Evaluation Question 5

I believe our thriller opening appealed to our target audience because it is a storyline that is not commonly used, we have included the binary oppositions of good vs evil but with a twist. Usually it is a male character that is mischievous and cunning, but we decided to have a plot twist as it would make the audience more excited to know what would happen next.

Our mise-en-scene was effective in the way that we used props and costumes that would give a suspensful atmosphere.
Props like toys around the house allowed the audience to start thinking about what may happen next without revealing to much.
The costumes were effective because it showed binary oppositions between bright and dark, which could allow the audience to see the opposition between a childs innocence and a grown womans mind frame.
The character had to be able to show little emotion in the performance, so to make it seem quite difficult to read her. We also tried to make her look quite mysterious through camera shots, as you only see her face from a low angle a minute into the opening.

The rough cut helped us a lot with feedback, we struggled because our software crashed twice and didn't allow us to save our work in time, so we started from scratch twice. But the feedback we got was very helpful, most of it was good feedback but we were told that some of the shots we did with the character walking along the river were too long and could bore the audience. We know that thrillers usually use short cuts in between scenes to add suspense so this is what we worked on.


We have reached our audience so far by cinema screening it in 'On The Green'.