Tormented (deconstruction)

The eye

Mise en scene

• This shot, in terms of depth of field, is incredibly shallow. The focus is just on the close up of Marcus' face and the background is blurred.
• The background, however, does have something noticeable in that the two shades of blue that we can see are completely different. The left side is much darker than the right. This obviously shows that the damage done to his eye is serious as it shows the contrast between the light blue (which is much brighter and generally a 'happy' colour) and the darker blue.
• This shot is a close up, but not quite an extreme close up as we can still see the nose and eyebrows of the character. This helps to show the emotion in his face.
• We can see that the focus is on the characters eyes, for obvious reasons. This is made even more obvious by the fact that the character's ears are blurry.
• Marcus' facial expression shows concern and a little bit of pain.
• The blood around his left eye connotes danger. This may be from the injury itself or from the person/thing that caused it in the first place.

Sound

• In the background, there is a non-diegetic tune that is a low, and slow, piece that sounds like it is coming from a string instrument of some sort. The notes are short and sharp, adding to the tension of the scene.
• There is also the diegetic sound of the character seeing the damage done to his eye.
• This is in the form of gasps and moans (as he pushes his eye back into the socket)

Lighting

• The lighting in this is shot is interesting because most of the light is on the right side of the face. This highlights the fact that something is very wrong with the left side of the face as it is in darkness.
• It almost puts a line down the middle of the character's face to illuminate the contrast of what his eye would have looked like before, and then what it looks like now.
• This makes the injury seem a lot more serious and makes the scene a lot more gory as we are now focused on the eye that has been pushed out of the socket.

Editing

• The editing around this part of the scene is continuous. 
• It follows the steps chronologically, not jumping to any other part of the film.
• This helps us, as the audience, to follow the story as it comes. Almost as if we are in the room with the character 

Being hung up

Mise en scene

• The character's red underwear connotes danger, showing us that something is wrong. This is backed up by the fact that we can see a line of blood dripping down the character's thigh.
• The slight blue line on the underwear would normally connote masculinity, but this blue is quite bright, showing that maybe the character has lost his masculinity or that he never had it to begin with.
• The vertical bars show that the character is trapped behind the fence and that there is not much chance of him getting out of the position that he is in at the moment.
• Behind the character and the bars, the background is a light green. Green usually shows us that something is wrong as it is an odd colour. The way that the green is only behind the bars also shows us that, whatever is wrong here, is only behind the fence.

Sound

• There is a non-diegetic tune in the background again, and it is continuing from the previous shot. However it has changed slightly in that it is now piano notes that are of a high pitch. It sounds like the black notes on a piano, and so we feel uneasy as we are listening to them.
• The sound changes when the blood begins to drip, highlighting the fact that something has gone terribly wrong for this character.
• However, the diegetic sound in this part of the scene is much louder than the music and, therefore, much more noticeable.
• The things that we can hear from the character are almost gargling sounds, showing that the character may be trying to speak but, for some reason, cannot. 

Lighting

• The lighting in this shot is pretty standard, however, we can see one shadow from the metal bar on the character's leg.
• This shows that the lighting is coming from in front of the fence. Therefore, we assume that behind the fence is a dark place, where bad things could happen. Whereas, the other side of the fence may hold hope for those who get there.
• All of this helps to remind us of how unlucky Marcus is because he is as close as one could be to the fence, he just didn't quite get over it.

The gore

Mise en scene

• The depth of field in this shot is quite shallow, forcing us to focus on the obvious - the death of the character.
• There is a lot of blood over this character's face, and it is all bright red, connoting danger.
• All but one of the metal spikes look spotlessly clean and this emphasises the pole that has gone through the character's head. Not only because it is the one right in the middle, but it is the only one that has been covered in blood. This all makes the kill a lot more personal.
• With concerns to camera shot, it is a fairly close up shot of the character's head. This leaves us at a distance that is not too close, probably because then we can't be affected too much by the gory death.
• The background, although out of focus, is still in contrast to the actual main focus of the shot. The background is quite natural and the weather is good. Of course, this just highlights the awful death of this character even more.

Sound

• The non-diegetic tune that is continous throughout the scene hits it's loudest when we see this exact shot. This adds to the surprise element as it emphasises the terror.
• But towards the end of this scene, the music fades and we are left in complete silence. The silence almost gives us time to reflect on what we've just seen. 
• I think the silence is incredibly effective because it is a complete contrast to what we have just been forced to watch. It is almost calm.