The clip opens with depths of field on different parts of the protagonist’s body and costume e.g. the shoes, his face. We then have an establishing shot, showing the main character knelt down near a dead body. We know that the main character is the protagonist as the camera follows him around throughout the rest of the clip. The close ups of his face show how scared and upset he looks. The cutaways from the body to the main character, builds up the tension throughout the scene as we see the blood of the body. This makes the audience assume that the man has killed the woman or has done something to hurt her. As we don’t know this for certain it shows that it questions the audience and leaves them in suspense. They also include low angles, to show the strength of the man and high angle shots to show the weakness of the body.
As the clip continues notice there is a sound bridge of a diegetic sound of the school bell, which not only tells us we are moving onto a new scene but that we are going back in the past as the text “two days earlier.” We then know that it was a school bell as the next shot shows a locker, which the protagonist opens and finds the note. The camera then does a low angle shot to show the note falling onto the floor. Afterwards we see the main character sitting down on the curb of the road near a telephone box. This is a establishing shot to establish where the character is and what he is doing. The phone then starts to ring (probably sound effects to enhance the volume.) Finally, the last shot of the clip shows a close up of the protagonist as he answers the phone. This shows his shocked facial expression as he realizes that the person on the end of the line is his missing girlfriend.
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