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The Butterfly Effect

Storyline

Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!

This is another psychological thriller film with a similar age rating to ours which is 15. This films follows a man who experiences flash backs that constantly effect him. This was a good film to research as our film is along similar line where the main character suffers hallucinations and flash backs.

This film uses many of the features we are going to try and use in our film for example the close up to show the protagonists emotions and physical state so we can give the audience a connection with the character and so they can get to know him and the use of flashbacks so they can have an insight to the characters life and how he has come to what he is now.
As well as this, this film uses location very well to help portray a character for example in one of the images to the right you can see the main character with a worried face and sat alone showing his isolation from the world. This is something we would need to think about in our film as this would enable us to produce some really nice close up angles of a character and blur the back ground to use this technique to isolate our main character to make the audience sympathize with him.