Evaluation

How did you attract/address your audience?

The techniques I have used to define our genre of our media project and grab the attention of our audience was that we used fast cross rates. We have also used fade in’s and fade out’s for every scene which creates an atmosphere, of something that you’re unsure about fits the sequence well. There is no dialect in our movie clip, this can make the clip more interesting because the audience has to rely more on the facial expressions of the characters, this requires more concentration and for the audience to be more involved in the clip. This is a good way of getting the attention of the audience. People may see this as unusual however it is a good way for the audience to get to know a character through their facial expressions and other gestures. A scene with minimal or no dialect can build tension and as this is the beginning of a thriller this can set the tone for the rest of the film.

When we filmed KB’s eyes we had everything completely black and only his eyes and face in focus. But we had just a lamp at one side behind the camera to create an early effect and make it look more menacing. Simon is the “victim”, he is coming across to the audience as a simple teenager going for a walk, maybe heading somewhere. There isn’t much depth to this character so he is a simple character but he is the main one. The second character is KB who is the “Stalker”, he is the sinister being who we don’t see much of apart from his eyes. He is the evil person in this opening and the bits people see of him we want to make him come across as the person who is out to do bad.

In the third shot along The Stalker is introduced, it is an extreme close up of his eyes and everywhere is dark except for a shine of light on the side of his face. The music we have used is a track that plays through to the end of our scene. In the shot further into the sequence The Victim is walking up some steps and puts his hand on a rail, at that moment it fades to The Stalkers eyes once again and it looks as if they are looking at the previous scene and it creates a sense of unpredictability of what The Stalker is thinking or what he is going to do.