A pair of womens underwear is shown after the handbag and they are covered in blood. This establishes a representation of rape within the mise en scene. The audience are positioned create their own meaning of this scene by the denotations (phone, bag and underwear) placed there by the producer as Roland Barthes says. Womens underwear is stereotypically associated with sex , as blood is with pain therfore the audience can connote that somebody is being raped. Although all the stereotypes of pregnancy fit the scene also, the generic conventions of horror created by the diagetic world position the audience to accept it as a scene of rape.
The second item to come into the view is the handbag with money spilling from it. The handbag gives connotations that there is a woman involved in the scene and it also anchors this image to the phone so the audience can connote it belongs to her and she is the one who has been trying to call for help. Money spilling from the bag is used to represent a mugging of some sort because money is stereotypically associated with theft.
In this scene The audience are positioned to read into certain denotations of the objects as they come into view.
The phone is the first of a few images which come into view gradually to drag the scene out and create suspense. The image of an open phone is combined with the sound effect of a 'disconnected telephone tone' to represent a situation of distress and connote that her call was unsuccessful. It also further enhances the representation of isolation within the diagetic world. Even before the woman is seen the phone gives connotations that somebody is in danger and has been trying to call for help.
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