Analysis of an AS Thriller

We can already see that the male character is wearing leather gloves and a trench coat as soon as he walks through the door, which is suspicious in itself and the non-diegetic sound as he enters indicates his nasty side. The woman comes across as very innocent as her home has many signs of it being family-like with family photos and a pram in the corner of the room. This binary opposition of a sinister man and an innocent woman makes it obvious that something will happen to her and the tilting down motion of the camera showing how he stole her door keys highlights this. The slow non-diegetic sound and tracking of the camera help to build up tension in the sequence as the killer stalks around the kitchen and the fact that the house is in an isolated location signifies that she will have nowhere to go. There is an eye-line match of him looking at the woman's key and phone on the table and a close up of him taking them which demonstrate the danger in which she is about to face. As the woman looks in the mirror, she catches him stealing things in the drawers and this is shown through an eye-line match. The close up of his leather glove placed next to her hand along with the sinister non-diegetic sound indicates that the killer is about to murder his victim and heightens the tension within the final scene.