Scene 1
- Starts from a black screen, silent
- Muffled sound, just a child speaking as the picture fades in severely unfocussed
- Wide shot, characters are in the centre, sat on the floor. Child is being cradled by the girl
- Picture starts to come into focus and the child's words become more clear
- We can now see the image more clearly and hear that the child is asked where their parents are, teenage girl is upset but clearly trying to be strong, she doesn't speak
- Soft non-diegetic sound starts to come in as the picture becomes more clear signifying sadness and tragedy
- Colours are harsh and blue toned connoting loneliness and sadness
- Camera is steady, totally stationary, only the focus changes
Scene 2
- Really loud gunshot as the screen cuts to black, very severe, contrasts with the muffled softness of the opening scene.
- Silence
- After a couple of seconds we get a green line entering the screen accompanied by the diegetic sounds of a heart monitor. This carries the credits in
- As we reach the end of the credits we get the diegetic sounds of a hospital fading in, slowly becoming louder and louder
- Then, after the final credit, the line goes flat and we get one continuous beep. The diegetic hospital sound reaches a climax
Scene 3
- We cut from the black screen to a bright white hospital setting. Everyone's dressed in white and I would like to experiment with shining a light into the camera to create a severe glare.
- Camera is low down looking up at people moving around and in front of it, obscuring our view of the setting. There's a table which we're not underneath but are looking up at so we can't see what's on top of it
- Very hectic, camera is steady
- Lots of diegetic hospital sounds - beeps! talking, medical terminology, doors banging, wheels on the floor, phones ringing, trays clanging etc.
- We can pick up certain words like, "Cardiac arrest," so the audience has an idea of what's going on but still feels small and scared
Scene 4
This is really the same as scene 3 except with flashbacks cutting in and out. All flashbacks have quiet sound to contrast with the hospital setting.
- Defibrillator is brought out to cue the flashbacks, each flashback is introduced by the use of the defibrillator on the patient
- First flashback: Happy family, sat together on a sofa, mid-shot of them laughing
- Cut back to hospital setting but the camera is no longer so low down, we've moved up so are higher in the scene and have a better view of what's going on. Camera is stationary, it doesn't move whilst we're watching it
- Second flashback: Close-up of the girl listening to the radio where there's a news report about a mass murderer. This identifies the girl as the main character. Handheld camera work, shows her life's losing control, it's about to be destroyed
- Back to the hospital and the camera is now positioned higher up looking down on the table where we can see a patient's feet
- Third flashback: Girl is sobbing holding her heart, close-up of her again and handheld, reflects her loss of stability - dark lighting
- Back in the hospital the camera has moved up her body so we can now see her torso
- Fourth flashback: The girl is running through the woods, handheld really unstable camera work following her, tells the audience she's being chased
- Back in the hospital for the last time and the camera is right over her face in a close-up so we can see it's the girl. Her face is bruised and bloody connoting that she's been attacked - the person in the woods caught her
- The girl's eyes fly open and she sits up bringing her face towards the camera screaming really loudly
Title
- Screen cuts to black and the title fades in with some soft, sinister non-diegetic sound, a little like the soundtrack to the 'Stranger Things' opening.
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