Opening Sequence

Both film opening credit are in white writing over a black background. This introduced Claude Lévi-Strauss' theory of binary opposites. This suggests to the audience that there will be both a good side and a bad side against each other. 
 

Both films also use disrupted vision to create suspense in the sequence. One of the shots in Bullet feature a fish eye camera to distort the visual. This creates suspense because the audience needs longer to work out what is going on in the shot; there could be things the audience did not spot because it does not look stereotypical. 

The Sixth Sense uses obstructed visual by having a shelf in front of the camera. This hides part of the set and creates ambiguity in the set. The unknowing of what is behind the shelf creates an increase in tension. 

Neither of the film's follow Tzventan Todorov's theory that films should begins and end in equilibrium. Bullet begins with a fast paces action scene which surprises the audience as they do not expect a film to start with chaos. 

The Sixth Sense uses audience reception theory to skip the equilibrium stage, when the woman begins to breathe quicker and act more agitated the audience picks up on her sense of fear and feels like they should be shared also.