1. What can my target audience take away from watching my
opening sequence?
- create an empathetic attachment to the xter and want to find out if she gets out or not.
- They will relate to her due to her age and gender.
- But they will feel the tension because they will be so close in proximity to her they will feel the atmosphere that she is in.
2. Genre
- In the title sequence-the genre would just be thriller,
- Plot line goes on it becomes more of a psychopathic and crime thriller.
- Some films which are similar and would attract a similar target audience;
- ‘The Call’ this has a young female character and it is a crime thriller. I think that the target audience would be the same as you create the same empathy for the main female character as we have tried to achieve in our thriller.
- ‘127 hours’, that film all the way through is very tense and it has the same feeling of claustrophobia as our opening sequence does, however the rest of the plot to our film doesn’t continue with the same level of a tense atmosphere but more of a crime and psychological tension.
- ‘The Lovely Bones’ because there is a psychopathic male murderer who is a threat to young female characters.
3. Setting
- The setting is an enclosed space just for the opening sequence, this could relate to a wider target audience, as it is a claustrophobic space, which is fear to a lot of people.
- Isolates her completely so an audience would strongly feel fear for her.
- As it is such a restricted space, the audience feel physically and emotionally close to her due to the small proximity of her surroundings, and it feels like you’re in there with her.
4. Narrative- In the opening sequence, it think that it could attract a female target audience as I think stereotypically females would be interested at what she's wearing and will spot the fact that she is too young to be wearing a wedding dress and see that it should be out of place, this will intrigue the female target audience to continue watching to find out more about what has happened to this girl.
- During the opening sequence and the rest of the plot, until the end of the film, you never see the male killers face, this adheres to the conventions of thrillers, that crucial aspects of the film aren’t revealed until the end to build tension and engage the audience to reveal his motive.
- My target audience member who I made a social network profile for was interested in crime thriller, this film has an aspect of crime throughout as they want to spot patterns and figure it out or themselves before the characters do.
- I feel that a female audience will feel more empathy for the female victims in the film as they will relate themselves to them and put themselves in her situation. They will feel implied to stay with the character and hope that she escapes the killers.
- We never reveal the male killers face. We chose to do this so he can represent and male character in anyones life, suggesting this could happen to anyone, and anyone could be a psychopathic killer and no one would know. This would make a female audience scared therefore adding tension due to the empathy with the female characters.
5. Social appealing
- The moral of the plot could act as a warning of personal safety and show how in social groups females are considered to be subservient to males but when watching a film you expect the stereotypes but hope for them to subvert.
- In our plot we would continuously see the females adhering to the stereotype but the audience would hang on until the end as they would hope for every next person who is captured by him to escape.
6. Sound
- Sound effects of the dirt hitting the top of the coffin at the opening of the sequence when the screen is black with titles appearing, to set the scene and establish where she is.
- Soundtrack at the beginning of eerie music, that fades out when the picture comes onto screen and there is no sound during the sequence. We did this so we can isolate her and exaggerate the fact that she is all alone and only has the company and comfort of her own voice.
- We put the same sound in at the end when the final camera angle is zooming out.
- The ambient sound of the dirt being piled on top of the coffin, we recorded from actually inside so it was more realistic and to make an audience feel like they are hearing what she hears.
7. Titles
- We used the name of an unknown director- Hugo Claude. We did this as we have a low budget for our film and it may make an audience want to watch the film as they have no preconceptions or opinions about the director.
8. Actors
- The male I think should be an unknown actor so it feels more relatable to a real life situation for the audience and enhance the feeling that he could be anyone.
- If we had a large budget, I think we should cast a well known strong female actress as one of the kidnapped girls, who survives at the end. An actress like Angelina Jolie would be a suitable actress as she is commonly a heroin in films she has been in, especially when she subverts to her stereotype in the film the bone collector.
9. Editing
- The pace is slow at the beginning and increases due to her state of mind and levels of stress. This increases the feeling of being in there with her because you feel her emotions through the pace of the editing.
10. Conventions
- The conventions of a thriller that we used in our opening thriller sequence and have planned to use in the rest of the plot was there was mystery, tension, suspense, sticking with a character throughout, want a specific character to come out successful.
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