- Begins with 'Previously on Orphan Black' - clues audience in on the past events that are relevant to the particular episode
- This includes lines voicing over montages of relevant clips
- Covers all the different storylines but assumes that the viewer has some knowledge of the show's premise
Sarah scene
- quick cuts create confusion and uncertainty about location
- Cutting from dark blue tinged shots to brighter yellow tinged shots - change in location, yellow tinge helps connote flashback, juxtaposition
- Jumping in location adds to confusion
- Sounds as if underwater - emphasizes shock, Felix's voice cuts through confusing noise
- Quick cuts of CUs of her body and people examining - fragments her, dehumanised, treated as scientific subject rather than person
- Voices over reaction shot of face - separated, blame, tiredness
- can't see full faces of people examining - viewer knows same limited info as Sarah, outs us on her side - we can't empathise with anyone else
- music vs more silence accompanying the isolating LS of her one her own
- Change in pace from fast cuts to one long in duration shot of Sarah giving self up
Titles
Sarah Scene
- Does'nt establish setting but pan up from hand cuffs shows that she is incarcerated
- Audience allowed to see the one way window in interrogation room but not interrogators face - not given priveleged info but making clear that she is being scrutinised
- CUs of objects on table
- Electronic rills put us on edge as Sarah is
- Sarah demands to see Kira
Cuts to Kira Scene
- Begins with long medical equipment - could be a needle (threatening invasive) but isn't - delayed reveal
- Starts with CU so not sure which storyline but greater yellow tone shows it is set in a different place
- Put on Kira's side - see her steal something from unaware nurse
- Put on side of characters we recognize
- Lots of CUs of Kira's face show secrecy
- We get to see her calling under the blanket
- She knows more than us - all the voice on the phone says is 'hello' creating enigma
Kazzima Scene
- Fast cuts of lab begin scene so initially feel a little displaced
- Recognisable characters show us where we are not establishing shots
- Master shot positions different scientists in relation to each other after initial confusion
- 'This is all on Rachel's orders'
Cuts to Rachel scene
- Begins with CU of first Rachel (establishing her authority) then Deplhine - power balance
- master shot of them both in lift together
- Cut from LA to normal angle - Dephine's words regaining some power putting Rachel in the wrong 'If you let her die without me it is personal'
- Shot lingers on Delphine alone in the lift - her reaction. doors shutting emphasize the fact she is getting out her phone - know that Delphine is not out of the story yet, not passively giving up
Kazzima Scene
- Pan up from Kazzima's breathing apparatus - don't initially know its her - we learn at the same time that other scientist says that they need delphine
- We are able to see what security guy can't due to the cutaways to Kazzima's laptop screen
- Talk about the plans for Sarah
Sarah Scene
- Establishing shot of window and cameras in interrogation room
- 'Look at me do I really need to sign' accompanied by CU of handcuffs - highlighting her point, camera pans up to Dr's face showing power relationship
- Match on action of Sarah throwing down pen first in CU then in MS
- 'Take me to her' plus shot from door suggests some movement is going to take place
Kira Scene
- Pan up from tea set - still just a child, innocence, play acting and understanding of pretense
- Cut to MS shows Kira has no playmates
- Cuts from Security camera view to Sarah arriving in room with monitors
- Juxtaposition of pink girliness with darkness of monitoring room
- Cut from Sarah watching through one way mirror to a shot of the mirror from inside Kira's room, Kira reaction shot showing her looking at it then she says 'Is my mum here yet' - dramatic irony
- Shot reverse shot of Rahcel manipulating Kira cutaway to Sarah's face reacting to their words from within the security room
- OTS through mirror of Rachel moving towards Sarah whose face is relfected in the glass cuts to LA of Rachel threatening - shows how she uses her greater knowledge as power
- Music builds up to cut to black
Mrs S and Felix
- Establishing shot of snowy outside of house
- Pans from Felix to Mrs S - reveal both to the character and to us about car bombs
- Learn who is at the door after character - but we realise who it is at same time - starts with Cu of hand moving curtain to checl, Mrs S asking who it is, then shot of Cal
- Shot reverse shot from Cal's shoulder to Felix and Mrs S seperately - S and F divided, common unknown
- Master shot as Felix picks up phone
- 'Arthur' 'What do you mean who'
Cuts to Arthur's house
- starts with CU of Art so we don't know immeadiately
- Helena with back turned
- 'Hello cestra brother'
Cuts back to Felix reacting
