Analysis of a sequence of the film, Under the skin
I felt that in the scene, the lack of speech from the characters helps to create an unnerving feeling. A similar affect is created due to the lack of music as due to the absence of all sound, something that is rather common place in most forms of cinema and media in general, it leaves the viewer or viewers to theorise what is going on. I felt like some of the visuals found in that same scene also helped to seem unnerving. My main choice to prove this would be the part with the ant. For some reason the woman allows an ant to crawl onto her hand . When the camera soon moves in on the ant, we see it moving and it creates a feeling of disgust, at least to me, due to the fact that bugs are commonly seen as filthy insects, their segmented bodies wriggling, their mandibles moving in and out like pincers on a puny crab combating it's predators and it's twig like legs helping it scurry on to the woman's hand with swiftness and wonder. 
During the first scene, I felt that, similarly to most of the scenes in the clip, the mixtures of visuals and audio helped to create an unsettling atmosphere. First of all I shall begin by discussing the audio. During the scene, there is almost a total absence of sound. I say almost as during the scene, chanting of some sort can be heard, without music and the chanting being almost inaudible. Once again it creates an unnerving feeling as it is one of the only times people speak in the clip and yet it seems so distant from our focus and so we cannot recognise what is being said. This, coupled with the visuals, helps to make the introduction confusing and eerie. Speaking of the visuals, during the introduction they are fantastic. During the first few moments of the clip, the scene is almost pitch black with different gradients of darkness with sphere of piercing light near the centre of the shot. As the scene progresses, we move away from the previously established centre of focus and the already discussed 'chanting' cues in. A more sinister feeling sets in as we begin to zoom out and see more and more of our centre of focus until we see that what we have been looking at for the past minute or so. WE have been looking at an iris. As we continue to focus on the complete eye ball watching the iris shrink which implies the person whose eye we are looking at is not having an enjoyable time and/or is watching something unpleasant. Watching the eye and iris move and shrink is a rather grotesque image.
Finally, I felt that the usage of cuts between scenes helps add to the mysterious and unsettling atmosphere. For examples when we go from the eye and then the driving scene and from that the white room scene the cuts contain no context which adds to the mystery.
During the first scene, I felt that, similarly to most of the scenes in the clip, the mixtures of visuals and audio helped to create an unsettling atmosphere. First of all I shall begin by discussing the audio. During the scene, there is almost a total absence of sound. I say almost as during the scene, chanting of some sort can be heard, without music and the chanting being almost inaudible. Once again it creates an unnerving feeling as it is one of the only times people speak in the clip and yet it seems so distant from our focus and so we cannot recognise what is being said. This, coupled with the visuals, helps to make the introduction confusing and eerie. Speaking of the visuals, during the introduction they are fantastic. During the first few moments of the clip, the scene is almost pitch black with different gradients of darkness with sphere of piercing light near the centre of the shot. As the scene progresses, we move away from the previously established centre of focus and the already discussed 'chanting' cues in. A more sinister feeling sets in as we begin to zoom out and see more and more of our centre of focus until we see that what we have been looking at for the past minute or so. WE have been looking at an iris. As we continue to focus on the complete eye ball watching the iris shrink which implies the person whose eye we are looking at is not having an enjoyable time and/or is watching something unpleasant. Watching the eye and iris move and shrink is a rather grotesque image.
Finally, I felt that the usage of cuts between scenes helps add to the mysterious and unsettling atmosphere. For examples when we go from the eye and then the driving scene and from that the white room scene the cuts contain no context which adds to the mystery.
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