Panic Attack Short Film - Two Step Flow Theory

Panic Attack is a short science fiction film which is directed by independent filmmaker, Fede Alvarez, in 2009. In this film, giant robots appear and try to destroy a large city called Montevideo. This film contains a lot of weapons and shooting at the buildings. It soon becomes a huge war between the robots and military. The ending of this film is the robots coming together, forming a sphere and engulfing the city in a fireball. This is the cliffhanger the audience is left with.

This short film applies to the two-step flow theory. The two step flow theory is the communication of ideas that flow from the media to opinion leaders, and then to a large part of the population.
In this case, the opinion leader for this short film was a famous music artist, Kanye West. This brought larger exposure and attention towards this short film.


From looking at this example, it shows explanation as to why independent filmmakers choose to distribute their film online. Therefore, I have chosen to distribute my film online to introduce a slight possibility of being apart of the two-step flow theory.