Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Evaluation question 1 - Ellie
Our film straight away opens to be quite dark and dingy, a typical stereotype of thriller/horror films. It also sets up the film by letting the audience know what genre the film is going to be in the first 10-20 seconds. The mise on scene in this scene also add to this, with the main character having a bag over her head indicating she's been kidnapped, and various objects in the background such as a saw. If these conventions werent in the background, it would be harder to tell that is was more of a thriller film. The iconography is typical of this genre.
An example of inspiration we took this from would be the opening credits of Se7en:
As you can see they have similar, saturated colours to create the thriller type feel.
In our opening credits, for our title we used a straight white on black text which looked simple yet effective. This make the text stand out, without being too in your face. It also makes the titles have more of a sense of importance by being simplified and almost elegant. Again, we took inspiration from the film Se7en when choosing what to do with our titles, as they also did a simple white on black background.
In the beggining of our film we used non-diegetic sound that sets a mood for the film, making it more like a thriller. We then lowered the music so that you could only hear the diegetic music that made the film more like a thriller, so that you could hear exactly whats going off. Part of this is the main character talking to the other character, revelaing part of the plot so its important that the audience hears what is being said. Later on in the film we bring back the non-diegetic sound which increases the tension. It builds up the chase scene and makes it seem more intense.
In our film we use quite fast paced editing which made the film flow better and seem more like a thriller by jumping between scenes. A films I took inspiration from for this would be Inception in the kick scene:
As for camera angles, the main use of higher and lower angles created a sense of authority and power over Daisy. Because the kidnapper is looking down at her and she is lower, it makes it seem as though she's less in control.
Evaluation 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?
Our target audience was 15 - 40's as we couldn't attract to a younger age as our film certificate would be a 15. When we sent out the first questionnaires a lot of 15 - 20 year olds said they liked the sound of our film and would watch it.
Once we had finished our film we sent out an audience feedback questionnaire to see if our particular audience enjoyed it and majority of them said 'yes'.
When deciding on what to include in our film we wanted to keep the Yorkshire accent but at a minimal so the audience could range from different areas instead of just the Yorkshire area.
We used a 17 year old female actor to attract both the opposite sexes as the males may find her attractive and the females will feel sorry for her when she is kidnapped and will for her too escape. It also appeals to the older generation as they may feel protective of her as most of them will have daughters or sons of a similar age.
The use of a female as a hopeless victim creates a sense of reality as the most realistic of a victim in real life would be a female as they 'normally' have less power and strength. Incorporating reality in our film is noticed by our audience feedback as one says that 'enjoyed the use of the younger girl as I felt this added to the reality of the plot.'
We also had some comments commenting on the kidnapper being female instead of a male which they said things like 'interrogater wasn't evil enough' and 'have a man interrogating the girl' which shows our audience want more of a realistic storyline especially with characters but I feel the use of a female could show the audience that the 'bad guy' in real life or film isn't always a big strong male as in real life a female could kidnap just as well as a male. This is agreed as one the feedbacks say 'I like that the women stalker was a women as it isn't expected and it shows not all women are the sweet innocent victim'.
Alot of the feedback commented on our editing and our chase seen but many said 'the fall' could be an improvement so if we were to do it again we would try to use a different shot of the fall to make it more believable.
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