Intentions and Plan for Short Film

I intend to make a fast paced action thriller for my film.  The film is about a boy whose parents were killed by a secret organisation and after being kidnapped by the same organisation he escapes and begins training so that he can fight them.

The opening section of the film is the boy escaping from the organisation who have captured him and have begun interrogating him. He is inside a small dark room. The initial shot is a wide shot of the room with the boy sat on a chair in the middle next to a dim light. He has his hands tied behind his back. An interrogator then comes into view and begins to beat the boy during which the boy has flashbacks of his parents being killed and him being kidnapped. As the interrogator goes to get a weapon the boy is able to break free from the ropes around his hands, he attacks the interrogator and then escapes.

In the sequence the boy would be established as the main character and we would learn about his past through the use of the flashbacks. The opening sequence would be slow during the present scenes but the flashbacks would be fast paced and quickly edited to give the impression that it is a flashback.

Tense music would be used during the present time scenes to create a sense of danger and props like hammers and other tools would be used as the interrogator’s equipment and it would be shot in a small dark room to create a sense of isolation. Close-ups of the boy will be used quite often in the opening sequence so that he can be easily established as the main characters, also POV shots from his perspective will be used for the same effect.


The film Stormbreaker influenced our plot so we researched it and took many ideas from it. We liked the fast paced editing and action of the film which is what made us look into it.

In this video you can see some examples of the fast paced editing and action themes of Stormbreaker that we hope to implement in our own short film, Backlash.