Psychological thriller, 'Gone girl'. Nick and Amy Dunne (played by Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike) portray a painting of joyous marriage. Nevertheless when Nick's wife, 'Amy' goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary, he becomes the number one suspect. All the police harassment and media intimidation causes their happy marriage to crumble, leading to the enigma of whom Nick and Amy Dunne truly are. The despairing tone is set throughout the trailer, from the use of de-saturated lighting and non-diegetic sound which is parallel and synchronous to the images presented, this is a continuous convention used as iconography in the thriller genre.
Shots and camerawork are used for the target audience to determine the protagonist(s) and gives subliminal messages revealing parts of the narrative. On a ratio of the scenes, the majority are taken up of the same characters, Nick and Amy Dunne, this connotes their importance to the narrative. Nick, is shown in close up or extreme close ups shots carried out to present and highlight his expressions and reactions to specific situations- signifying the narrative is driven by him and his reactions.
Synchronous to the non-diegetic soundtrack of the female protagonist, Amy's voice over, expressing the stereotypical beliefs of what marriage should be like in comparison to what her husband and her marriage is truly like, the target audience are presented with a point of view shot of Amy writing in her dairy. This juxtaposes the nature of the narrative and the previous shots of, 'missing' posters and searches connoting the enigma and deeper meaning to the narration.
'Gone girl', is set in the present time connoting the producers mind play on social issues such as missing or accusations; signified on continuous shots- negatively posed on Nick connoting it as the movie's theme. The quick subliminal cuts, between shots with both Nick and Amy, have no sense of cut from the quick editing, signifies subconscious messages of the relationship of their marriage, that it is very limited with enigma and false conceptions or feelings.
The soundtrack conforms the ideology of accusations and blame being the theme. The use of non-diegetic voice-overs parallel to the shots pushes the accusations onto one character- while connoting the narrative. The audience are faced with voice overs, 'you're the most hated man in America right now' and 'Did you murder your wife?' then cutting to shots of an adult male, connotes whom is in accusation and also signifies him as the protagonist, from his recurrence in scenes and shots.
The camerawork, conforms he is the protagonist or leading character from the rule of thirds. In all shots in which he is represented in, he is positioned carefully to take up the majority of the shots. However the other shots where he is not presented also dominant to this ideology, as they have other elements, as props, characters, or even voice-overs, relating to him this signifies his importance in driving the narrative, and the impact his actions and expression has on the outcome.
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