It Follows

The film opens up to a female sprinting out of her house as if someone is chasing her, but the camera frame stays centered and focus on her and not showing what she is looking at. The mood of the opening is a feeling of curiosity and suspenseful through the use of mise-en-scène, editing, cinematography, and sound. Mise-en-scène is shown by costuming, props/decor, makeup, hairstyle, and setting because the female in the scene was wearing an all white pajama set with red high heels with simplistic hair and makeup.  The props are the car which she drove to get away from someone or something, a phone where she calls her dad telling him how much she loves him indicates something is gonna happen to her. Then in the end there was blood dripping from her fractured legs. The setting is located in a suburban area which then cuts to the beach where she is killed brutally. In the suburban area, her local neighbors asked if she was okay which means they do not see what she sees and that leads to more curiosity and suspense. Cinematography is shown through establishing shot, pan shot, tracking shots, dolly in, over-the-shoulder shot, long shot, and close up shot. The establishing shot and pan shot shows the suburban area the woman is located in and the change of setting to where she rests at a beach. The tracking shots follow the female wherever she runs keeping a closed frame and not showing what she is looking at. The dolly in shot shows suspense as if the camera is the supernatural being chasing after her. The over-the-shoulder shot is seen when the woman is speeding off on the highway and keeps looking over her shoulder trying to see if anything is chasing her which creates paranoia. The long shot shows the overview of the setting change and the fear the woman is feeling. The woman is huddle together, calling her father that indicates the set of anxiety to what is about to happen and then cuts to a long shot of her car and the woods area and the way she reacted is as if the supernatural being found her. The editing is portrayed through the use of cuts and long takes of the female driving off then abruptly cuts to a beach. Sound is shown through the use of dialogue as she calls her father telling him how much she loves him and that indicates her final moment talking to her loved ones. The lighting is dimmed then turns to low-key as the day transitions to night and the only light is the car beams and cloudy sky that resembles a bad omen and has a blue color scheme. This all contributes to the unsettling feeling the scene is portraying and sets the basis of the film due to an unknown figure going after the female character and she tries to escape, but meets death in an unfortunate way.