NOTES:
- Very graphical/gritty; the dirty finger-nails, the needles, the blacked out images of peoples' faces, the rust on the scissors.
- Quick, consecutive close-up shots; employed to engage spectators and create curiosity into what they are seeing. Quick glimpses of gritty imagery help to communicate the genre relatively easy - thriller.
- Eerieness; the gritty imagery alone connotes this but low-key lighting helps to compound it. Conventionally low-key lighting is used to depict tense or dark atmospheres.
- Strong use of editing; all text is somewhat distorted and untidily looking, paralleling with the eerie non-diegetic sound effects. It enhances the eeriness.
- Sound works strongly in conjunction with editing; nearly every cut is made synchronous with disturbing sound effects - the buzzing effect in the shot where Morgan Freeman's name emerges for instance.
- Strong contrast colouring; only white for the titles and black for mostly everything else.
- Has a retro-like sense; the on-screen lighting buzzes create the sense of everything being watched through a television.
- Instability through cinematography; nearly every shot is a close-up and is distorted - just like the overlaying titles - everything is depicted as abnormaly.
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