I chose to analyze a scene from Get Out directed by Jordan Peele mainly because the movie is low budget but super effective in every scene that is shot. This movie is about a black man who goes to visit his girlfriends parents for the first time and it all goes downhill. The hypnosis scene between when the mother and Daniel Kalyuua (the boyfriend), I chose this because the scene is shot super simple but yet most effective. It starts with her talking to the boyfriend on a simple dolly shot, same dolly shot just cuts to the boyfriend… then brings in the sound of the rain because he is asked to remember a certain day. Then they cut to the flashback of a kid in front of a tv, shot is well edited, you can clearly tell it’s a flashback. Then back to the mother and boyfriend in the room talking. They do a basic rule of thirds and just cut from person to person, but it’s super effective with the music and rain in the background. They show the tea cup and her swiveling the spoon around it giving the cup great value to the scene. The boyfriend starts spilling slight tears when the mother asks him about the day his mom died. The tears and lighting are what is most effective here, because the tears seem genuine and seem to have value as if this really was an emotion the actor was feeling. They also so a random graphic match cut between the flashback and him sitting in the chair, the cut is of him frantically digging his fingernails into the chair, and in the flashback, what seems to be the bedpost. I think they do this to impose that the actor is trapped in the flashback before he is actually trapped in the memory. They go back to the teacup after capturing him cleary in distress and tearing up. Then the quote of “how do you feel”, “I can’t move” and this is when you know the cup is key to hypnosis. Then when he starts sinking into this trapped state of nothingness they do a great but simple job without much, if any, CGI by just cutting back to the flashback and having the kid and camera move downwards from behind the pillow and shows the kid sinking into his bed, then cuts to the trapped nothingness state. And the scene of him trapped in this black abyss of nothingness is really cool because it’s as if he’s looking through a TV at the mother who is staring at him, and all of this editing and cutting is super effective due to the music choice and simple after effects experience. This scene was just directed beautifully and the music behind it is what gives it it’s pizazz.