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Title: Carrie

Year: 1976

Certificate: 18

Director: Brian De Palma

Starring: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie and Amy Irving

The establishing shot is a birds-eye view of a group of girls playing volleyball. The clothes they’re wearing dictate that they’re in school, presumably in a PE lesson. The sound here is diagetic, the sound of a whistle and the girls talking and cheering to one another.
The camera then pans in an arc, down to a mid-shot of one girl- Carrie- whose uniform doesn’t fit her as well as the other girls, and whose general appearance is a lot scruffier, immediately placing her as an outcast. The dialogue as the girls call to her further highlights that she is the outcast, as they state that she’ll  blow the game.
The shot stays mid-shot as the rest of the girls’ cross through, pushing or hitting Carrie, who has hair in her face and constantly tucks it behind her ear whilst the other girls are tidier.

The scene then jump-cuts to a shot of the girls changing room, the sound here being asynchronous non-diagetic, as it plays a soundtrack instead of voices. Only the people nearest the camera are visible, as the rest are obscured by steam. The shot is marginally in slow-motion, as the camera pans across the aisles of the room, showing the class in various states of undress as they shower and change. They are all laughing to one another and throwing clothes around, showing a sense of camaraderie between them.  The shot continues to pan to the far end of the room, where the steam is more prominent and difficult to see far through. Here the camera begins to pan forwards, past some girls and onto a figure obscured by a wall of steam, presumably Carrie. This establishes that she is the outcast of the film, as she is alone in a room full of people.

In this clip, the features of a horror movie established are the stereotypical protagonist, who is usually an outcast and looking to seek either acceptance or revenge on their fellow classmates.