SHORT FILM ANAYLSIS

Ideas for thrillers

Jumper-

·       Dark colour scheme.

·       Different range of camera movements and angles.

·       Stalker/follower.

·       Close up shots on facial expressions- shows clearer image of what the character is feeling.

·       Lighting is dark.

·       Setting is night time.

·       Location is in a business building elevator then it goes outside into a car.

·       Sound goes quiet then louder for tension.

Run-

·       Background is blurred.

·       Range of camera movements and angles.

·       Location is in a park.

·       Colour scheme is bright.

·       Kidnapping/stalker?

·       Isolated area.

·       Music is quite calm then it becomes upbeat as another actor’s vehicle approaches.

·       Setting is day time and late afternoon.

 

Scratch-

·       Weapon- connotes violence.

·       The sound is quiet.

·       Location is in a desert.

·       Setting is day time.

·       Colour scheme is quite plain (not much colour).

·       Background is blurred.

·       Range of camera movements and angles.

Analysis of the thrillers

The audience has been positioned to see the characters in the films as scared or shocked so it can match the genres as a whole and the characters has to be seen as serious. The male gaze theory has been used in ‘Run’ because the woman wears a sports bra and sport shorts (that reveals parts of the body) and in ‘Jumper’ because the woman wears a dress (revealing the shoulders and the rest of the arm and maybe the bottom half of the leg), but stereotyping hasn’t been used in any of the short films. I want to use the idea of a stalker because I think it’ll match the genre that I am doing and it’ll keep the audience wanting to carry on watching and it’ll cause tension. I want to also use a different range of camera shots and movements because it’ll make the film less boring and it’ll have different point of views. I also want the film setting to be both day and night because depending on what happens it’ll contrast between the two settings. 

I've completed this task the way it is because I needed ideas for what I could include in my short film. What I've done is I went onto word and YouTube to study and analysis three short films because I needed ideas for what I could include in my film to make it match the genre. I think it will have an impact on my film if I include some of the ideas I've wrote down.