How did you attract/address your audience?
The fiction film was designed to create a sense of disorientation with what was happening within the storyline. When the character is walking towards his destination to make the deal the music we chose proved to be very important in creating the correct mood and tone. The killing at the end of our extract was meant to provide a sense of shock and anxiety. It would prepare our audience for a violent and action-packed movie. At the end of our extract the audience wanted to know what was to happen next, the start of our film certainly proved sufficient enough to prepare our audience to carry on watching our fiction film.
Our first establishing shot was so that our audience could picture where the film was taking place. The zoom towards the window was so that it suggested to our audience that the next scene with our character within a room was taking place in that house. Within the next scene our character spoke on the phone to someone else, he mentioned, “Be at Bell View in ten minutes”. Therefore when we filmed him walking towards his destination we paused the camera on a sign which stated ‘Leading to Bell View’. This therefore reminded the audience of where his destination was and kept them guessing at the reasons why he may be going there. The meaning of this film is to create suspense and to show that things are not quite right in what is being shown. We therefore portrayed this in our filming by always getting our character to look around and to show nervous signs by checking who and what is around him. When rehearsing the different steps with the actors we wanted a lot of focus to be on the gun when it was in view of the camera. Therefore when the first character is sorting out the ‘evidence’ we make sure that he held it up as if he was looking at it, but also so the shape of the gun was in full view of the camera. At this point the gun is also sealed in a plastic bag, this is to interpret to the audience that it is evidence and therefore should be concealed. In the forest again when our second mobster shoots our other character we thought we would focus on the importance of the gun again and therefore took advantage of the lighting in this scene. When taking out the gun, the sun was shining on it, this formed a shadow which perfectly cast the guns outline and shape onto a tree in the scene and therefore emphasised the focus on the gun and enhanced its significance. We wanted to interpret to our audience that our Daniel Wolff mobster character was more superior and stronger than our Robert Kilburn mobster character. Therefore we used our camera angles to show this by including a lot of high angle shots on the superior mobster, also when having the over-the-shoulder shots we made it so the camera was slightly looking down on Robert Kilburn’s character and slightly looking up at Daniel Wolff’s character.
When trialling aspects of my film the audience were attracted to the effect the music had on the filming of our character walking towards his destination. They thought it set the mood of anxiety and suspense very well due to the music being jumpy and intense. The order in which we filmed and how we represented what was occurring in our opening sequence was thought to be very good according to our audience. The way we showed what was occurring in different steps, such as the preparation of the evidence and then the walking to the destination and finally the meeting between the two characters and how they react to each other.
I do believe that there may be different interpretations of our opening extract dependent on the culture of the viewer. In some cultures they may not be used to crime or gun violence and therefore may not understand the plot stirring in the opening few minutes. Some cultures may not understand or see the point of the interpretations and therefore not be interested in our film.