The set (lighting, mise en scene, etc.)
- soft lighting
- motivated lighting – window, mirror reflecting light
- mise en scene – in the background you can see typical bathroom things, shelves with bottles, mirrors, cotton balls and clutter, rubber duck
- lots of pastel colours – pinks, whites, yellows – makes Finn stand out when he enters wearing black
Camera
- lots of close ups
- mounted
- tracks her movement in the mirror
- shallow depth of field in close ups of pill bottle
- pans up to show her in bathtub, looking at self in mirror
- camera follows her under the water
- tracks outwards a lot – most mid/long shots (Rae sitting by the tub, shot of the door/hallway, 2nd shot of the house)
- shots of nothing (water reflecting on wall, clutter of bathroom) as Finn knocks show Rae’s lack of receptiveness
- still shots of the unbroken mirror, full bottle of pills show nothing happened
- final shot shows whole bathroom, whereas the rest has been quite close up/personal
Sound
- soundtrack: Radiohead – Exit Music (For A Film)
- foley – plaster being taken off knuckles, pills rattling in bottle, water dripping
- music muffles when Rae’s head is under the water, you can hear the sounds of the water in the tub as though you’re under the water
- music even more muffled as camera is positioned on the other side of the door, and fades out as camera tracks back
- knocking is heard quieter until shot changes to being back in bathroom, even though the sound belongs to this location and not outside
- hear mirror smash in slow mo, but not perfume bottles – music kicks in again with knocking and builds up
- sounds after this are unheard – soundtrack takes over until reality hits
- to show ‘reality’, there is no soundtrack, and you hear the ambient sounds of the water in the tub and the baby crying
- her narration is absent during the middle of the scene – is used to give you context and insight into her thoughts at the start, and to identify ‘reality’ at the end
