(0:00 - 1:37)
Duration: 8seconds
Technique: LaBeouf is shown sat on his chair in long shot. As a scream is heard he stands up and walks just to the right of the camera, as he does so the camera crabs up and right in order to keep LaBeouf in the middle of the shot.
Duration: 3secs
Technique: An extreme long shot, most likely from the POV of LaBeouf looks out to his neighbours house where, in the distance, we can see woman running through the house.
Duration: 6secs
Technique: LaBeouf, in mid-shot, picks up his camcorder. The camera keeps LaBeouf to the centre of the shot in a mix of smooth and jerky movements.
Duration: 2secs
Technique: A quick look at the house through the eyes of the camcorder, it is jerky, showing the adrenaline running through LaBeouf's character.
Duration: 1 second
Technique: This close up shows the determination on LaBeouf's face as he tries to get a good view of the house.
Duration: 5secs
Technique: The camcorder zooms in on the girl who is bashing against the window, as this happens the shriek music gets louder and closer to a crescendo. The camera then suddenly zooms back out.
Duration: 2.5secs
Technique: Another close-up of LaBeouf working the camcorder.
Duration: 2secs
Technique: Another camcorder shot, in long-shot, showing more action from the woman inside the house.
Duration: 2secs
Technique: LaBeouf with the camcorder again.
Duration: 2secs
Technique: The camcorder shows a close-up of the girl. The music suddenly picks up again as a figure appears behind her. This is done in a jump scare fashion which is much like the violins from Psycho.
Duration: 3secs
Technique: Another shot of LaBeouf shot in the same style as previously shown, however this time we see him reach for something out of shot.
Duration: 2secs
Technique: A more shaky shot through the camcorder in which we see the woman being dragged away by the man.
Duration: Half a second
Technique: A close up of LaBeouf as he stands up. He accidentally presses the flash on the camera, in which an effect is used to make the screen go white with the flash.
Duration: 3secs
Technique: A mid-shot of LaBeouf post-flash where he ducks for cover. The camera is far more shaky here, to emphasise how scared the character is and how frantic the scene has got.
Duration: 4secs
Technique: The shot begins in mid-shot directly in front of LaBeouf as he settles himself, the camera tracks into his face until close-up. As LaBeouf reaches for something on his right, the camera whips left to follow him, a monitor in the background shows the action from the perspective of the fallen camcorder, allowing the audience to feel more involved with the scene.
Duration: 20secs
Technique: In this long duration shot, the camera is in mid-shot, showing LaBeouf remove the camera from the tripod. The camera tracks LaBeouf's face so that whilst the audience sees what he is doing they can also get a feeling of the terror in the characters face as he uses his cunning to use the camcorder to his advantage.
Duration: 5secs
Technique: A shaky shot from the camcorder reveals a man in the opposite house walking around his house, the woman is not present.
Duration: 3secs
Technique: This mid-shot shows the desktop as LaBeouf's head appears in shot as he attempts to stabilise the camera. The audience can almost begin to feel at this point that something bad is going to happen or be seen.
Duration: 4secs
Technique: Another camcorder shot pans, shakily, over the house in which the man cannot be seen.
Duration: 5secs
Technique: In mid-shot LaBeouf trades the camcorder for a pair of binoculars. This can be seen as a nod to the original theatre poster for Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954) in which James Stewart is shown peering out his window with a very similar pair of binoculars.
Duration: 5secs
Technique: This short is much like the camcorder shots, however it is more zoomed in and clearer through the binoculars. It is very shaky as the camera sweeps over the house, the binoculars whip past a window, then whips back and suddenly we see the next door neighbour staring directly at "the audience" in the POV shot. The music once again screeches in a classic jump scare fashion.
Duration: 2secs
Technique: A mid shot shows LaBeouf pull his face away from the binoculars as the wind leaves him when he realises he has been caught. He drops out of shot.
Duration: 2secs
Technique: A close-up of LaBeouf's face as he drops to his knees in shock.
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