| Shot | Visual Track | Soundtrack |
| No. | Length | Camera movements Characters' movements Elements on the scene Notes on the lighting | Dialogue (voices) | Noises | Music |
| 01 | 1 | M.S., fixed, horizontal | Hallway of Sara’s flat, with red light, and a part of the living room, with blue light. | / | / | / |
| 02 | 7" | H.F., l-r trav. Ending with a short forward trav., horizontal | Living room; Sara enters first, from the left, then the camera follows Carlo, entering after and going to the couch. | Carlo: “What do you do, Sara? Do you study or work?”
Sara (o.s.): “I study music” | Steps | / |
| 03 | 3" | M.F., fixed, horizontal | Sara, giving her back to the camera, going to the turntable. | Sara: “And what do you do?”
Carlo (o.s.): “I’m a journalist” | Steps | / |
| 04 | 1" | A.P., fixed, horizontal | Carlo, standing in front of the couch, talking to Sara, off screen, at his left. | Carlo: “Television sport reports” | / | / |
| 05 | 3" | A.P., fixed, horizontal | Sara is bent towards the turntable, then, when she talks, turns to Carlo, off screen, at her left. | Sara: “Can I ask you something weird?” | / | / |
| 06 | 2" | Like 04 | Like 04 | Carlo: “How weird?” | / | / |
| 07 | 3" | Like 05 | Sara talks to Carlo, o.s., turned to her left. | Sara: “Have you ever heard about the three sisters?” | / | / |
| 08 | 2" | Like 04 | Like 04 | Carlo: “You mean those black singers?”
Sara (o.s.): “No…” | / | / |
| 09 | 4" | Like 07 | Like 07 | Sara: “I mean that ancient myth, the Triad”
Carlo: “No, wait…” | / | / |
| 10 | 3" | Like 04 | Like 04 | Carlo: “… if you’re talking of ghosts or stuff, I’m sorry, but I don’t believe in those things” | / | / |
| 11 | 3" | Like 07 | Like 07, then Sara bends towards the turntable behind her. | Sara: “How can you be so sure?”
Carlo (o.s.): “I don’t believe in them, I don’t and that’s all” | / | / |
| 12 | 3" | Like 07 | Like 04 | Carlo: "Without any philosophical arguing" | / | / |
| 13 | 2" | Like 07 | Sara stays up for a second to talk with Carlo, then she bends down picking the turntable's arm. | Sara: "So, what do you believe in?" | / | / |
| 14 | 5" | Like 04 | Carlo stands, then, after he speaks, sits on the couch. | Carlo:
"In everything I can see… and touch (little laugh)" | Noise of Carlo sitting on the couch | / |
| 15 | 34" | A.P., fixed, then short pan to the left, horiz.; at the end we have a H.F. | Like 07: Sara looks at Carlo (o.s.), then turns to the turntable and put the arm on the record. When the music begins she stands up and goes a bit forward, talking to Carlo (o.s.) at her left. When she finishes to talk, bends her head downward to her left and then turns it slowly till she sees upward to her right. | Sara: "You probably know this music: it is Verdi's Va' pensiero". | Steps | Verdi's Va' pensiero begins (intradiegetic music), that will last till the end of the sequence |
| 16 | 5" | Master, fixed, slightly from below | The window of the living room, with the full moon covered by the clouds. | / | / | First strings forte |
| 17 | 5" | Like 16 | A part of the window, the sky and the moon, without clouds.. | / | / | Second strings forte |
| 18 | 5" | Like 16 | Only the moon. | / | / | Third strings forte |
| 19 | 16" | H.F., short pan left-right, then forward zoom to a C.U., horizontal | Sara enters from the left, then sits on the bed in her room, takes the telephone and dials a number; then she takes the letter (not seen) from behind her back. | Sara (at the phone): "Is it you, Mark? Here I have your sister's letter you forgot in the academy" | Noise of Sara sitting on her bed; noise of free line of the phone; noise of the dial; rustle of the letter. | The Va' pensiero continues, some measures before the entrance of the choir |
| 20 | 2" | M.S.,
fixed, horizontal | Between
Sara’s bedroom opened door and part of the wall it is visible the living
room: Carlo is on a couch, skimming through a newspaper: at the end he
turns to the camera. | Sara
(at the phone, o.s.): “Listen, have you read it?” | / | Enters
the choir of Va’ pensiero. |
| 21 | 5" | Like
19 | Sara
on her bed, talking at the phone. | Sara
(at the phone): “You must read it, it’s important! Come here now,
please. I need to speak with you!” | / | The
choir continues |
| 22 | 9" | Detail,
fixed, slightly from above | A
