Case Studies- The eye

The director seems to be demonstrating random shots into a sequence unknown to the viewer. This creates tension and confusion in the viewer, this is typical of the thriller genre. The director also uses spatial relations, spatial relations is a technique used which requires the viewers to link one shot or scene to another. Spatial relations does not show events as they happen in a real life fashion. The reasons for the director doing this could be to move any typical extraordinary things happening in ordinary situations. This frightens the audience more as well as linking the scenes together it is the confusion that scares them the most. Hitchcock also uses this technique in his methodology of filming but the director of this film creates confusion also more obviously to someone analysing this film.

In the opening credits before we see moving images, non-diegetic eerie drums is present creating suspense in the viewer as we are wondering what is happening and how the film will pan out. After we are then introduced to images, allowing us to make inferences. The mise en scene is the dark and grimy setting and introduces us to a less privileged working class setting .The use of low angles also reflect this minority group in American society. We see the character struggling to do something, the director helps us to feel her frustration by showing some kind of rope and then a close up pf her face and then back and forth, until we link the shots together and infer that she’s hanging herself.
The use of a close-up conveys strong emotion onto us as we can see this characters eyes and her tears and this thus projects a feeling of distress onto us. The director here is strengthening the connection between us and the character Then suddenly there is a transition from suspenseful and unsettling music to flute and guitar non-diegetic sound. There is also light strings and choir singing this reflects normality and tranquillity. This in effect creates a sense of contentment within the viewer, they may infer that the narrative will move towards a more balanced structure. The director is using two contrasting elements within the narrative, the audience were already focused on the momentum of the first scene. There then is more opening credits and then a tilt from the sky connotes change and new beginnings.
The use of slow motion makes the audience feel as though we are experiencing some kind of dream. The slow motion added with the blurred effect is a demonstration of surrealism. Surrealism is a director or auteur’s attempt to portray the unconscious mind this is typical of the thriller genre.