Rationale

Rationale


The scene begins with an establishing shot of our unnamed middle aged male character standing in the door frame of the front of his house with the door swung open. There is a red brick underlay surrounding the doorway with two white old fashioned pillars on either side giving a retro yet modern feel to the house. There is a dull fade over the shot making the colours look damp and lifeless, as we continue into the plot we will see how there is an ironic comparison between the mans ‘mental state’ and the colours, in how they are dead almost a representation of his soul. There is a non-diegetic sound of smooth jazz playing in the background as if playing from an old phonograph. This is almost a contrapuntal sound and how the visual we are seeing on the screen is a gloomy and unattractive site where the music is upbeat and usually related to a feelgood atmosphere e.g. dancing and cheerful moments. It is acting as an ironic sound, contradicting the upbeat music with a melancholy soon. And ironic sound contradicting the upbeat music with a melancholy scene.

A male character is then seen to be walking down the front steps of his house down a brick pathway with dull brown grass on either side. This will be caught by a tracking shot which will follow him all the way down as he is seen to be taking out the rubbish, an ordinary human like activity. From the way our character moves will give the audience a sense of age meaning that our character will have an almost a limpish walk implying that he may be around the age of 50. Hey seems to be carrying a black rubbish bag filled with something that has to do for that weighs more than your average rubbish bin he then places it in the metal cans at the end of his road.

We were then taken to an extreme close-up shot of the man’s face, his eyes feeding to the left as if he is on edge or waiting for something to happen. This is when our audience starts to get the feeling of suspense and anticipation wondering what he may be looking for. As our character walks further away from the house the sound of the music being played slowly fades out to get quieter and quieter almost the opposite of pleonastic sound. Artificial lighting will be used to create an unrealistic you over the shot making everything look pale in comparison to the sun‘s rays.

He then walks over to a limp standing letterbox with its red tail upwards indicating that he has mail, we are showing a point of view shot of him opening the mailbox pulling down the front lid and pulling out the letter which is then turned into a match of action shot as we are then shown him Reading the address on the front of the envelope The cameras view goes into another point of view shot where we are we are shown the letter for a male leads eyes looking down onto the letter with the camera is positioned at a high angle looking down (High angle shot).

Instead of walking back through the front door the man takes a roundabout way and instead goes through the back door passing the front of his house, neighbours have been tracking this movement as it is unnatural and almost aberrant for him to be walking around the back of his house at dusk. There has been supposed reports of screaming voices coming from the back shed of this man’s house leading to the cause of a news reporter and her cameraman showing up uninvited, to investigate. All of this is put together with continuity editing creating a nice flow throughout the different camera shots. The scene will then end with a sudden non-diegetic drum bang adding an atmosphere of fear and coordinating with the picture as it will be a quick cut to black.