Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
For this question I created a Soundcloud to explain the attraction of the film for our target audience
TRANSCRIPT
what pleasures
can your target audience gain from the opening?
The reveal of
the keys as the character sees them is exciting which wants the audience to
continue watching the rest of the sequence.
Language and
dialogue used is very colloquial, and has a sense of personal connection with
the target audience, as the swear words used are commonly said in real life,
but not very much heard in film or tv. It might come to as quite a shock to
hear them so frequently in our thriller at first, but a lot of the audience can
relate to what he’s feeling.
The actor we
used fits within the target audience, he also appeals as he’s attractive and
young. This means the audience can relate to the character, as he is similar of
age and personality.
the concept
itself is very updated and modern. By using keys as a mind game instead of just
a general prison cell scenario.
The fact that
the villain is coming closer and shooting people held in their prison cells,
whilst playing mind games is very twisted and something that we would not
traditionally see. The plot twist challenges normal conventions of a prison
setting and gives an exciting plot device for the audience to want to learn
more about.
what type of
film is this?
The sub-genre of
our thriller is an espionage thriller, meaning spy thrillers. This generally
includes action and psychology so the thriller is a combination of the three.
Other thrillers
similar to this is the bourne legacy, the bond franchise, storm breaker, body
of lies, salt,
Bond in
particular deals with a lot of close shaves, like the concept of our opening
sequence
why does setting
appeal to the audience?
The setting
appeals to the audience as it's very ascetically pleasing, with all the keys
nicely placed out despite it being a stressful situation. I think the setting
is really cool as it’s really unique and artistic
It’s set in a
prison, which is becoming an increasingly popular setting for tv and
film.
Some popular
film and tv that are set in prisons include orange is the new black, prison break,
escape from Alcatraz, and dead boss.
story:
the story is
basically a spy who’s got himself locked up with some villains in a prison
cell. BUT the villains are playing mind games with him. They install hundreds
of keys on the ceiling with only one key that fits into the padlock on the
door. the villains are coming to each cell and shooting down every prisoner,
with every shot they are coming closer to our protagonist’s cell. this makes
him panic and thus tries to find the right key
We end the scene
with the spy placing of what he thinks is the right key and hear a gunshot in
the title card.
In our sequence
we only see the male protagonist spy, but we hear talking in the background and
footsteps getting louder and louder. The footsteps are the villain which is
obviously a threat to the protagonist, as he’s associated with panicking the
character and the sound of a gunshot. therefore, even though we don’t see the
villain, he still creates tension offscreen and builds a more dynamic
narrative.
The narrative
appeals to the audience as tension is created through the many holes in the
narrative, which puts the audience on edge. The thriller ends on a cliffhanger,
leaving the audience asking who is the protagonist, why is he stuck in the
prison cell, who has placed him in the prison cell, was that the right key, and
did he escape in time?
The opening
sequence is not the very start of the film’s storyline. which means the
narrative is not a linear order and the plot is shown in fragments, instead of
chronologically.
The rest of the
film would be watching the previous scenes of the storyline right up to that
key scene.
This means that
the audience will not find out any of the previous questions they may have been
asking themselves until much later on the film, so hopefully they would want to
continue watching to find out.
the social
groups that we are appealing to are women through the male protagonist, we used a
young, professional, emotional, attractive, man and in the end - he is
dominant too. but also we are appealing to men through the action
and panic of the scenario. The sounds of gunshots in particular are appealing
to men, as it displays that there will be weapons and violence present in our
thriller.
We are appealing
to a younger audience as it includes a lot of action and a non-linear
narrative. The mystery and cliffhangers entice tension and makes the audience
think about what is happening.
How does music
appeal to the audience?
we were going to
use music but in the end we decided not to. The sequence is jam packed full of
action and the sound effects are added to make the thriller even more exciting
and tense. With music added, it would have broken the entire atmosphere of the
film as there would be too much happening.
how might titles
appeal?
if we had the
budget we would personally consider a masculine actor such as sam claflin or
douglas booth to play the protagonist.
The actor needs
to look in his early twenties, masculine but not too masculine as
stereotypically we wouldn’t see a really masculine figure break down during a
close shave.
Or we could
possibly have dylan o brien who was in the maze runner, which shares similar
conventions of character and plot of our thriller
I would
personally choose martin campbell to co-direct the film as he’s had experiences
with thrillers beforehand such as casino royale, the legend of zorro,
green lantern, edge of darkness and no escape
What editing
techniques you used that appeals to the audience?
we increased the
pace to match the increasing panic of the protagonist - by having shorter shot
durations, more cuts and faster shots like pans
the audience is
feeling the same amount of panic as the character all through out the
sequence
conventions we
used include:
tension,
violence, panic, weapons, action, cliffhangers, suspense, hero,
we used fast
paced editing to represent the panic and action
the sound
captured, such as the dialogue showed the violence and aggression the character
felt
we cut the
ending to black to use a cliffhanger, adding suspense to the thriller
we challenged
conventions of a strong male protagonist as we watch the character in distress
under this extreme circumstance.
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