Reflective analysis - 8 shot film sequence

• My intention was to produce a short sequence of film falling into the genres of both comedy and thriller, as it has conventions of a thriller film but is so over the top that it comes across as comedic. I hoped to create a sequence with overly dramatic actions that would make the audience laugh, almost as if we were making fun of the thriller genre.

• The target audience for this piece of film is the members of the film studies class, 16 - 18 year old male and females who have some good knowledge of film and can identify the irony or sarcasm that we tried to use in making this sequence. Also, teenagers can relate to the feeling of horror that we experience when we lose our phone.

• The conventions of thriller that we used were intense music to build up suspense and make the audience worry about what will happen to our character's phone. We also used a non-diegetic heartbeat sound effect to raise the tension and make the audience feel the worry and fear that the character is feeling at the loss of their phone. To make the scene comedic, we used overly dramatic non-diegetic sound in a situation that wasn't all that dramatic as well as making sure the sequence blew the situation out of proportion.