Short thrillerLuke Powell, Hasan Hussain, Bharathy Ravindran, Malcolm

Bruley and Molly Doyle

Introduction

Our short film is titled Cause and Effect, which focuses on a boy time travelling to save his best

friend from death.

Our Film

In the film the Protagonist is Aaron, whereas the Antagonist is Ryker.

Aaron needs to save his best friend after he finds him dead in an alley.

He hopes that by him going back in time he can prevent this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBLMv7vxMZc

What is a Thriller?

The main aim of a thriller is to excite the audience and to leave the audience in suspense.

Movies such as The Dark Knight, The silence of the lambs and Taken are thrillers.

Just some examples of different thriller genres are spy thrillers, political thrillers and romantic

thrillers.

Codes and Conventions

Characters and Story

Cinematography

Editing

Sound

Codes in our film

In our film we have numerous codes and conventions that help to make it a thriller such as:

A protagonist and an antagonist

An antagonist who is revealed over time

Music to build tension

Close ups of our characters

Cross cutting

A twist

Target Audience

The demographic age of our audience for the short film is males of the age 15.

Due to males of this age being more interested in guns and violence.

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What elements in your film will appeal to them?Thrill.

The mood of the location.

The age group

Why is your film suitable for the target audience?The Age group.

The clothing.

The language and music.

The way the film was edited.

Was the production successful?

Overall, yes the production was a success although there were a few hiccups

Some special effects had to be sacrificed due to time issues

We had to reshoot some scenes so the movie would flow more

What did we do well?

The actor played his part well

Everyone was able to tend filming days

Most equipment was functional

We did not have problems with the authority or residents

What would you do differently?

We would make sure vital paperwork was fully finished before filming

Make sure our story spanned 5 minutes

Make a more immersive and creative story

Finish everything well before deadline

Research

We had to research what made up a thriller movie.

We had to research time travel for our story to make sense.

Ways in which we could communicate time travel to the audience

Audience

We asked peoples opinion of our short movie

We asked them how much of a thriller movie our production was out of 10

Thank you for listening