Analysis of Short Film - Future Hero (2014)

1. FUTURE HERO
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2. DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
• The Iranian director Ramin Serry was born and raised in
Chicago. His parents were both physicians, Dr. Cyrus
Serry and Dr. Mahin Hamidi. Ramin was highly educated
as he received his BA in English and American literature
from the university of Illinois and his MFA in film from
Columbia university of school of the arts.
• He is a talented writer and director whose films have
many awards and whose work consistently amazes the
critics. He is an award winning director whose known for
his movies “Maryam”, “Loveless” and my personal
favourite “Future Hero”.
• Serry currently teaches screenwriting in the MFA film
program at Columbia universitys school of arts.

3. FILM BIOGRAPHY
Future hero (2014) was the first independent short film
to be featured on Stan Lee’s world of heroes.
It won 1st place – best comedy at the Rhode island
international film festival, was nominated best short film
at the 2014 Geekie awards, and was featured in the 2015
season of the PBS television show, “on story”.

4. FILM SYNOPSIS
“Future” Hero is a science fiction comedy and light hearted short film
about a father and son who work out their issues while battling a time
traveling killer android. The slightly irresponsible father takes a nap
while the wife takes their baby to the park, until the father is woken
up by an android who has come from the future to kill his baby.
A father teams up with his time traveling resentful adult version son to
defeat a murderous android, whilst also saving their relationship and
destiny.

5. LEADING CHARACTERS
 Mid 30’s
 Immature computer
geek
 Slaker, irresponsible
 Witty
 Crafty
 Cocky
 A typical hero
 Well built
 Low budget costume
 Typical cyborg
 Insensitive
 Ruthless
 Expresionless
 Mid 20’s
 Wise
 Responsible
 Mature
 Handy and cocky
 Brave
 Arm bracelet and futuristic weapon
define him as a character from the
future

6. LOCATIONS
• Typical suburban design
• Comfortable and relaxing
environment
• A mix of traditional and modern
design furniture
• Ornaments and paintings reveal
artistic inclination
• Suburban and traditional
• A lot of greenery
• Natural and not artificial design

7. SHOTS AND CAMERA MOVEMENT
• Steady still camera
• Over the shoulder shot
• Medium and long shots
• MCU shots used to show facial expressions
• Hand held camera used to follow the character in motion
from one location to the other
• Tracking shot used to follow son’s disappearance
• Zoom in and out used to show mother’s confusion and
hesitancy

8. EDITING AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
• Quick straightforward simple cuts
• No editing traditions
• Chronological order of shots following narrative
• Android voice low pitch enhanced
• Smoke vanishing effect used for the disappearance
of the android
• Very simple and cheap CGI used
• Laser shooting and light effect

9. MUSIC
• Classic orchestra music
• Music inspired by star wars and star trek
• Opening and closing credits combined with epic, up tempo and
dramatic composition
• Airy, mysterious and quick music segment used to exaggerate
characters confusion

10. THE END
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