One hour photo

One Hour Photo trailer deconstruction.

              

• The trailer starts with an establishing shot of a nice looking hose, and it slowly zooms in. Alongside this there is a non diegetic voice over of a boy talking about a man called Sy. It then jump cuts to a mid shot of the boy and his mum cuddling him. There is then jump cuts to a man who can be inferred to be Sy he is in a a bare room with white walls and boring furnishings. This scene juxtaposes the last one as he is alone and living a dull lie it would seem, whereas the boy and mum are look very loving and cosy.

•   There is a close up of Sy looking at a reel of negatives and it jump cuts to an extreme close up and as the audience we can see it is a picture of the mum and boy, he is looking at their photo's, there is a non diegetic voice over of Sy saying that developing photo's is 'an important job' he takes it very seriously and wants the best for his clients, he can even remember the woman's address, as he says '326 Serano Terrace' this enhances that he knows the family well even if they don't know him. It then jump cuts to a mid shot of Sy is sitting in a cafe looking at pictures of this family, the waitress asks 'mind if I have a  look' thinking it is his family, when actually us an audience know it is not his family.

• The non diegetic soundtrack sounds almost taunting, the loudness and intensity builds almost as if Sy's obsession with the family builds. There is a mid shot of Sy in his car seated very low staring past the camera, we can infer he is staring at the family. The use of parallel editing allows us to see Sy breaking into the family's house, and showing a Point of view shot of Sy looking at the family photo's on the fridge, which can be found in a typical loving house. As this clip is occurring, alongside it is a clip of Sy in the shop with the husband and he says 'if you don't mind my saying so, a very beautiful house' where there is a reaction shot and we see the husbands reaction to the news that this man has been in his home, it is understandably a look of shock.

• The close up shot of Sy taking a picture and the zooming into the lens allows the audience to see that the obsession is taking over. The tracking shot of the mum through a lens camera allows us to see what Sy is looking at, and we feel as though we are stalking this family as well. the non diegetic voice over of Sy talking says 'the Oxford Dictionary definition of Snapshot'

• There is then a montage of different snapshots of the family, the pace quickens and there is suddenly a black out and then zooms out and we as an audience can see a whole wall of pictures of the family. Sy is in the middle staring up at all the pictures, engrossed in the families lives.
• A fast pace montage of different clips from the movie then flits on the screen. They show Sy's obsession with the family taking over. He looks almost distressed at one point, as though it is taking over his life and it is becoming too much.

• The trailer finishes with a long shot through a camera lens of the family. It is looking in on the family through the window, this shows the complete obsession with the family. They are in their family home looking very happy together, and Sy is outside of this looking in.