The way in which this scene is designed gives it a feel of mystery and intrigue. The director expresses this feel to the scene by having props put in a certain position and having them shown to the camera in the right order.
The scene is set in a very misty forest in which you can only see whats right in front, this mist/fog makes the scene very mysterious because you feel like you can't see everything that you would like to and something could be hiding in the mist but you aren't sure so it makes you feel nervous as to what happens next.
Because this scene is mainly shot using tracking, it means that we see objects one after the other as if following a scene of events.
The first object we see in the scene is a gun lying on the ground, when we first see this we immediately think of murder or fighting. It gives you an idea that this movie could possibly be an action movie or a mystery movie. Also the fact that it is on the ground and not in someones hand makes you think that the person who had it before is dead or injured but probably dead because there is no sound to suggest someone is in pain. Having the gun as the first object is perfect because a gun usually symbolizes violence and there is a lot of violence in this movie so it tells you that there will be action and people dying.
The next big object in the scene is the dead body which lies not very far away from the gun. You know the person is dead because they are not moving or making a sound and since we saw the gun lying not far away from him we expect it was dropped due to him being killed. The body is also still very intact and not decomposing meaning that the person was killed not long ago, this shows that the person/thing that killed him is probably not far away. The body makes you wonder where the person who killed him is and again creates the nervous feeling because it could come out and scare you at any moment.
We soon see a skeletal, hairless cat moving over towards the body. The cat has a very creepy feel to it because it is not a normal cat like ones we see everyday. It gives you the feeling again that this forest is very strange and different and makes you feel nervous and apprehensive. This emotion could have gone a completely different way if the cat was 'normal' (with hair, and fatter) because we are used to cats looking that way and think that they are not scary. Having the cat appear this way also makes you wonder if you are in a different period of time because normally cats are not like that.
All these objects end up providing the same emotion of nervousness, scared and leave us unsure of what we will see next. They also provide us with an insight to what the movie could involve - violence.
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