Butterfly on a wheel

Butterfly on a wheel:

This is one of the very first shots that we use throughout the film, it shows the main woman asleep and a short panorama of certain parts of her room using an eye level shot as it begins to show us the parts of her bedroom, eye level shots put the audience on the same level as the subject in an attempt to create empathy and understanding. The lighting is all very low key lighting which creates a negative feeling in which makes the scene look eery and as though something is going to wrong. However, they then use a cut away shot to show the audience a photo of her and what we first believe is her husband by her bed facing her in the bed, this then implies to the audience that she is in a loving committed relationship and is very happily living with her husband, however he is not in the shot sleeping in bed with her which then makes the audience wonder where he is and why h is not with her sleeping at night like couples do.

When she is woken by what sounds like metal hitting on something she turns on her bed side light and this is portrayed through a point of view shot as we see her looking towards what looks like outside of her bedroom door. This small glimmer of more high key lighting then creates an effect that makes us think that she is now safer as she can see in her room and is more likely to see anything that is going to happen than what she would if she had stayed in the darkness. As she turned on the light and there is only a small amount of light within the room compared to the low key lighting previously and also the low key lighting that is in the rest of the room that is not near the lamp it implies to the audience that although she is thought to be in danger and that something is going to go wrong due to the eery lighting, it implies that the light is hope. As although the low key lighting implies that something is going to go wrong the high key lighting glimmer acts as an act of hope and reassurance that something may go right although it is expected to go wrong. She is seen as a housewife due to the fact that she has photos of her family in her room and has a big house implying room for children.