"The Mist" (Darabont, 2007)
0:14 - 0:51 Extremely long cut, panning/crabbing through the room to establish the scene. The camera looks over the man's shoulder at the painting. There is dull lighting due to the fact that it is in the evening. There is quiet diegetic music in the background (on a radio) which is used to set the mood, accompanied by the sound of thunderbolts and rain - also diegetic. Lightning flashes on the left side of the man's body, shortly followed by the power going out, which prompts him to look outside the window at the weather. Lightning flashes on his face again.
0:51 - 1:05 Slightly shorter, motivated cut. This is to show the weather (which is conventional to psychological horrors). Pathetic fallacy is used because the weather is representative of the mood of the scene. The title fades in, with a very simple font; the camera slowly zooms out to reveal the protagonists standing at the window looking at the weather.
1:05 - 1:12 A low angle shot, showing the protagonists walking down the stairs into a pitch black basement, carrying a candle and some pillows.
1:13 - 1:25 A shot of the window smashing, followed by a motivated cut to see the glass coming straight towards the camera (which is positioned next to the painting). We are expected to feel sympathy towards the male protagonist because he clearly spent a lot of time working on this painting, for it to be destroyed in seconds.
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