Evaluation Part Five - Ali Mbow

How did you attract/address your audience?

After looking over the results from the questionnaire that we had created for our audience members we discovered ways that we could entice and engage our audience more by using their ideas and thoughts on the original plan for our opening sequence which they wrote down and explained to us in the questionnaires that we gave them. Lots of the comments made about the plot for the opening sequence was to add more violence action. We tried to do as much as we could to tailor our film to the majority of the target audience however in some instances in the process of creating our opening sequence it was not possible as the addition of violence and/or more action would have led to the narrative enigma in some scenes to be ruined and would cut the building of tension and suspense that had been built from the beginning of the clip.

With the use of different camera angles/shots and tense music playing in the background we have developed our opening sequence so it resembles a stereotypical action/thriller film, and hopefully at points the content of our media product made the audience feel uncomfortable not knowing what will happen next and why the events that are occurring are significant etc. We used genre signifiers throughout the sequence to depict a believable and accurate representation of a action/thriller genre. 

We frequently involved different camera shots which showed the unsuspecting, innocent, lifeless character of the protagonist this i because in every different angle and position the camera captured these same robotic and repetitive shots of the protagonist going about his daily routine, however the audience are aware from the use of these shots and the tense music that there must be something wrong and that there will be a climax that will reveal as to why all of the opening sequence so far has contained the footage that it has. The amount of effort put into creating the apprehension and uncertainty in a scene is common among other films within this genre.

From information we gathered from our class members who watched our opening sequence we found out that they thought it was quite a successful piece and that it was quite tense at points due to the extensive use of narrative enigma as many of them were enticed from the first few scenes because they wanted to find out what happened to the protagonist and how the quite simple and ordinary scenes at the start had any relevance. They also said that because they were of the same age as the protagonist in the opening sequence and because he was performing activities that they would in their daily lives as well and in the same manor that they could relate to him. Therefore making the scenes fell more realistic and increasing intensity as the music and footage forebode something to happen to the protagonist.