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Audition

A close analysis of a key scene

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Shot 1

12 s

Scene – Aoyama in his office.

Narrative – Asami has disappeared. He has been thinking and dreaming about her. He is tempted totry and call her again. His assistant (who he has clearly had an affair with at some time) has just lefthim alone in his office.

Shot – Mid shot, plainly lit, laptop in foreground.

Performance - Aoyama’s eyes flick and then doubletake to his desk phone and he bites his lip as heconsiders phoning again.

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Shot 2

3 s

Scene – Aoyama in his office

Narrative – He is thinking about telephoning Asami

Shot – Medium shot of telephone – Aoyama’s POV – part of shot/reverse to establish the narrativepoint of what Aoyama is thinking about – it follows the previous shot focusing on Aoyama’sdouble take of the phone.

Performance – n/a

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Shot 3

3 s

Scene – In Aoyama’s office

Narrative - Reinforcing contact with Asami

Shot – Low Angle m/s of Aoyama with phone foregrounded and blurred

Performance - How much is Aoyama acting out ‘I want to phone her’ and how much do we just readthis in from the framing and editing?

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Shot 4

3s

Scene – Asami’s apartment (second look at it)

Narrative - Iconographic link with phone, hugely fore grounded, linked to previous shot.

Shot – Tatami shot. Foregrounded phone, deep focus to hold on mysterious bag in centre of shot.

Sound - echoing windy sparse soundscape – significant difference in ambient noise from Aoyama’sworkplace.

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Shot 5

4s

Scene – Still in Asami’s apartment

Narrative - She is there – but not moving, not answering the phone. Narrative strangeness.

Shot – Low aeriel shot, Asami half out of frame, made strange.

Performance – Asami is still but curled into this strange shape with her almost reptillian spinedominating centre screen.

Sound – still in the slightly otherworldly soundscape of Asami’s apartment

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Scene 6

07s – the shot duration is increasing, giving us time to think about what we’re seeing

Scene – Still in Asami’s apartment

Narrative – The phone is ringing and Asami is ignoring it. More implied information about her fromthe strangeness of her apartment

Shot – Apartment in m/s tatami shot. Phone/bag in middle of shot to give us bearings from shot 4

Performance – Asami’s stillness and strange body shape.

Sound – Still in strange soundscape of Asami’s apartment

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Shot 7

0m 20s

Scene – Back in Aoyama’s office

Narrative - He decides to call her, picks up the phone, then changes his mind and starts to leave

Shot - Repeat of shot 3, leading to…

Camera Movement – follows Aoyama as he stands and starts to move away from the ‘phone

Performance – Aoyama’s pose is held from shot 3, his indecisiveness and rejection of the idea ofcalling. He’s all eyes and mouth.

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Shot 8

13s

Scene – Aoyama’s office and out into the corridor

Narrative He decides not to call her and starts to leave

Shot – M/s on Aoyama

Camera Movement - Tracking shot back from Aoyama as he walks forwards

Performance – Aoyama is demonstrating his conflict about calling/not calling

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Shot 9

9s

Scene – Corridor outside Aoyama’s office

Narrative – Aoyama decides to go back and call Asami

Shot - Aoyama in midshot, still camera again after the tracking shot

Performance – Through his facial expressions and his movement back to the office Aoyamademonstrates the decision he’s come to.

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Shot 10a

10s

Scene – Cut back to Asami’s apartment

Narrative – The phone rings and slowly Asami smiles

Shot – C/U, dark, face framed by falling hair

Performance – Asami’s gradual smile is not very cheery

Sound- Strange soundscape of the flat plus the phone ringing

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Shot 11

10s

Scene - Still in Asami’s apartment

Narrative – She is smiling at the ringing phone. And then…

Shot – mid shot, Asami in foreground (and again the strangeness of the foregrounded phone shot ishighlighted) and The Sack is mid shot, coming into clear view as she moves. And then…

Sound – strange soundscape of her apartment. Phone. And then…

Performance Asami’s gradual unbending and her unnerving smile

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Shot 12

2s

Scene – Still in Asami’s apartment

Narrative – the sudden shock – we knew everything wasn’t right and the sound and vision combinedsuggested that anything could happen. And then it did, out of nowhere.

Shot MCU tatami shot

Sound – strange soundscape of Asami’s apartment and the crash and moan of the sack.

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Shot 13

01s

Scene – Still in Asami’s apartment

Narrative – Linking shot – parallel editing to make absolutely clear thatit is she and Aoyoma who retalking on the phone in the next shot.

Shot CU Asami pov of the phone and her hand coming in to answer it

Sound – The phone. The strange soundscape of Asami’s apartment.