Short Film Research: Double Happy


DOUBLE HAPPY
This short film is about a group of teenage friends and with hidden love interests. Rory likes Rebecca but another friend in the group continues to antagonize him. Rory snaps and turns to violence by blowing up a shop

camera angle/shots-

* close-up

*mid shot

*pov shot

*shot reverse shot

sounds and lighting

* Ambient sound

*incidental music

* low lighting

Mis-en-scene-

*causal clothes

*park setting

props

* fake blood

*fireworks

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