Friday 5 April 2013

5.) How did you attract/ address your audience? [Scott]

Why the Audience would enjoy our film.
-The Audience would enjoy our film from the enigma we created at the start and how that is withheld throughout the product, with the twist at the end. 

-Our older audience would enjoy the father and daughter mini-narrative in the film, we hoped that adding this would create a story that people could relate too, because not everyone is a former government agent. 

-I think the development of our main protagonist from retired to 'back-in-action' will be interesting for the audience.

-The characterisation of someone who wants to leave everything behind him to a human being that is taking it by the 'scruff-of-the-neck' will be hopefully enlightening and encouraging for the audience to really get behind and support our character.

-We created an innocent and 'good citizen' character through the use of our tidy home and simple costume that suggest to the audience that he is a quite and perhaps introverted man who lives a relaxed and settled life.

-However, we also wanted to give him a troubled side because being a former agent he would have been through a lot- we did this through the narrative device of a phone; as it rings it can be heard slightly from the room that the character is in, instead of running to answer it he continues to do what he is doing. This not only gives the impression of a troubled man, but adds to the reclusive side of him and wanting to shut out the outside world.

-Not so much in our opening, but with the development of the narrative and plot, we raise issues such as government conspiracies and loss of family and friends. With raising the issues of family and friends we evoke certain emotions in the spectator and perhaps lead them to connecting and empathising with our characters. This is done, as mentioned earlier, by creating a character that the audience in the end will hopefully 'feel for' in our opening.

-We tried to use the most interesting shots that we could when creating our opening, this not only made it interesting for us when trying to get these shots but also for the viewing spectator.

-We would continue this filming method throughout the rest of our product.

-Although the sound for our opening was mainly atmospheric and foleys for effect, for the rest of our feature we would have introduced an interesting soundtrack for moments at which we wanted the audience at the peak of interest, perhaps including a montage or during an action sequence.

-To a spectator, our film would have looked like Taken. Through our use of eery music in our setting one and titles we created the suspenseful beginning you get with Taken and the unnerving feeling that something bad or climatic is going to happen.


This is what we hope our twist at the end of our narrative will be like for our audience, creating the same shock factor as the surprise at Shutter Island's ending. Shutter island is one example of type of film that our target audience is likely to have enjoyed beforehand because it holds suspense and enigma through the majority of the film until the major plot twist at the end.

1 comment:

  1. This is really too short for a higher level answer. As this stands, it's around a level 2 here, whereas some of your other evaluation material could reach level 4. You need to work harder on this, to analyse your opening in much more detail for this question, unpacking aspects such as characterisation, style, music/sound, themes, issues etc. Use your research into real thrillers to justify your comments. What other films would your audience enjoy?

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