s and reams of paper. From behind, Jack emerges, startles her and asks: "How do you like it?" Dread-filled, she jumps from fright, turning to see Jack's smiling, demonically insane, shining face. Jack's mental vulnerabilities and failings have been uncovered by his nagging wife, and he reacts with a mixture of embarrassment, possession, and projected rage.
The music during this scene is very intense. It starts off quite gradually and faint, while Wendy walks into the room with a baseball bat in her hand. The soundtrack is a mere hum at this point whilst the sound of her footsteps echo through the huge room (the reverb could perhaps be likened to that of a haunted castle?). ¡§Jack¡K¡ She calls. The soundtrack begins to transform into a very erie shrieking sort of noise as the camera angle changes to behind the typewriter, looking up at Wendy¡s worried face filling with disbelief. The music grows to a harsh moaning and a quick shot of the page is shown. Wendy moves the paper a little and the typewriter makes a clicking noise, then she moves the paper a bit more (I think this subtle noise adds to the tension) revealing the same phrase repeated over and over again. At this point she glances to her left at a large ream of paper and the camera zooms in on a block of many hundreds of pages with the exact same passage. With this camera change the music grows to a soundtrack strengthening your perception of both Jack¡s Madness and Wendy¡s terror at the same time: A violent, shrieking, horrible, noisy clash of string sounds describing terror and madness? I find it very difficult to describe the music and I think that that in its self shows its intensity.
The music still continues to rise accompnied now only by the sound of Wendy frantically flicking through the pages on the desk in complete and utter despair. The camer
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