MD-Shot by Shot analysis

High angle Establishing shot- 0-5 Shows the garden at the back of a house. It suggests that it is a family house due to use of props like the swing. It also suggests to the audience that it is an isolated, rural location with the audience being able to get a glimpse at the back of the garden a crop. Silence is used throughout this opening sequence to create anticipation.

Reverse zoom-6.10 The reverse zoom is used to show that the audience is being positioned from inside the house and creating a continuous editing technique. The view is quite enigmatic as it does not show or introduce a protagonist to the action which is exploited to link into the genre. Silence is used to reinforced this also creating a frustrated audience who try and anticipate the next scene.

Close up 11-15 A cross cut is used to take us to another part of the house. A close up of a family picture is shown. This prop is very cleverly exploited as part of the mise-en-scene and genre as it reinforce the conventions of the genre ask it prompts the audience to look at the picture as a whole. This is later in the scene shown more importance as it implies how important the father figure is the family suggesting that the other personnel are more vulnerable. Throughout this shot not sound is played which accumulates even more tension to the scene.

Close up Pan upwards Shallow focus-16-21 The heaving breathing and springs of the mattress finally break the silence but tension is continued as the close up hinders the view of the audience who are unable to see why the man has woken up. However, the previous evokes a sense of discomfort and hint at a foreboding threat especially with the link from the use of the picture in the previous shot. Dull lighting intensifies this threat.

Long Shot-22-28 The cut to a long shot is very unnatural perspective and convey the strange situation. The figure is in the centre of the screen breaking the rule of thirds and further strengthening the abnormal set of shots that make up the opening sequence. The silence further evokes with the exception of, the springs from the mattress, that creates a sense of frustration creating amplifying the enigmatic mood. A sound bridge is used to link to the next scene. The sound of the creaking door further exacerbates the sense of mystery suggesting that the man is looking for something unclear to the audience

Medium Long shot-29-37 The scene further continues the sense of mystery with the only sound being the footstep. The protagonist can be seen looking for something yet the lack of other diegetic sound inhibits the audience to know the source of his attention.

Close-up-38-44 The silence again provokes the audience and exacerbates their attentions to the diegetic sound. The absence of it poses further mystery to the scene. The drawings are used as part of the mise-en-scene as an implications to the vulnerability of what the audience presumes are his children's drawings.

Low angle medium long shot-45-51 A low angle shot is also enigmatic as it seems that somebody is watching or surveilling him which is very frightening for the audience which would be alarmed that somebody or something is in his house. Again little diegetic sound is used which evokes this sense of fear, only the sighs of the protagonist breaks the otherwise continuous silence.

Long shot-52-58 A strange shot is the used to portray the enigmatic feel of the sequence which evokes questions to the audience with no character present. A scream then cuts through the silence which is very disturbing for the protagonist who races out of the bathroom. However, the fact that the character has gone to the bathroom suggests that he has dismissed the first threat. Now that he hears again he cannot dismiss it and this is allows the directors to play with the psychological side of the genre.

Low angle zoom-59-1.02 The cutting rate increases to convey the anxiety and chaotic nature of the previous events. The Sound is also amplified to show the protagonists chilling alarming response to the events.

Medium shot-1.03-1.06 This shot frustrates the audience again as they are not able to see what the protagonist just heard once again playing on the psychological aspect of the genre and sequence.

Long Shot-1.07-1.10 A sound bridge is used this time playfully with the character easing the tension as the protagonist falls of the bed. However, the use of the sound is very important as the use of diegetic sound and then silence provokes the audience in to believing if the sound is truly there or not merging the difference between reality. This creates a illusion to the audience if they are able to trust their senses.

Close-up- 1.11-1.15 The editing takes us to another part of the house were another person, is revealed to have heard the noise. This makes the threat more credible. The way that everyone is in bed also sets the time of the sequence and shows how it is further abnormal.

Reverse zoom 1.16-1.20 Captures the man running out of the house and shows his desperation. It also highlights how he has finally come out of the house really pushing the idea to the audience with the link of the parallel narrative that the threat and screams are real.

Swish pan- 1.21-1.26 The swish pan is used to show the desperation of the character who searches around.

Track and over the shoulder shot. 1.27-1.33 The tracking shot is used to keep up with the character and show his frantic attempts to find his children and placing the audience amongst the two men. Again another sound bridge is used to interrupt the scene. This does not allow little discussion and keeps the momentum of the scene going.

Swish Pan 1.34-1.40 The pan moves away into the direction of the screams and stops at the visual barrier of the crops that does not allows to see where the screams are going for and permits the director to still create a sense of enigma. The use of a corn field can also be viewed as a metaphor for how difficult it is for the men to find the children.

Dolly shot 1.41.-1.51 The dolly shot is used to show the two men running towards the screams. It is indicative to note that the dolly shot is from the side and means that the rest of the screen in which they are running into cannot be seen creating a further sense of mystery by concealing the rest of the picture.

Medium Long Shot 1.52-1.53 The long shot captures the men looking in another direction where a sound interrupts it from the direction of the camera showing that they were looking in another direction. A clearing is made out abnormally in the otherwise covered maze field which evokes the audience to think of possibilities for this.

Swish pan zoom 1.54-2.01 The pan puts us in the perspective of the tow characters and the zoom draws the attention to a blurred figure. The Shallow focus is with the help of a short zoom to make the figure small and difficult to view. This correlates to the enigmatic opening sequence that is aided here in the mise-en-scene. The white is strongly connoted with purity and is used to suggests to the audience that it is a small innocent girl as indicated through the height.