1. Identify the genre/s or style/s used. Providing micro evidence of conventions used in the film in terms of style or content (eg icongraphy, mis en scene, sound, narrative structure, themes and issues, characterisation...)
Joyride is a British short thriller directed and written by Jim Gillespie lasting 10 minutes. The features of a thriller are clear from the beginning. Using a desolate location of a country road the victim (Christopher Fulford) is an electrician repairing a sparking power line. The mise en scene shows his isolation through a high angle shot taken from above the power line, which ironically is used again later in the film. The film uses pace to create tension. For example the film begins very slowly, using a variety of mid shots and close ups. The lead is kidnapped by a group of thugs and hit over the head knocking him out. Whilst inside the boot the pace becomes much quicker as does the beat of the music, tension and pace is built up by using lots of straight cuts between close up and extreme close ups inside the boot, to outside the car, to the approaching police car. The film ends
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