[door creaking]
low light- most centered around...
the characters - emphasize focus on them
High angle shots -make her appear innocent
Please?
Just for a little while
Please.
Thank you.
mise en scene: the cup
Its perfect, thanks
Sure.
Eyeline match between Chris and Missy.
shows they are even position and power
[Missy laughs]
You just dangle a pocket watch in
front of people's faces, is that it?
[chuckles]
You watch a lot of TV.
When I was a kid.
Missy: Ah.
Now you're feeling very sleepy.
[chuckles]
We do use focal points sometimes
to guide someone into a state
of heightened suggestibility.
Heightened suggestibility?
That's right. That's right.
diegetic sound: spoon against cup
Do you smoke in front of my daughter?
I'm gonna quit, I promise.
That's my kid.
That is my kid.
You understand?
What about your mother?
[clinking and scraping continues]
What about her?
Slow zoom on Missy-change in atmosphere
nondigetic music
I don't wanna think about that.
close up on cup - sound gets louder
Home.
Watching TV.
ecu and eyeline match - unsettling
What do you hear?
Rain.
close up on her but further shot of him
makes him vulnerable
[faint sounds of rainfall]
Mm, mm-hmm.
rain in head-diegetic and nondigetic sound
Tell me when you've found it.
flashbacks to when he was a child
rain transports him to memory.
[chuckles nervously]
Found it.
close up on cup again - source of hypnosis
slow zoom in to him
she was coming home.
She wasn't home.
From work?
Mmm.
Missy: Hmm.
And...
what do you do?
Nothing.
eyeliner match
close up (still zooming in)
You didn't call anyone?
- No.
- Why not?
[chuckles]
I don't know.
I just...
thought that if I did, it'd make it real.
cup=important prop, sound and hypnosis
flashback: scratching brings him back and
forth from flashback to present - motif
extreme close up on cup - scraping = motif
extreme close up of his face
I can't move.
You can't move.
Why can't I move?
You're paralyzed.
close up: emphasis on his eyes and tears
You did nothing.
paralyzed but able to scratch, involuntary
motif - shows his discomfort
sink into the floor.
voice deepens - shows its not reality
transition into the sunken place - editing
nondigetic sound
long shot - shows depth of sunken place
long shot of missy in the living room - tv
series of long shots
high angle above him: shows he's powerless
close up emphasis on his eyes
[gasps]