Friday 3 April 2009

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

As our film is a thriller/horror we decided that to entice the audience to watch our film we had to make our title sequence follow the codes and conventions of this sub-genre. The risks with this however are that the audience could turn round and say “this looks like just another thriller/horror; we already know what’s going to happen.” So we also had to add our own set of values to make the film look different and entice even the most sceptical of viewers.

One of the main things apart from suspense which we wanted to create in our opening sequence was questions. This would not only cause the audience to go “oh, what’s going to happen next?” but also wonder why people had done certain things or “why was a spider shown there?” This theory should cause the audience to watch the film as they would then want to find out the answer to their question, which could be in the final scene of the film.

One f the best question’s that we could want the audience to ask is, why is the killer deciding to kill people. This is a good question as it could be answered many times in the film; it could be changed and reopened by another character in the movie every time the audience think they have guessed the conclusion so that they end up watching the whole film all the way through.

Another reason for people to want to watch our film is down to the fact they deal with two of the biggest fears, death and spiders. People may wish to se how either the two are combined so that they can learn to either escape from them or also how to deal with them.

One thing that was important in attracting the audience to the film was the setting. Almost everybody has been to the woods or forest at some point in there life and know that if left alone there how spooky and alone you can feel. This is the main reason we chose this spot over a town as it is likely that after a while in a town you could easily escape to freedom or get somebody to hear and help you. Something I feel is much less likely to happen in a secluded part of the forest or woods.

In conclusion I think that the title sequence was successful in attracting and persuading people to watch the rest of the film and that we addressed them appropriately.

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