[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]