2. Through our film I feel that we attracted the audience in many ways.
Some ways using mise en scene for example when we have the overall
location. The film is set in a school after hours when it is quite dark eerie.
The attracts the audience because our audience was from 16-24year olds
and most of the audience will be in school still so they can put themselves
in the film as the main character. The other thing that addresses the
audience through mise en scene is who the character is. The main
character for our film a teen called Bruce who is a high school student.
The reason we chose to have this character this age was so that it felt
more realistic to the film that a student was investigating it rather than a
man. The other reason was to help the audience relate to the film as if
they can place themselves in the film it make the whole film more scary
for the audience. The last part for the character that we needed to think
about was the costume of Bruce. We did try a few shots with just some
casual cloths such as jeans and a shirt but then we didn’t feel like it set the
scene and that in all other horror films based in school the students wore
their school uniform and therefore set the scene better so we thought we
would take this idea and use it to help create a good mise en scene.
3. Another thing that we added to our film that I
thought would set the scene and attract the
audience and keep the glued were diegetic and
non-diegetic sounds. Such as we had little
sounds which were diegetic which Danny and
the audience could hear so that Danny could
say “did you hear that” and address the
audience but also the non-diegetic sound such
as thuds, screeches and dramatic build ups
were used to build the tension and keep
everyone scared and edgy.
4. Or film references horrors because it is
basically a good old slashed horror where
there is a killer killing people and someone
investigates. You can see that we have
referenced other horrors by just the whole
product. For instance one of Danny’s lines
are “there has been reports of
disappearances, murders, slaughtering’s”.
This is the common sort of line which you
would hear in the film The Blair witch
project where they investigate a witch
myth. There are other line and ways in
which our film references other horrors
such as the entity standing just leaning out
of the corridor and then moving out, lots of
films do this to build suspense and tension.
5. I don’t think our film had any contemporary issues because
our film is just a slasher/thriller film. It doesn’t show any
knife crime or revenge etc. it’s just a teen investigating some
murders and disappearances by a ghost type figure. But I
think that at the same time this film could only be a starter
point for the entity films. What I mean by this is that we
have taken ideas from other films that the first film does the
killing etc. then in the sequel you find out the back story of
this and why the killings go on. So I thought that if we were
to make another film then it could have been the sequel to
entity and you could see why the killings happened and
look more into the entity’s story and what made him kill.
This way I could portray different issues such as the entity
might have got bullied or killed at school this is why he
seeks revenge on students etc.
6. We decided to show our film to our class but it wasn’t the
finished product, we were just looking for some pointers of
what to add and what to discard. The feedback we got is
that we needed to add more sounds to our film to build
more tension to for the audience to keep them on the edge of
their seats. So we took this into consideration and decided to
add sounds where we thought we needed it. Also we got
told that we should take out some little parts that didn’t
work that well and I agreed so I cut some clips and deleted
some to make sure the film still ran smoothly and worked
well still. The last problem that I had was the running
time, we are only allowed to have a film that lasts 2 minutes
and ours ran on for a few more seconds, this doesn’t seem
long but it was a real struggle to cut some clips because it all
worked well but soon we all decided to cut some clips and
shorten them. Such as zooming in on the entity and camera
angles.
7. It is very important to us that we got are audience’s
attention through the opening sequence because then
the viewer will be glued to their seats and want to
know what happens next, if the audience didn’t like
the start then there not going to pay attention and
continue watching so we made sure that are film
caught people’s attention by having Danny talk to the
audience through the camera and explaining what he is
doing which suspense on
“dissaperances,murders,slaughteings” so that the
audience want to know what happens next. Also
through the use of talking to the audience it addresses
them and they feel more involved.
