Panic room is about a mother and daughter who have just moved into a big new house that has a security panic room which noone else can get into when the doors are closed. They hide in it when three armed robbers break into their house. What they don't know is that what the robbers want is thousands of pounds held in the room they are hiding in.

This sequence uses lots of jerky camera movements to portray the action happening within the film. the film trailer is very busy and gets faster towards the end. the scene cuts every two seconds.A lot of it is just scenes that have been cut. some scenes contain no sound, this means it is diegetic. The non diegetic sound shows tension that the characters are feeling. they are helpless and this is shown through the determenation of the robbers, they wont leave until they get the thousands of pounds that are inside the panic room.

The trailer uses a voice over that helps connect the viewer to the basics of the story line. This is non diegetic sound. This is when words are not being heard by the characters. They can't hear whats being said. This is helping the viewer to engage in the film without giving it all away. The trailer uses some of the best parts in the film to make the viewer want to see more.

Cinematography - The camera scans the panic room quite close up just to show the viewer how safe it is. It is something different and shown as something very significant.


The mis en scene of the film is a typical, modern big New york house.