The Voices (2014) focuses on mentally unstable Jerry, who hears his dog and cat talk to him and converses with them, who by accident kills a coworker who he covers up and keeps her head in the fridge which also starts to talk to jerry. Jerry must try and remain on top of his work and make sure none discovers his new murdering ways.
The scene opens to a dreary and dull establishing shot, where we see dark green skinny trees hanging lankily over an empty stained grey road where in the background in the distance we see a power plant releasing black smog into the air, We are told exactly where the scene is being set in a town called "Milton" which is shown on a brown scarped and tarnished sign on the right hand side of the camera, setting dull and dreary mood to the audience making it seem as though it is the type of town that goes along without having anything interesting happen there, as on the sign it states that they have a population of 504 people.
The non diegetic sound of a slow paced but somewhat upbeat guitar based track starts to play, where we then cut to the power plant we previously saw, with multiple towers blowing black smog from their tops in a low angled shot, making the towers seem bold and powerful both making the audience view it as a dominating part of Milton and also as a polluting and boring operation. Following this we cut to a dark lighted and dreary factory where we see a bright pink truck saying "Milton-fixture and faucet" on the back of the truck. The mise en scene of the truck show that having an illuminating colour in the dreary and low lighted setting is an attempt to bring some joyous type of setting to their town and to possible customers that they would want to attract. The factory itself was also rusted and unclean in parts with puddles on the floor, making it seem as though the town doesn't have good weather in their area and it rains often.
The opening credits start to roll and we see this on a black background with a ginger cartoon cat watching as a cartoon knife stabs the back background making blood spill onto the surface, by having this threatening and what should be frightening scene in a cartoon theme, makes it seem quite childish and makes it seem as though the person who is stabbing and causing the blood is quite like a child in this way and could see it as a game, also with it being matched with a light hearted song makes the film set a satirical type of mood, that means it could take some dark turns along the course of the film.
We then cut to a more light setting inside, where the camera is in a medium close up shot of blue and silver cables and wires that seem still like an eye sore panning downwards to show a male character wearing a bright pink jumpsuit just like the truck, showing we are now inside the factory. We then see an extreme closeup of someones had sticking on a sticker to a bath, then cutting back to the black screen with the cat walking across this time with a saw sticking through the background with blood spilling again. This gives off the impressions that one, the ginger cat is heavily involved in the possibility that people are getting hurt and two that this will happen on more than one occasion. The camera then cuts again to the factory workers building and working on a bath in a bright lighting, making it seem happier and more of a lively setting than both outside and on the credits, making the impression that all the bad things that occur will be behind closed doors.
We then see the edit of polystyrene falling in a slow motion medium shot into a bath in order to package it in its box presumably for shipping. Then quickly cuts again to the black screen where this time a heavy knife appears to slam down and blood sprays everywhere also onto the cats paw to which he licks off meaning that this character isn't bothered by murder but intact thrives off of it.
The scene is again cut onto two workers boxing up a bath where the camera remains for a while,, giving the male character whose face we can see prevalence and makes the audience believe that this is one of the most important characters in the film due to the amount of time he has been given in shot so that the audience can concentrate on him. We then cut to an over the shoulder shot of a different staff worker that is working on a computer printing out bills of order and we see a close up of a worker scanning them, but them immediately go back to the character previously shown working a device that carried the boxes around in a wide shot, making the audience realise he's supposedly just like all the other workers there, but paired with the opening credits makes them wonder if he is all he seems to be.
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