Friday, August 30, 2019

2nd Analysis of thriller opening- HUSH

HUSH-




it is a 2016 American slasher film, directed and edited by Mike Flanagan.The movie is about a deaf and mute writer retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.
Blumhouse productions(a production company that produces low-budget horror films) is the production company for this film.
Netflix is the distribution company.
Intrepid pictures(an American independent film and television production company dedicated to producing elevated commercial content for global mainstream audiences)
 is also the production company for this film.




The scene starts with a crane shot and the text 'HUSH' is written in bold to introduce the name of the film at the very start. The text fades and the camera tilts down from the view of the sky and trees to a view of a house isolated in the middle of the forest.The camera seems to be on a crane as it is constantly moving and it goes closer to the house. During this, There is an ambient or natural sound of the birds chirping to create a very natural environment feeling and to highlight the fact that the house is in the woods. A clicking sound of the gas(sound effects) takes the scene ahead to an extreme close up of someone turning the gas on and the fire starting only in a matter of seconds.Next, is a close up of the person opening a bottle of champagne with a mounted corkscrew, pouring the wine into the glass, chopping onions with a knife, then breaking an egg, dropping in flour, whisking the egg, smashing garlic with her hands, chopping asparagus and stirring the asparagus in low heat which is all accompanied with the synchronous sound to highlight the sounds that come with the day to day chores such as cooking.


Afterwards there is a point of view shot of the person opening the lid to check the meal( sizzling sound)  and then opening the oven to an overcooked meat dish inside.The camera then scans the recipe on the screen of an iPad  to show what the person is doing which then shifts focus to reveal the person seeing the recipe from the screen itself.
Next, there is a mid close up of the person's face to reveal a women in her mid-thirties with brown wavy hair and fair skin.


 From her expression she looks as if she is trying to figure something(the recipe) out. The camera slowly rotates to her right profile, clearly showing her ear whilst the sound fades out to reveal that she is deaf and all the previous sounds that were shown earlier while cooking was inaudible to her.
This creates a very dramatic effect as the sounds that are so familiar and normal while doing something as basic as cooking is actually not audible to her.

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