When a family came home at night, the director first introduced prop 1 (a note with "miss me" written in crayon) with an inserted close-up shot, and then used the front perspective composition and a single light source to guide the audience's attention subconsciously to the doll On the body, under the irradiation of hard light, the doll is eerie and vaguely visible, and tension and atmosphere begin to emerge.
The unexpected appearance of the doll dispatched the characters to the doll, and introduced the prop 2 (crayon) with the insertion lens again . The appearance of the two props, the crayon and the note, buried a layer of psychological hints for the audience - the words on the note came from the doll hand, the doll is a supernatural thing , and the development of the plot has repeatedly confirmed this
Since the light comes from the room and the characters are naturally dispatched into the room, the director's approach here is to first use the bottom light to exaggerate the character's facial expressions, emphasize the reaction, and prolong the audience's expectations and points for what the character sees and hears. Worrying , and then as the door slowly opened, the interior of the room was revealed in a delayed manner: crayon graffiti (echoing Prop 2), flickering lights, messy layout and furnishings... The huge amount of information and There were only a few hints in the past, which formed a strong contrast. The intuitive impact of the picture made the psychological hints confirmed, and the nervous emotions began to gradually progress.
The dynamic audio-visual information in the room, the sudden speed change of editing and the sharp sound effects continue to arouse the audience's nerves. The characters look up and see the words "miss me" on the ceiling, echoing prop 1, and the atmosphere and mood are further upgraded
Finally, with the crayon creeping into the painting under the subjective lens of the character , the long-standing emotions were pushed to a small climax , and the family finally decided to throw away the doll. A panoramic bird's-eye view explained both props 1, 2 and the doll. The whereabouts of the film also laid a foreshadowing, because the psychological expectations constructed by the director to the audience before told us that things are far from over.
The knock on the door after the family fell asleep dispatched the characters to answer the door, foreshadowing to recover, and then a scream pushed the clip to the second small climax , and the opening scene ended.
On the whole, there is no obvious or straightforward jump scare in this clip, but director Wen Ziren's more advanced narration sublimates its horror level: on the one hand , it conveys a layer of psychological hints to the audience through the repeated props in the picture. , pointing to an always potential danger, causing the audience to follow the characters in the film to decipher "what the doll has done" while retaining the fear of "what the doll will do to us" , the exploration of the past and the fear of the future make the image both Dramatic tension and atmosphere ; on the other hand, the rendering of its horror atmosphere is gradual and practical. In order to push it to two small climaxes, the director used a very elegant set to frequently schedule the actor's movement and camera movement. The logical motives of the characters in the film are logical and clear, which enhances the audience's sense of participation and presence .
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