Short Sequence Analysis

The intention of my group was to make a short sequence of a film that is around a minute long, we did 9 shots for the sequence using lots of different angles. Our film is designed mainly to be a thriller with a slight sense of horror, we didn't want it to become a horror completely, because we didn't want it to become too different in for the audience with the clip we have done. I hope to make the audience feel tense while watching this and question what will happen next after the clip.


My target audience for the whole film is aged 15 and upwards but that clip has't got a lot of violence or anything else to make that bad so the clip would be rated at a PG. If we were to make the film more violent and rate it to an 18, then it will shorten our customers to watching the film because everyone under 18 will not be able to watch the film. The reason why we chose to do a 15 though was because it is a lot more flexible to actually have different ideas, if we had to do anything lower we are limited to doing less violent shots that would be too uncomfortable for a 12 year old. So with a 15 we can expand on that and show more violent shots to scare the audience and entertain them a lot more.


The aspects of the clip that are thriller, however we did not show anything in this shot that would show the themes of a thriller or violent movie. But we thought that this shot is building up the tension in the film thinking that other people won't know what will come next. This is key in thrillers and are needed because it is needed to engage the audience and sometimes shock them when we chose to shock them afterwards. We wanted this sequence to be unrevealing because we felt it will keep the audience guessing more and will definitely want to stay and see what will happen after the sequence. A lot of modern thrillers use today so we used this to help us do our sequence.