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Only one light is on, making it appear more dull and lifeless, as if the room goes on forever. The use of the handheld camera provides tremor to the scene, thus complementing the tremor voices that are heard. The camera then continues to pan across the high school. As the archived emergency call changes to a panicked teacher, the footage changes as well. Now let's see what the CCTV surveillance cameras captured, once again reinforcing the authenticity of the event. The use of archival footage has a significant impact on the emotional state of the audience as we witness the realism of the event. The black and white video monitor presents a very stark contrast to what we had previously seen walking down the halls of the High School. Before the scene was still dull and lifeless, but you could still see the color in the building, but now we are able to see the cold reality of the crisis in black and white. The color changes portray the disturbing experience in a symbolic way. Students dive under tables, crawling for their safety, hoping not to be victims. The audience acquires a natural maternal instinct to want to help, but knowing they can't, they feel hopeless. This is reinforced by the teacher's voiceover yelling "boys under tables, heads under tables." A small bomb is then thrown by the two assassins, Moore uses the sound to further attract the viewer's attention. Like the