Panic Room

The beginning of Panic Room starts with a reference to an Alfred Hitchcock film in the credits where they are shown against urban city buildings, this is accompanied by non-diegetic string music which is quite dark. The music and credits then stop and it shows two women walking with a young boy on a scooter which is one of the women’s son. The women and boy are then shown around a house by an estate agent, the boy is still going around the house on his scooter but then is promptly told to stop. The women are shown onto the upper floors of the house and they are shown into the master bedroom where the woman notices the room being smaller than it should be, the estate agent then shows them the panic room which is integral to the plot of the film later on. Throughout the house there is a dark colour pallet throughout the house and the only sources of light are natural light shining through the window.