The style of performance in the opening five minutes creates tension perfectly for this horror genre film. Drew Barrymore plays the first innocent, naive victim to psychotic anonymous killer. "What do you want" she screams. "To see what your insides look like" declared the maniac on the phone.
Casting back to the very beginning of the film, it starts with a plain black background, the font colour used for opening credits is red, resembling blood/ death. Meanwhile there is also non-digetic sound of screaming going on, helping to establish an uneasy setting for the viewer.
Order of shots in opening five minutes
- There are no beggining credtis other then the title of the film, kept fairly simple
-Close up of telephone
-Shows her on phone - Medium shot, hearing his creepy voice, she still sounds very relaxed
Popcorn shaking use of knifes in shot
-Establishing shot of her house from outside (panning up onto the house making it seem quite big and fairly calm. (Making man appear more creepy and unknown)
- Returns to shot of popcorn
-Aesynchranist sound of phone ringing whilst she makes pizza, he rings again very curious, she continues with conversation
- Again returns to popcorn (repetition)
- Women plays with knifes (point of view shot to create realism) also so you cant see everything going on (fear of the unknown)
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