Evaluation Question 5

When we first thought about the people who are going to watch it we mainly focused on the age of our characters because the audience will be able to relate to them and have some sort of connection with them even before they have found out more about them by watching the film. Our age group target was 15 to 30 we have done this because our 2 main characters the detective and the female protagonist were young characters. the type of audience we were looking for is someone who is young between the ages of 15-20 so they are sensitive and they will be emotionally connected to the movie and would react to some of the scenes in our movie because they will have sympathy for our characters this type of audience member would connect with the scene where our female protagonist is crying could be very emotional depending on the member of the audience. We are also looking for an audience member who is slightly older and more intellectual from the ages of 25-35 that will try to analyse the movie and guess what will come next because we open with a cliff hanger and no information is given, this is effective because it entices the audience member to watch the whole movie so they understand the whole story and see if their theories are correct.

               

The use of camera work is the most important way to connect to your audience because it allows them to put themselves into the character’s shoes this can help making the audience feel the emotion in the scene. We used this in the starting scene of the movie with the close up of the young female protagonist with one tear on her face this instantly makes a connection with the audience and this character.  This enigma works well with the detective because the audience puts themselves into the detective shoes and tries to come up with a solution before the detective does himself.  It is stereotypical to have these realistic characters and events in crime dramas like this. For example, in a crime drama there is stereotypically a male character playing a detective and a young female character who is in danger so the detective has to save her.

When conducting a survey to see how people will react to the clip we got these results.

What impact did some of the shots have on you?

“I really felt sorry for the young female, even though I didn’t know what was wrong with her”

“I wanted to be the detective myself”

“I wanted to watch the rest of the film”

What was your opinion upon where the opening took place?

“I thought the forest was a unique idea because it seems as if the detective cannot find her due to how vast it is”

“the river was very impactful as it gave the opening a sense of eeriness”

These questions shows that the audience of our product generally felt impacted after watching the film and shows that the cinematography in the opening was very effective to making the piece emotionally powerful. This is what we aimed for because of us targeting the drama genre and shows that our film definitely suits this genre.

Harvey Andrew