Hide and Seek - Abbie Lacey, Hannah Moore and Ellie Fetcher

Similarly to My group and Daryl, we watched Abbie, Hannah and Ellie do a presentation also on the four elements in the horror film 'Hide and Seek'. It is a 2005 horror film staring Robert De Nero and was
directed by John Polson.

- The first thing we hear is the non-diagetic sound of the music, it is very child-like music and links to the title as we all used to play hide and seek when we were younger.
- There is not much natural light it is quite dark and gloomy, this sets the tone of the film.
- Man walks up and the fact that he is in dark clothes and wearing glasses suggests that this character may have two sides to him and two different personalities. The dark clothes also makes the audience feel quite unsure about this character.
- When the woman was outside she was in bright colours but now she is inside she seems quite depressed and is in black, the contrast of these colours may suggest that there is something not quite right.
- Red lipstick, jewellery, nails etc represent death and blood and could be the signs of something that is going to happen to her.
- Man (father) has his glasses off, this shows that he is not hiding anything but then when they start to argue and talk to each other he puts the glasses back on to show that he may have something to hide.
- She takes off all her jewellery and this could represent that she is leaving bits of her behind for people to remember, she is going to get in the bath but she commits suicide so she is leaving her jewellery in memory of her.
- He wakes up and is walking very slowly towards the bathroom, this builds tension, shot looks like he is being followed. The asynchronous sounds of the dripping tap also builds tension and adds curiosity for the audience.
- He slides the door of the bath open and see's his wife in a pool of blood, the colour is seen to have drained form her and into the water. Music now turns quite echoey and quite mysterious.