Mud Boy

This film is quite shocking and this is what we want to in-cooperate into our short Drama/Thriller film.

This film is shocking because as the audience we have no idea the girl is about to uncover her 'missing' brother. The fact when she discovers him when he's dead is even more shocking. We want to make the audience as shocked as this when creating out short film but not in the same way. The little girl is very young looking about 8/9, so it's not the type of thing you would want anybody to discover let alone a young girl.

The thing i like about this is that the storyline is hard to understand at first as i thought she discovered her brother Alive. Then it isn't until right near the end when i realised he was obviously dead. This makes the film more interesting as it questions the audience a lot.

They have used a lot of shot reverse shot so the viewers can see who is talking when the girl is talking to her 'dead' brother outside.

A lot of the lighting in this seems to be natural lighting as most of the film is shot outside.

When the police officer is taking the girl away the shot is shallow depth of field. Allowing the background to not be noticed as it's blurred so the audience concentrate on the police officer and girl. I hope we can use this in our film so the audience can concentrate on what we want them to the most. Therefore we need to make the main things in focus and the less important thing out of focus in some shots.