This document summarizes and analyzes several shots from the film Annihilation. The shots show Sarah and Juno reacting to seeing a crawler. In one shot, Juno is positioned slightly higher, suggesting she feels superior to Sarah as she tells Sarah what she saw was just her mind playing tricks. Another close up shows Juno looking at Sarah's face as she tries to convince Sarah she didn't see anything. A later shot focuses on Sarah's relieved but shocked face as she realizes she was right about what she saw, while Juno also looks shocked to discover it was a creature and not human.

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2. This close up of Sarah and Juno. This is were Sarah sees the crawler and Juno is
persuading her that she has not seen anything and it is her mind playing tricks on her.
This is a medium shot and Juno is positioned slightly higher than Sarah which suggests
Juno feels she is superior to Sarah as she is telling her what to do.

3. This is another close up of Sarah and Juno again and this time Juno is looking
at the expression on Sarah’s face and is convincing her she hasn’t saw
anything.
Here we see the horror aspect of the theme of claustrophobia as it is dark
and they are very close together. The lighting in focused on Sarah’s face
making her the main focus.

4. This is close up of Sarah’s face focusing in the person she has thought she has just saw
a person however Juno is behind her which now suggest Sarah has power as she was
right. Sarah looks as though she is relieved however Juno seems to be shocked as she
realizes that the thing they have just saw is a creature and not human.

5. Here we see the light focusing on trying to see what they have just saw and this
suggests the significance of the shot and how spotting the creature changes the
situation and makes it worse.

6. This is an extreme wide shot with the crawler in the middle making it the main focus.
Although we focus on it we are unable to tell what it actually is. This