Evaluation activity 5

5) How did you attract/address your audience?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38k3rLufjRo
We put our film onto YouTube so that we could get feedback from our friends or family both from the school an outside school. We annotated the video so that the audience can see the ways in which our film differs from or is similar to other films in our genre or with the same target audience. We were then able to get constructive criticism to find out how to improve or what we could do next time we make a film. Several of our friends said that our film was really good and told us that they liked it.

The first shot in the opening is from a birds eye view and is of me laid still on the floor. The camera stays in a fixed position as Sian walks into the shot while holding a torch to light up my body and her feet as she stands over me. This creates drama, mystery and suspense, because the audience will be questioning what has happened and who is the person standing there. It will make the audience want to keep watching in order to get answers to their questions and to see how the narrative progresses. The shot is also mostly dark at first, which creates further drama.

An aspect of mise-en-scene was our clothing. Throughout the opening we wore our own clothes to show that we were teenagers and allow our target audience to relate to us. For most of our film I wore jeans and a big, zipped up jacket showing my vulnerability, compared to Sian who wore shorter outfits with tights and a coat when we were outside, showing that she is more open and outgoing.

One sound effect we used was the a diegetic splashing of a puddle as Sian walked through it. We got the sound effect from Youtube Audio Library and then Sian added it to the audio tracks of the film, timing it to match the shot. It adds more drama to the film, since only a couple of our sound effects are diegetic and it shows more ways in which Sian bullies me. It is also a sudden sound creating further drama.

At the end of the opening there is a jump cut from one shot of me under some stairs to a close up on my face, showing me unmoving and presumably dead. This shows our genre of drama because the audience still doesn't know how we got here or what has happened. It also seems as if someone is watching me which would build mystery and more drama.