How did you attract/address your audience?

The genre of our filming opening is a thriller. These types of films have different similarities in the narrative elements including action, violence and suspense. In our opening, we used a variety of ways to grab the viewer’s attention, these include different types of shots and scenery to prevent the audience from becoming a passive viewer.

Firstly, our film opening would typically attract both male and females aged 15-24. In order to keep the viewers attention, we introduced the characters slowly, and when the action started, we added a sound track put together by ourselves, to build up suspense. This helps to keep the attention of the audience as it changes from a slow introduction and gradually speeds up. Also, we used lots of short clips of our filming in order to create a sense of urge when Dwayne realizes his girlfriend has been kidnapped.Secondly, we include many flashbacks to subtly inform the viewer what has happened, and why Dwayne is in a rush. The different types of shots, such as long shots and extreme close ups makes the viewer focus on those objects which may be vital later in the film. Also, the extreme close ups allow the viewer to imagine they are the actor, and see it from their point of view. We added a saturated effect to the flashbacks to show the viewers that this has already happened and it is in the past, which also helps to keep the audience interested.

We have a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic sound in our opening but to build up the suspense, it was important to add a sound track to our film opening, rather than to leave diegetic sound because our sound track we added plays a major part to building up the suspense. Our diegetic sound includes the start of the ignition, and revving of the engine. This breaks up the non-diegetic sound and these particular sounds emphasise the importance of Dwayne reaching his girlfriend.

This sound in our opening film is diegetic. It was natural sounds within our filming.

This sound in our opening film is non-diegetic. We aded the sound during editing to add the impression it is Emma's heart beating.

Finally, we specifically chose to have very little lighting in order to disguise the kidnapper and by doing this it means the user has to focus closely in order to realize who he is. It means the audience are intrigued and don't want to look away incase they miss something.