Nine frame analysis of Secret Window

This is the 9 frame analysis of the film Secret Window. It is a Psychological Thriller starring Johnny Depp and Maria Bello. The film is about a writer, Mort Rainey, who finds out his wife is having an affair and begins to halluncite about a man called Shooter who claims that the story Mort is currently writing is being plagarised. It then tursn out that Shooter is a figment of Mort's imagination caused by the distress of his wife's affair. He ends up becoming Shooter and kills his ex-wife and her lover.
1st frame
The film starts with Mort in a Medium Close-up of  Mort in a car. The car engine is running and it looks like the scene is set in the winter. A voice-over starts, during which Mort reverses the car and turns it around. Another voice-over starts and he reverses the car out of the shot, which reveals a Motel. During this frame you can ear the sound of the windscreen wipers of the car.


2nd Frame-Sharp Cut
This frame starts off with a Medium Shot of the motel. The car that Mort is in, enters the shot. He gets out and makes his way to the reception. The camera, still outside, shows Mort walking behind a desk and grabbing a motel key off of the wall. As Mort leaves the reception. The Motel owner appears.


3rd Frame-Sharp Cut
This fram starts with a titled shot of Mort getting back into his car and then driving back out of the shot.


4th Frame-Sharp Cut
Point-Of-View shot from the car window of the passenger seat. Mort gets out and enters the shot proceeding to the motel room door.


5th Frame
Point-Of-View shot motel room door opening. As Mort enters the shot, there are 2 characters in a bed. They are Mort's wife and her lover. There is unaudiable dialogue and Mort leaves the camera pans backwards and past Mort's car. He gets into his car and drives out of the shot.


6th Frame-Fade in
Camera moves forward over a lake. The opening title appears over the lake. The camera reveals a forest with a house. There is classical music during the camera movement.


7th Frame-Fade in
Long shot of house, The opening titles fade over the house. Still with the same music.


8th Frame-Fade in
Opening title 'Secret Window' appears. There is a Low Angle Medium Long Shot of the house. The camera then pans left as the opening titles appear. The camera then moves forward past the house and into a window upstairs. The camera makes an establishing shot of the house as it moves downstairs and finishes with mort sleeping on a sofa. There is knocking on a door and the music that had been playing stops.


9th Frame-Sharp Cut
Close-Up shot of a doorknob turning.