Safe Textual Analysis

Safe – Textual analysis 

Scene	Camera	Editing	Sound	Mise-en-scene
Opening scene	Extreme close up of eye then cuts to close-up of the mans face to reveal his emotions  Close up of his hands shows how he is nervous/upset.  Extreme close-up of the second daughter’s and his own face to reveal their emotions following her declining holding his hand.	Cuts from the close-up to a long shot to establish location – graveyard conventionally seen in crime dramas.  Cut between close-up of his hands and then to his daughter grabbing his hand establishes his relationship with one of his daughters. It then cuts to another close-up of him reaching for his other daughter’s hand, which she then knocks away, contrasting the other girl which makes their relationship a lot clearer.	Quiet, non-diegetic music in the background whilst vicar says prayer  Dialogue from daughter, ‘yeah right’, establishes her dislike for her father and creates an enigma as you want to know why she hates him so much.	Black suits and religious clothing with the distinctive graveyard establishes that someone has died – creates an enigma as to who has died and how it happened.   Simplistic hair and make-up  Props include a coffin and memorial flowers.
Closing scene	Zooms into an extreme close-up of man's face to highlight emotion  Tracking shot into Sia's room to reveal her crying with soft focus in the background to emphasize her body language  Zooms out as the garage door opens to reveal JoJo, then zooms in again as the door closes to a close-up of his face to highlight his distress  Tracking shot towards JoJo by the freezer which then becomes a panning shot to reveal Chris' body	Cuts quickly between each character's current situation  Cuts from JoJo looking distress/scared directly to Tom in the car -> creates more of an enigma as the viewer must watch till the end of the episode to find out what is happening.  Montage of previous events creates an enogma as it doesn't all completely make sense – audience must continue watching to find out.	Dramatic, non-digetic music in background to add to the tense atmosphere  Hyperbolic crying  Changes to more eerie music as they garage opens – highlights the change of atmosphere from tense to nervous/scared  Quiet, eerie music in the background as JoJo cleans the freezer.  Music builds when Pete is revealed and when revealing Chris' body – adds to the dramatic effect	Realistic colour palette   Grey, cloudy sky and wet ground from rain -> pathetic fallacy  Simple + realistic wardrobe and make-up, but each item of clothing indicating social class/socioeconomic grouping.  Lighter colour pallette/lighting used in the scene with Tom and the other boy – could be sign of hope (which antithisises the tones used with JoJo and his family as they have no hope)