Smoke and Mirrors

Smoke and Mirrors | Film

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Overview

Smoke and Mirrors is a 15-minute-long contemporary mystery pilot episode about four college students, who are brought together through the disappearance of their popular peer, Mia. A brother, a secret love affair, a class acquaintance and a friend must uncover the secrets of their relationships to Mia in order to find her.

WHY THIS FILM MATTERS

This project is important to us, as each of the characters we've created are based on personal experiences within our own team. For our narrative, we’ve taken into consideration themes of mental health such as addiction, anxiety, sexual orientation/identity struggles, racism and cyber-bullying. This is a major factor within our narrative, as we want to create a project that will stand out to a similar age range and demographic to our own. Through hard work and dedication, we hope to develop Smoke and Mirrors into a full series, beyond our time at university.

OUR TARGET AUDIENCE

Our target audience is our age, an age range of 18 to 30, similar to our demographic as students. We also chose this due to research regarding mental health and addiction rates within Aotearoa New Zealand. By targeting this audience and allowing them to connect with our characters, we are able to show them and their loved ones a realistic character portrayal, which is not romanticised or idealised in any way.

WHY YOU'RE NEEDED

We need your support to raise money for our project. Your generous contribution will go towards paying our cast, securing locations for filming, transporting our team to and from set and lastly, catering for our cast and crew. Your support will help give us the ability to create a high-quality, industry standard project, which we hope to share with you and the New Zealand film industry.

THE TEAM

The Smoke and Mirrors team is composed of ten Massey University students, working towards their final graduate project.

Fiona Ellett - Producer

Bailey Harding - Director/Writer

Vanessa Howe - 1st Assistant Director

Antonio Lim - Director of Photography

Natalie Chan - 1st Camera Assistant/Producers’ Assistant

Cherrie Bartolome - Production Designer

Cormac Griffin - Sound Designer

Joshi Cho - Gaffer

Ben Coyle - Editor/Score Composer

Liam Manson - VFX Artist

 

THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE.

All donations are hugely appreciated,

THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS TEAM.

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