The film starts very slowly with an establisher shot to show the audience the location of the scene. The sky is grey and depressing and is drawing colour from the landscape, this coupled with the eerie music creates an uncomfortable atmosphere. There are many slow panning shots which build tension in unison with the music as it grows louder. The setting is a corn field and the thick crop could be used as a hiding place, since the viewer can't see what is going on their imagination will start to come up with ideas for what could be happening and this is quite often more unnerving than anything in the film, the audience are in effect scaring themselves and this is a common technique used in horror films.
The camera pans up to see an old dilapidated sign squeaking in the wind, this makes the setting seem less hospitable and more dangerous. There is also a crow perched on the sign, since this bird is quite often associated with death this will start to build tension in the audience. The rust on the sign is a form of decay, the crow represents death and the audience may suspect that a dead or dying person may be seen soon.
The sound of an unconnected phone can be heard out of shot and this will confirm for the viewer that something is wrong. The phone is revealed lying in the field, as the camera tracks back the contents of a handbag can be seen lying on the ground. A strained cry can be heard, the audience's first assumption will be that the woman is in trouble and this will make them feel fear for her well being. The woman's hand claws at the ground and the crying grows louder, a bloody cloth is revealed as well. Now the audience will assume that the woman is being tortured or worse and fear will be at it's most powerful. The camera eventually tracks down as far as the woman's foot, the painful cries are more strained than before and the woman's movement becomes slower and less powerful. Eventually she falls silent and a hand drives a knife into the ground, this is accompanied by a loud orchestral climax. The sudden violence of this movement and sound will shock the audience.
A medium shot of the hand shows blood and as the camera tilts up tattoos, the man is quite muscular and is covered in dirt and oil. He looks threatening to the audience and as he stands up the raven starts to squawk at him, since the raven represents death it insinuates that the man has killed the woman. The man seems to be puzzled and later slightly intimidated by the raven which makes him appear to feel guilt, further implying that he killed the woman. The man's appearance and the music that accompanies his actions is used to make him appear as a bad guy.
The man frantically runs away from the woman to the roadside where a car is parked, he looks inside the car to find a blanket. His actions appear desperate and rushed due to shock, further exhibiting guilty behaviour. The raven follows him to the car and continues to squawk at him, the shots are filmed in a handheld fashion and cut faster than before to make it appear that he is being watched.
He runs back to the woman with the blanket which he apparently prepares to cover the woman with, a low angle shot is used to show the action from her perspective. However it is finally revealed that the blanket is for the woman's baby and that her cries of pain were from the labour. As the baby is revealed the music becomes more upbeat and positive and the picture becomes brighter and more colourful, new life is breathed into the scene by the new life of the baby. As all is revealed any misgivings about the man are wiped away as the audience can see that he was trying to help the woman all along.
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