Initially, the birds eye view of the ocean is an unnatural and strange angle, making the familiar view of the water seem unrecognisable, yet almost daunting; it makes the audience members acknowledge how they will be overseeing the following events and not feel like a character within it to provide assurance, an omniscient view despite having no power to help the victims; moreover, it demonstrates how something deemed unnatural will occur in realistic and natural settings, a common convention of psychological horrors that turns the audience more fearful, believing such events could happen in scenes or areas around them in everyday life.
During the mid shot, which is another method to depict a natural scene, the camera is instead focussed on the video tape to give the audience the significant fear from psychological horrors of everyday objects replacing the concept of weapons; it is filmed from a low angle to depict that it has higher authority than both the audience and characters, automatically confusing the viewer as the background loses focus providing a disorientating effect to add to their current overwhelming state of powerlessness and vulnerability (emotions shared with the female in this scene).
The pan of the room, reflects and establishes how the setting is a conventional big house, with its furnishing of lamps, sofas and drawers, again focussing on everyday life, using more soft furnishings in contrast to the events that will happen in them presents an oxymoron to the audience in order to confuse them. The transition from more soft light from the lamps where diffused light diminishes the outline and clarity of characters, minimises our understanding of them depicting how little we know about them, to the kitchen with low key lighting that uses shadows and darker scales demonstrates the males hidden dark agenda, or his hidden truth which is his curse since the key light which could recognise hope is less bright and does not dominate the setting, whilst illustrating another convention of ordinary people exerting horror on other characters.
The music used, however defeats the the convention of contrapuntal sound, with the non-diegetic score of violins and string instruments complimenting the suspense in the scene to create tension. Furthermore, the character of the female is dressed in light pink with minimal makeup or jewellery, to depict a childlike innocence, which are traits often embodied by victims in psychological horrors to emphasise their vulnerability and receive pity from the viewers.
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