pair of black gloved hand pull a row of little black paper men, then,
starts to cut the head of one of them using a pair of scissors. | / | / | Like
21 |
| 23 | 2" | Detail,
forward zoom, slightly from above | A
lizard that keeps in its mouth a white butterfly, still moving. | / | / | Like
21 |
| 24 | 1" | Like
22 | The
gloved hands cut the second paper head. | / | / | Like
21 |
| 25 | 2" | A.P.,
slight forward zoom, from above | A
hanged woman violently swings, with her eyes and mouth open. | / | / | Like
21 |
| 26 | 1" | Like
22 | The
gloved hands cut the last two paper heads. | / | / | Like
21 |
| 27 | 3" | Master,
forward zoom, horizontal | Sara’s
building, taken from outside, then the central window. | / | / | Like
21 |
| 28 | 5" | H.F.,
fixed, horizontal | Sara
listens to the music sitting on her bed. The light goes away (blue
lighting) and the music stops: Sara looks to her left, then to the right,
to the lamp. Finally the light and the music are back on. | / | / | The
choir continues: when the light goes away, the music stops. |
| 29 | 1" | Detail.,
fixed, horizontal | The
lights goes away in the hallway. | / | / | / |
| 30 | 2" | Like
01 | as 29; light. as 28; | / | / | as 28 |
| 31 | 3" | C.U.,
fixed, horizontal | Carlo,
sitting in the dark, slowly turns to the camera. | / | / | / |
| 32 | 2" | Detail.,
fixed, horizontal | The
lamp turns on, then off, then on again. | / | / | Like
28 |
| 33 | 3" | Like
28 | Sara
sits on her bed: the light and the music turn on and off for three times.
Then she speaks to Carlo, o.s., to her left. | Sara:
“What’s happening?” | / | Like
28 |
| 34 | 2" | Like
20 | Between
the bedroom door and the wall it is visible the living room and Carlo
sitting on the couch. The lights turn on. | Carlo:
“I don’t know. Maybe a loss…” | / | Like
28 |
| 35 | 5" | Like
28 | Sara
is sitting on her bed, looking to the right and the left. The light goes
away and she screams, to her left, towards Carlo, o.s. |
Carlo
(o.s.): “…of tension” Sara:
“Carlo!”
Carlo
(o.s.): “Yes” | / | Like
28 |
| 36 | 3" | H.F.,
fixed, horizontal | Sara
sits on her bed: the light and the music turn on and off for three times.
Then she speaks to Carlo, o.s., to her left. | Sara:
“What’s happening?” | / | Like
28 |
| 37 | 3" | Like
28 | The
lights are on again: Sara is sitting on her bed, talking to her left. Then
the lights go away another time. | Sara:
“It’s in the cellar, over there, at the end of the hallway…” | / | Like
28 |
| 38 | 12" | Like
36; then short dolly upward, lateral trav. left-right, and following trav. | Carlo
is sitting on the couch, in the dark; then he stands up, the light and the
music come back and he goes from the coach to the hallway at his left.
Then again the lights go away. |
Sara
(o.s.): “…but please, don’t go there!”
Carlo:
“Don’t worry, I just want to check the switches”
Sara
(o.s.): “Ok, but keep talking to me, let me always know where
you are!”
Carlo:
“All right” | Steps | Like
28 |
| 39 | 15" | TOT,
forward trav., horizontal | Subjective
of Carlo, who goes on through the hallway, in the darkness. | / | / | / |
| 40 | 5" | Like
28 | Sara
is sitting on her bed, in the darkness. | Sara
(panting): “Carlo? Carlo, where are you?” | / | / |
| 41 | 2" | Master,
fixed, horizontal | The
dark hallway. | Carlo
(o.s.): “In the cellar, I’ve found the switches” | / | / |
| 42 | 5" | Like
28, then short upward dolly. | Sara
is sitting on her bed; then she stands up and goes leftward off screen | Sara:
“Wait, I’m coming, I’m frightened” | Steps | / |
| 43 | 2" | A.P.,
pan right-left, horizontal | Sara
strides through the living room and hits something that falls on the floor
breaking in pieces. She turns to see what happened. | Sara:
“Ah!” | Steps;
noise of broken glasses | / |
| 44 | 1" | Detail.,
fixed, from above | Pieces
of glass on the carpet. | / | / | / |
| 45 | 1" | Detail.,
fixed, from above | Pieces
of glass on the carpet. | / | / | / |
| 46 | 9" | M.F.,
following hand camera, horizontal | Sara
rapidly walks through the hallway, which initially is in the darkness,
heading to the door at the end of it. She often looks back. The light and
the music come and go for three times. At the end, with both the light and
the music on, Sara enters the cellar door. |
Sara:
“Carlo? My God, Carlo? Carlo, what’s happening?”