- CU of him saying 'Holy shit', focus on his face
- Cut MCU him whispering to Mrs S that Helena's back
- Cuts between different ends of phone conversation
- CU of Cal listening in with Mrs S in the blurred foreground
- Build up to music briges over the
Cut to Sarah scene
- MLS of Sarah down prison corridor
- Cuts from front to profile of Sarah
- OTS of Sarah but she sees who the shoulder belongs to before us
- Cuts from profile of Duncan passing her to over her turned shoulder as he is turning round to speak to her
- As lift doors shut cuts back to Duncan being led away back to Sarah's face - wonder what she will do with this information
Helena Scene
- Signalled by Tracking past piles of uneaten food
- Match on action CU of Helena turning to talk to Art to MS of Art listening
- OTS reveals that Felix is there
- 'She had a crisis of faith
Gracie Scene
- Establishing shot of truck driving down snowy road
- Cut to inside of truck
- piano music as they hold hands
Cal Scene
- CU circling the words 'dyad group' as he starts to explain
- OTS of his mind map
- Master shot reveals he is in Mrs S's house
- mindmap matches with their conversation about the Dyad's grouppower and attempt to influence genetic patent law
- Cuts to computer conversation
- Impact sound as response 'ask her about castor' appears
- Cut to establishing shot of garage
- Pan up from Stomach leaves us uncertain for a bit who is the centre of this scene
- Build up of people coming out of truck - uncertain who Mrs S's insider is
- Another pan up from the feet leaves us geusiing until Paul is revealed - suspense
- Shot reverse shot - CUs untrusting, tnese
- Details of 'plan' not revealed to us
Cut to Duncan Scene
- See family video before we see who is watching it
- Cut from back of head to front to see reaction
- Wide shots show isolation - far from the closeness they are shown to have had in the family video
- Cut aways to 'own' tea bag and water pouring from kettle
- CUs of his head - its importance
- Rachel CU in foreground with Duncan in background when she turns away - he is in her past, distance, inability to force him
- Cut from present day Rachel to MCU of her in the home video whilst Duncan voice asks her about her memories
- Faster cuts from past video to future death as he is revealing to have poisoned himself, linking in with Rachel referencing the past 'You can't leave me again!'
Mrs S scene
- Shot of them drinking tea as Mrs S had suggested at the end of their last scene
- Car enters while they talk - door disguises who is behind it
- highlighted metallic sound as Cal is revealed and cut to CU of Paul - closest shot to his face so far - stand off between Sarah's lovers
- Castor also slowly revealed
- Can't see what is inside orange file that Paul goves to Castor woman - enigma surrounding her
Kazzima and Kira Scene
- Establishing shot from security camera of the two together on her bed
- Pans up to different monitor of security camera closer
- Panning from screens to mirror as Kira gets excited
- Yellow room vs blue screens
- Kazzima voice over talking about force as camera cuts to her and Scott working in lab
- Shot reverse shot of Kazzima teaching Kira
- Kazzima sharpening pencil in lab then cutting back to Kira suggesting they make the pencil sharper with Kazzima says is 'a really good idea'
- Music becomes less desperate and more actiony
- Then 'tyring speed' - Kira is able to push pencil through paper
- After experiment cuts back to security room and Kazzima falling over in lab
- 'We're only gonna get one chance'
Sarah scene
- Wide shots
- Profil of her being strapped down
- Fast cuts between shaky cam as Sarah is suddenly is unknown danger
- Fish eye lens used
- Cutaway to trolley wheel
- focus change from scalpel to Sarah's body
- voices without faces
- Beeping
- Cutting between lots of different angles of a MCU of Sarah's face
- Suddenly slower as Sarah is finally revealed in an isolating LS to be stapped into a medical bed
- CU of rachel talking about Duncan's death
- Cutting between picture and Sarah as she slowly realises the plan
- Cutting between CUs of Sarah and slo mo ECUs of Rachel smashiing bone marrow test tubes
- Quick shots of Rachel getting shot in the eye to minimize what we see fast paced cuts as Sarah escapes, lingering MCU of Rachel with a pencil in her eye
- tense music vs long in duration LS as Sarah has to act normal
- Shot reverse shot of kira and Sarah vs Meriam
- Quick cuts as Sarah is eager to stay but is held back by Meriam's information
- Lingers on door shutting on Meriam but crescendo of music before cuts to black warns still may be some danger
- Hear rather than see that Cal is waiting outside to take them home
- Cuts to outside of Felix's apartment and Cal's voice '
- MCUs of Alison and Kazzima reacting to Cal
- Cut to apartment hall
- OTS shot reverse shot of them talking in the hallway
- Kiss whilst footsteps tell us someone is coming
