Prop Research

In Orphan Esther uses a hammer to kill one of the charcters. As seen here:


A hammer is usually seen as being something distuctive. Usually used in building. Using it to kill someone as a prop gives you that sense of danger and brutal death. The hammer is seen as being more scary as you see it alone in shots from low angles making it seem more intimidating and controlling. Becuase the hammer is seen as a distructive object it suggests that she is destroying her.

In the final scene Ester tries killing of more characters. In this scene a knife and gun is used.



The knife is again shown in its own shot from a low angle as if its the point of view that the person who is being attacked can see. The knife has blood on again producing more fear to the audience; because one the colour red suggests danger and it being blood gives the feeling that someone has been stabbed by it.