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The opening scene gives off a disturbing feeling and a site of the antagonist at play due to mise-en-scène, editing, cinematography, and sound. Mise-en-scène is portrayed through costume, makeup, hairstyle, props, and setting. The setting is heavy pelting of rain as Georgie runs through the suburban neighborhood playing. He is dressed in a bright yellow raincoat with minimal makeup because of his youthfulness and runs with a paper boat prop that provides significance. The paper boat falls into a sewer in which he meets the antagonist. The antagonist is dressed as a clown with all white makeup, red lips that go across his face, mouth-filled saliva, and huge yellow teeth which indicates a suspicious feel due to the stigma surrounding clowns because many individuals fear them or find them creepy. The props includes blood and a paper boat. The cinematography includes birds eye shot, point of view shot, close up shot, low angle shot, cutaway shot, and over-the-shoulder shot. The birds eye shot is the shown in the opening scene looking at Georgie chase his paper boat in which sets off a happy tone and then again at the end where it shows Geogie’s arm ripped off, spewing blood along with a hand reaching out towards him which is unsettling to the audience. The point of view shot can be decided on Georgie interacting with the antagonist in the sewer and looking down at him which gives off a suspicious feel of the deep shadows covering the antagonist. The close up shot is used to show the antagonist opening his massive jaw and big gnarly teeth to clamp down on Georgie’s arm, ripping it off. The cutaway shot is used to show another individual and their cat looking at Georgie during the storm when he is talking to the antagonist and then again once Georgie disappears which indicates a suspenseful feel as an individual who is a witness doesn’t know what happened to the youthful child. The over-the-shoulder shot showed the elderly lady being oblivious to where the child went as she looks out to the spot where he once was, but in reality he was dragged away by the antagonist. The editing was used by the use of slow cuts in the beginning, but once Georgie was reaching for his paper boat from the clown, the pace started to get a lot faster until the clown bites Georgie. Sound is protrayed through the screams of Georgie which is chilling and the dialogue between the antagonist and Georgie. The dialogue includes the naive boy who decides to trust the clown as the clown talks to the boy in a friendly manner and establishes trust. In the end, the antagonist bites Georgie’s arm off when he reaches for his paper boat, portraying the unsettling feeling seeing a child spew blood out his stump, screaming for the help of his brother, and dies off. It foreshadows events involving children and their importance to the antagonist.