1. What is revealed to the audience?
The main characters are a family living together on a farm. A scream of a young girl can be heard. The two adult male characters (one of whom is called Graham) run through the corn field and find the two children staring at the crop circle.
2. What is conventional?
- Sound: (only over the titles, when the action starts there is only diegetic sound) Strings build into a high tempo orchestrial music which builds tension and sets the mood of the film,
- main character is introduced,
- a clear protagonist is established; who is typically an average, family man.
- Camera: as Graham runs through the house and the crops, tracking is prodominantly used (alternating between a dolly and a hand-held camera)
- Editing: straight cut continuity editing.
3. what is unconventional?
- Mise-en-scene: Domestic setting of a large, American style farmhouse surrounded by corn fields,
- The antagonist is an alien threat (heavily suggested by crop circle).
4. How has it inspired me?
The antagonist does not nessecarily have to be human to be sinister, in fact, a supernatural one can build more suspense because its actions can not be measured with the limits of humanity - the audience is unable to predict it, therefore the narative is more thrilling.
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