Analysis of Secret Window

Secret window starts with Johnny Depp in a mid-shot, sitting in a car staring wide-eyed at the audience not moving a muscle, with only the windscreen wipers moving across the camera. His facial expression shows he is upset abput something and thinking about it deeply. Then a narrators voice starts which says what the character is thinking (non-diagetic sound) and he starts doing what the narrator is saying. There is digetic sound of the car moving and the wheels screeching as he does tight turns with the camera moving with the car but focused on the characters face. There is then a long shot of this character steeling some motel rooms keys an the owner comes out seeing him walking out and yells at him. The camera tracks along side the character and follows him into the motel room where there is an establishing shot of the room to show two people having an affair in there. Here the character walks over to the bed, screams at them and then the camera tracks backwards out of the room as police run into it, and then cuts into a long shot so the audience can see the whole situation.

Then there is an aerial shot which flys over a lake to establish the location and it moves towards a forest with a house situated in the middle of it. The camera then moves through the open window into the house and tracks around the rooms to familiarise the audience with the setting. It then cuts to a shot of the man sleeping on the sofa. A soundtrack starts which give an eerie and lonely mood which may reflect how the character is feeling. There is then diagetic soound of him waking up and a knock at the door.