How did you attract / address your audience?

1. The mise en scene, for the first scene
was very unique, all we needed was
party equipment to make it seem like
the little girls birthday. We made the
lighting low-key in final-cut pro,
however we used a grainy and dated
affect to make it look like it was an old
recording from the past; this is also
why the camera was not filmed on a
tripod as we wanted to show the
audience that it looked like it was
filmed by one of the other family
members.

2. For the first scene we wanted the non –
diegetic sound to be a slow piano
piece, and have a soft feel. We also
hear “the family” sing happy birthday
(very faintly). The location of this scene
was a simple living room, with party
equipment all over the place.

3. As we transition from the first scene
to the second, we had to illustrate
that years had past. Therefore we
added 11 years later, in the middle
to make it clear. We also changed
the music to more of a

4. The next scene we made the
lighting much darker, to show
present day being depressing
looking as reality shows the girl is
still missing. The older brother
Nathan whose trying to find his
younger sister wakes up to find it
was all a flashback and not real. The
props in this scene are the missing
posters from years ago, which he
wakes up covered in.

5. The non-diegetic sound (second track)
we use in this scene, has a fast tempo.
We wanted a faster tempo as he as just
looked back at flashbacks thinking
there real, and rushes to see if it was
true.

6. We used cross
cutting editing
throughout the
second and third
scene to build up,
the showing of the
kidnapped girl. Here
is a simple long-shot
to show where the
setting of the
kidnapped girl, is
being held. We
added diegetic
sounds like water
flowing and forest
features like trees
moving and birds
singing on top.

7. This is an important
shot, as it shows the
audience the medical
timetable of the
Alexandra, who has
been kidnapped. This
shows she needs
medical attention at
regular times. This is
why Nathan is leaving
bread crumbs for
Alexandra, but his
parents thinks he’s
going crazy because
she’s been gone for
too long and hasn’t
had the chance to
take the medicine.

8. We thought looking back
we could make it clear
that the young girl we see
at the beginning has
reached an older aged
and has been taken.
When we were editing
we came up with an idea
on how we could
incorporate both the pass
and present together, so
we thought we’d take
both shots of a close up
of their eye, and layer
both shots on top. Then
we faded them to fit each
other and look like the
same eye.

9. When Nathan the older
brother, comes back to
reality after thinking the
flashbacks were real, he
storms back into her
room, which hasn’t been
touched ever since she
went missing, and finds
out that she’s still not
back. Everyone else has
given up finding her, but
older brother Nathan is
still searching.

10. Here we see a 1 second shot of the perpetrator,
heading towards our victim, with his Our USP (unique
selling point) is all the characters are around the same
age, therefore equality of age differences doesn’t come
into play and leaves doors open for all three characters
to defend themselves, for example the girl who has
been kidnapped is just as young as the perpetrator the
fact we don’t see her get abused or hurt much later on
builds up a lot more tension, which not a lot of other
thrillers do.

11. Here we see more picture of the
kidnapped girl as a baby. We
wanted to do a close up to show
how important it means to older
brother Nathan, to find his sister
and not give up.

12. A classic thriller convention is not
showing what the perpetrator
looks like, and this is what we’ve
done here. We only see this shot
for 2 seconds, which then make
the audience aware but still
questioning who it is?, why ? And
what? Another thriller
convention is making the
perpetrator wear all black. We’ve
used this to show the dark side of
the human.

13. Here we had fast moving shots to
show the intense scene, where for the
first time the audience see that the girl
is still alive, but in danger. For the mise
en scene we used make- up to make it
look like she has bruises, fake blood
dripping down her face, rope to tie her
up. We also used what was around us
like leaves and dirt to make it look like
she’s been there for sometime.

14. Here we see the last shot.
We wanted to show it
from this position as some
may see hope and a
chance to brake free
through the trees. Other
will say we no, she looks
trapped, and the trees are
closing in on her
We made the lighting
darker around the
trees, but used a mask
around her to lighten
her surroundings and
herself. We did this to
make her stand out
more. We increase the
sound of the intense
music before cutting
out and just hearing a
heartbeat in the
background, with a
back screen shown.