Hush textual analysis

At the beginning of this scene, the lady, who is completely deaf, opens her sliding glass door, leans outside into the darkness of the night and shakes the dog food bowl to attract her dog to come. From the medium long shot of the woman, I can see that she is wearing a very pale pink vest top and dark grey jeans. Her outfit connotes her characteristics of being quite girly but not too girly and portrays her tenderness and vulnerability
. Her 'tom-boy' traits are supported by the woman as she has neat brown hair pulled back into a pony-tail.  At this point there is both digetic and non-digetic music. The digetic sound added was the sound of the dog food shaking, the sliding door and the sound of crickets. The sound of crickets allows the audience to realise that the house is in a wooded area and not in an urban, busy area. the crickets also suggest that she is in a quiet, isolated area so if anything bad was to happen, she is alone. The non-digetic music is synchronous as it is mysterious and adds suspense which suits the scene.

The dog still has not appeared from the woods and the lady's expression now implies that she is quite concerned and confused. This then leads the audience to think that something bad has happened tot he dog. There is a panning shot when she puts the food bowl on the floor. The panning shot captures the glass door. This can imply that something is outside and is able to watch her through the glass. This gives the audience discomfort and nerves. The further panning, medium long shot of the woman walking around her kitchen to the living room allow the audience to realise that the woman is on her own and that there are many windows. The style of her house displays her age and maturity as the house consists of plain designs, mature colours and sophisticated art work on the walls.

When the woman sits down on her armchair there is a close up of her face opening her laptop. From this shot, the audience are able to see the minimal and natural makeup she is wearing. This can also imply her lack of interest in makeup and that she may be a female who has male interests such as fighting. Therefore, the audience may have some hope that she can defend herself if something bad were to happen. A point of view shot is then used when she is looking at her laptop screen. This emphasises the fact that she is not scared about being alone and is relaxing.

Her relaxation then comes to and end and she is now confused and nervous. This is due to her getting a message sent to her laptop from her own phone which she had left somewhere in the house. She opens the message to find pictures of herself which had been taken outside through the windows which is displayed through a point of view shot again.. By this time, the non-digetic music has now become deeper as a tense moment has occurred. Now, the audience are aware that someone is watching her outside by has been in the house to get her phone. The digetic sound of crickets is still heard inside the house which notifies the audience that she or someone else has left the door open. Unfortunately, as she is deaf, she is even more unaware of this.



She slowly turns here head to where one of the pictures seem to be taken and intensely looks in that direction. An exterior shot from outside then appears from the open door to give the audience the feeing that the person is looking at her. The shot then switches to a close up shot of the open door with no one there.



The woman slowly stands up and make he way across the room in order to see if the mysterious person is outside. The shot keeps cutting between her and the panning shot of the door that slowly reveals more of the door way at a time. This is used to create a large amount of suspense which is also maximised by there being no non-digetic sounds and only the continuous sound of the wildlife outside. Finally, the medium long shot of woman shows that she not has full vision of what is outside as her breathing becomes very heavy and her facial expression is very scared. The shot then cuts to a masked man in a black and grey jacket with the hood over his head, holding up her phone in his hand. Shot reverse shot editing is used when the woman and mysterious man are looking at each other which maximises the tension of the moment.

Suddenly, her and the man run to the door which fortunately she shuts before the man gets into the house. At the same time of this happening, there is fast paced non-digetic music which is synchronous to both of them sprinting. There is then an exterior shot from behind the man as he seems to have an idea, turns and walks to the next window or glass door. This shot makes the woman seem as though is weak and small now as she is caged inside of the house. This is a countertype of women as women are seen as running away and seeking help from a male. Also from this shot, the audience are able to see that the man is carrying and bow and arrow on his back as a weapon, making the audience wonder what he is planning on doing with it. The non-digetic sound has now converted into action music which would be heard in an action/adventure film.


The woman continues to run from door to door locking them and this is show through tracking shots. When they both stop running and are looking at eachother through the glass door, the fast music stops and quiet, suspensful, ghostly music replaces it. The man dramatically turns and then slowly walks away to the side of the house. This is shown through the women's point of view shots whilst she watches him thought her kitchen window. This causes more suspense amongst the audience as they do not know what the man is going to do next and there is now a scary sense of the unknown.
There is then an establishing shot which captures both the women inside of the house and the man looking at each other. A montage of editing of tracking shots of both the man and women jump from shot to shot to capture every moment of what the man is getting ready to do. The man then attempts to find another unlocked door and the man and women are face to face once again.