their own. When one of the patients cry, Kate Hudson takes their belongings out to the bin where there are three other boxes already in there. This shows that the previous people that have died have had no family there to claim it, so shows the theme of being isolated and unwanted.