The short film 2AM aims to represent the dangers of walking alone at night and how anyone can be a threat. It achieves this through showing the interaction between a smiling man and another man, representing the smiling character as creepy through his walking and demeanor, while the other man is portrayed as normal. The film uses horror genre techniques like setting, storyline, characters, and creepy music to introduce the smiling man to draw in the audience and represent the threat he poses.

1. Emily Kelly
Media
Learning AimA
What are 2AM purposes and how does it achieve them?
The short film 2AM is to represent the dangers of walking alone at night. It
shows how anyone can be around. It achieves this by showing what happens
with the smiling man and the man. The film represents the smiling character as
creepy from the way he walks and the way he represented throughout.
Meanwhile, the man is represented as normal.
The short film has used the horror genre with the setting, story line and
character. It also grabs the audience attention with the smiling man. They do
this when the smiling man is first introduced, there is creepy music.