Story Synopsis

Opening sequence:


-establishing shots of the woods -frosted morning - no non-diegetic sound to begin with - eerie silence with only diegetic sound that is present when recording.
-sudden shots of lower torso running - making audience expect a chase - shots resembling danger
-non diegetic sound starts as female character enters the shot - unexpected, anti-climax as she isn't being chased.
-various shots of her running through the setting
- she suddenly slows down
-pov shot to show she is getting dizzy/feeling faint
-jump cuts to machinery almost blurry
- she carries on running, the jump cuts continue to reveal other machinery & another character (male, unknown, mysterious)
-returns to shots of her running until she comes to the cross section of the woods
- camera following at side view, she stops but camera continues then follows back to show her unsteady
- she takes her headphones out non diegetic sound becomes diegetic
-she pauses the music and a eerie silence begins
- pov of someone watching, possibly high angle/hidden behind a bush or tree
-360 shot of her, looking around, holding her head, possibly falling to the ground
- jump cuts of disturbing scenes starting to reveal a woman being attacked by the male character (both identities unknown) shows the machinery, shows a ring with unknown female character in background.
-flashing to and from the present day and the flashbacks
-the shots build to become faster confusing audience, builds tension
-suddenly stops with her hand on the floor pushing herself up off the ground
-various shot focusing on her hand that has the ring
- shot of her hand on a tree then a final flash to the same shot but with blood on her hand.
-returns to her taking her hand off the tree, putting her headphones in and continuing to run.
-over the shoulder shot of a character watching her as she runs past


Overall story:


Main female character has been taken before but escaped and her kidnapper was arrested. She gets home after her run and sees on the news he has been released early. He then appears at random points in her day to day life watching her and later into the film she is taken again but the investigation for saving her isn't as straight forward as the previous time. The kidnapper sets a time limit setting up clues but never is revealed until the very end of the film where we see him as a normal citizen in a family friendly neighbourhood, the camera pans through the house down to the basement where we see a dark cage and a hand grab the bars with the ring on. end of film.