Genre analysis

• It all starts with a longshot down the corridor, and the gloomy lighting is on the door, this sets the scene for the murder to take place.
• The voiceover stops exactly when the door closes and there is an echo sound to cannote the emptyness.
• There is then a slow pan across the town from a roof top.

SOUND EFFECTS

• Heartbeating.
• Muttering.
• There is also a bulid up to the blow, this will create tension from the auidences point of view.
• You can then hear the blow of the hammer against the nuns head.
• You can then hear the heatbeat beating faster, this cannotes the emotions of the nun and the fact that she is dying.
• There is also more artifical thudding noise to make the reconstruction of the murder seem more real.
• Then there is dog barking to show that the women is alone.
• There is then more rustling and the sound of more stabbing.

It then changes to a point of view shot of the nun, it shows that she is alone and it is at an angle.

• The sound then changes to a slow heartbeat this shows that she is dying.
• It also edits on the beat, this is relgious iconography.

This is done by using very clever film techniques.
It then changes to a graveyard, and there is a ring of a church bell, this signifies death.