Sarah wakes up alone in a dark hospital room lit by a spotlight, connected to an IV drip. She is dressed in a hospital gown and has makeup applied to look pale and show cuts on her face. When she leaves her room, the dark hallway lights begin shutting off, leaving her in darkness. Diegetic sounds like the heart monitor and lights clicking off are exaggerated to build tension as she searches for someone alone. Non-diegetic dramatic music is also used to create suspense as she runs down the hallway and sadness when she finds her daughter did not survive.

1. Unit 1
Mise-en-scene and Sound
Hospital
Jessica Owen

2. Lighting
• The lighting that is used when Sarah first
appears in the hospital is like there's a
spotlight on her. This is because she's lighted
up well and the rest of room is in darkness.
• When she goes into the hallway, its lighted up
well until the lights start turning off to leave
her in darkness.

3. Props
• The only prop in the hospital clip is the IV drip
because obviously its not real, so they use a
prop to recreate it. This is the only prop in this
scene because this is the only thing Sarah
interacts with.

4. Costume
• To make this scene more realistic, Sarah is
dressed in a hospital gown to show clearly
where she is as soon as she wakes up.
• Make-up is used on Sarah firstly to make her
look pale, to show she isn’t well. In addition,
make-up is used to create the cuts on her lip
and eye because anyone who experienced
that sort of crash wouldn’t come away scratch
free.

5. Colour
• Colour is similar to the lighting, its very dark
when she wakes up, except with a spot light
on her. Even when she enters the corridor, it
looks dark and even abandoned to show how
alone she is. Until she runs into Beth, and the
lights go back to normal.

6. Diegetic
• The heart monitor is a diegetic sound because it
actually there and not put over the top in editing.
In addition, the sound of the lights turning off as
she is running down the corridor is diegetic
because even though it wouldn’t be that loud you
can still hear it.
• All the diegetic sounds are over exaggerated in
the scene to enhance the horror and build the
tension as she is running away from the darkness
to create suspense.

7. Non-Diegetic
• Similar to the cave scene, there isn’t many
non-diegetic sounds used. However, the music
that is played while she is running down the
corridor is added to create tension and
suspense because it makes you think
something is going to happen. In addition, sad
music is also added when she runs into Beth
and they are both crying. This is to clearly
show that both Sarah’s husband and daughter
didn’t survive the crash.