Carlo
(o.s.): “Nothing, I guess I’ve fixed it” | Steps | Like
28 |
| 47 | 5" | M.F.,
preceding hand camera, slightly from above | Sara
goes through the door and makes some step, looking inside the dark cellar
with a worried expression. | Carlo
(o.s.): “You see?” | / | The
choir of Va’ pensiero
continues |
| 48 | 3" | C.U.,
fixed, horizontal | Carlo
pops out from the left: he kneels down, with a knife in his neck. | / | / | Like
47 |
| 49 | 1" | H.F.,
fixed, horizontal | Sara
looks at Carlo with horror. | / | / | Like
47 |
| 50 | 4" | C.U.,
very short forward trav. , horizontal | Carlo
opens his mouth: a rill of blood comes out. Then he bends forward, to the
camera. | / | Sara’s
screams | Like
47 |
| 51 | 2" | Like
49 | Carlo
grips on Sara dragging her on the floor. | / | Sara’s
screams | Like
47 |
| 52 | 2" | C.U.,
fixed, from above | Sara
tries to free form Carlo’s grip: his hands are on her shoulders. | / | Sara’s
screams | Like
47 |
| 53 | 1" | C.U.,
fixed, from below | Gushes
of blood come out of Carlo’s mouth. | / | Sara’s
screams and Carlo’s gurgling | Like
47 |
| 54 | 1" | Like
52 | Like
52 | / | Like
53 | Like
47 |
| 55 | 1" | Like
53 | Like
53 | / | Like
53 | Like
47 |
| 56 | 4" | F.F.,
fixed, from above | Carlo
is on Sara, who tries to escape. | / | Like
53 | Like
47 |
| 57 | 1" |
C.U.,
fixed, horizontal
| Carlo
is agonising on Sara. | / | Like
53 | Like
47 |
| 58 | 2" | C.U.,
fixed, slightly from above | Carlo’s
hands, covered with blood, touch Sara’s face. | / | Like
53 | Like
47 |
| 59 | 1" | Like
57 | Carlo
is almost dying, and he looks up to his left. | / | Like
53 | Like
47 |
| 60 | 1" | Like
58 | Sara
keeps wriggling. | / | Sara’s
screams | Like
47 |
| 61 | 1" | Detail.,
fixed, horizontal | A
gloved hand comes out from a curtain. | / | Like
60 | Like
47 |
| 62 | 7" | Like
56 | Sara
keeps wriggling, trying to turn and to get on her hands and knees twice. | / | Like
60 | Like
47 |
| 63 | 1" | Like
57 | Carlo
is agonising. | / | Like
60 | Like
47 |
| 64 | 3" | C.U.,
fixed, slightly from above | Sara
is free and she looks back. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 65 | 1" | C.U.,
fixed, horizontal | A
black gloved hand takes the knife still thrust in Carlo’s neck. | / | Carlo’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 66 | 1" | Detail.,
fixed, horizontal | The
hand abruptly extracts the knife and goes off screen on the right. | / | Carlo’s
screams | Like
47 |
| 67 | 1" | Detail.,
fixed, horizontal | The
knife covered with blood enters the screen from the right. | / | / | Like
47 |
| 68 | 1" | Like
66 | Carlo,
with his mouth wide open, turns his glance up to his left. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 69 | 1" | Like
67 | The
knife goes off screen to the right. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 70 | 1" | V.C.U.,
fixed, horiz. | Carlo
is with his mouth open, turned to his left. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 71 | 2" | C.U.,
fixed, horizontal | Sara
is seen on three-quarter, from behind. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 72 | 1" | C.U.,
hand camera with slight movement downward and leftward, from above | Carlo
falls on the floor. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 73 | 1" |
| Sara
hardly stands up: her face goes off screen to the left. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 74 | 1" | Detail.,
fixed, horizontal | Sara
is almost standing up, when the knife enters the screen from the right and
penetrates in the lower part of Sara’s back. This hit pushes Sara
forward and her body goes off screen to the left. | / | Sara’s
screams | Like
47 |
| 75 | 2" | C.U.,
fixed, horizontal | Sara
opens her mouth for the pain and bends forward, till she goes off screen
down on the left. | / | Sara’s
screams | Like
47 |
| 76 | 12" | H.F.,
fixed, slightly from above | Sara,
flat out, tries to extract the knife from her back, with no success. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 77 | 1" | C.U.,
fixed, slightly from above | Carlo
is dead on the floor. | / | Sara’s
groans | Like
47 |
| 78 | 2" | Detail.,
fixed, horizontal | The
gloved hand closes a door. | / | / | Like
47 |
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