Analysis of Peep

Peep

Produced by Micheal Evans

The film begins with a medium shot of the protagonist using high key lighting to make the audience focus on her; she is laying in bed and seems to be looking over or at someone which automatically begins suspense to the audience. It then changes to a full shot of the woman persona laying on top of the bed sheets looking over a man who is laying in the bed sheets, this therefore shows that she is either not welcome in the bed she is currently laying in or that she has somewhere else to be. Slow suspense music plays then there is a sound of a knock at the door, there is then a medium shot of the woman's face as it shows that state of confusion on her face. The next shot is of the front door with highly suspense music, making the audience feel on edge there is then another three knocks at the door and yet still no one has gone to answer the door, making the audience become highly curious on what is actually going on, it then cuts a shot to the time of 1:47am which then gives the audience an insight that whoever is at the door should not be there. It then cuts to the woman persona's face, still looking highly worried and afraid, she then decided to get up from the bed very slowly which connotes that she is unsure of what she is about to do, it then cuts to a shot which makes it looks like someone is watching her from the hallway and you can see her shaking and still very hesitant on what she is about to do, the use of the lighting of the room creates to shadows on each side of the wall, making the scene become much more eerie, again you hear three knocks at the door so whoever it is, is very persistent on someone answering the door. The mis en scene then becomes very dark as you can barely see the persona anymore as they are walking in darkness as well as there is a lot of space on screen which presents her isolation thus creating higher suspense as there is also slow tense music playing. A close up is used to present danger as well as isolation as the persona is petrified as you can see the fear in her face due to the camera being so close up, it then begins to create high tension as both of the characters on screen are right in front of each other but the only thing stopping them from anything happening is the door, however they both can see each other through the small hole in the door known as the 'peephole' therefore this then links with the movie title which gives a clue to the audience that whoever is behind the door will be highly significant to the narrative. As the persona we've got used to seeing on the screen looks through the peephole there is then a crashing sound which makes the audience jump as the camera turns to who is standing outside, the audience is then confused as the same persona is on the outside of the door as well as the inside it then turns out to be a flash back (which is confusing as there was no clear indication that it was a flashback to begin with) as it shows her partner answering the door, it then cuts back to the persona walking away from the door crying.