The document provides the results of a questionnaire given to an audience after viewing the opening sequence for a thriller film called "Blind Corner". The results showed that the audience found the opening creepy and thrilling, felt tension was built up well, and wanted to know what happened next. They responded positively to the actors, setting, and soundtrack. Most said they would want to watch the full film. The document discusses what was learned from constructing the opening sequence, including skills with camera equipment, editing software, sourcing music, and improving overall planning and confidence.

1. EVALUATION of ourThriller Opening SequenceBLIND CORNER

2. Audience Questionnaire for our Thriller Opening sequence of BLIND CORNERWhat was your reaction after watching our opening sequence?Do you feel that the actors we used were appropriate for our type of thriller? Was the setting that we used appropriate for a thriller? Give a reason why. What stereotypes do you feel that we portrayed in our opening sequence?Do you feel that this film is targeted at the correct target audience? (15+)What scenes in particular do you feel worked well?Do you feel that we built up tension and anticipation well during the opening sequence?Did you like the soundtrack and how do you think it contributed to our opening sequence? Did you like being left on a cliff-hanger, and did you feel that you needed to know what was going to happen next? Overall do think that opening sequence worked well, and would you want to watch the whole film after seeing the opening sequence? As you can see the questions that we asked are both open and closed .This was so that we could get a very clear understanding of what there thoughts were, and also it gave our audience a chance to write what they thought. We gave this out to our target audience and they filled it out for us whilst watching our opening sequence.

3. Audience Questionnaire ResultsWe asked many people to come to our showing of our opening sequence and we managed to get 15 people to fill out our questionnaire. Here are the results of what they said..Question 5:Question 1:‘Creeped’ out, would be a good film, wanted to know what happened, scared, they didn’t want to go to the woods again!, fitted well with the conventions of a thriller, and thrilling. These results showed us what worked well within our opening sequence and what didn't. We also got an overview of how well we may have of fulfilled the task. It also gave us an idea of what an audience thought of the opening sequence. Question 6:Man in bushes, final scene with man in bushes, man standing at windows and man holding picture.Question 2:Question 7:All said yes.Question 3:Creepy, unpredictable, could have of been darker, sinister and shadowy, it was realistic, gave a feeling of no escape!Question 8:Built up tension, matched the characters and setting and dramatic. Question 9 and 10:All said yes.Question 4:See slide 5.

4. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Our opening sequence incorporates generic conventions in many ways, for example; Our opening sequence develops the conventions of a thriller as we have incorporated many conventions into one scene, which has made our audience more alert and involved. The conventions that we have included into our opening sequence give a clue about what sub genre of thriller the film may be. For example the flashback scene may indicate that the film may be a psychological thriller, whereas the forest scenes where he is following the girl show that it may be an action thriller. This is good as the audience are more interested and intrigued.The use of conventions indicate what films inspired us. The usual suspects was our main inspiration, this shows as we have used diegetic and non-diegetic sounds. To make it seem realistic. We also added a sense of confusion into the opening sequence with the use of a flashback. We also added a lot of action into 2.00 minuets and this was good as it built up tension well, like in the usual suspects. This shot is a great way of incorporating a generic convention, as we have not shown the face of the mysterious man until the very end of the opening sequence. This has therefore created mystery throughout the whole opening sequence, as we want to know what he looks like. Then when we finally see his face , we get a shock.

5. This shot shows the start of the flashback scene which is a key concept in the thriller genre.

6. Using an over the shoulder shot created anticipation and tension. It also gave a sense of mystery, of who the man is.By using the black and white effect we also fit the generic conventions of a thriller as it gives the scene a sense of mystery. 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?Gender is represented in a stereotypical way as the girls as I have already stated are vulnerable and innocent, whereas the man Is stereotyped to be scary and masculine and have a sense of mystery to him. Our audience is partially represented as stereotypes in the opening sequence as the girls in the film are teenagers and vulnerable and that is what are target audience is. However the man in the opening sequence does not represent our target audience very well as not all of our male audience are stalkers and scary!Social Groups represented :Gender : The main gender represented in our opening sequence is females, as the girl is seen to be the more important character.. But there is a definite representation of males.

7. Age : The age group represented in our thriller is late teens and early 20’s. This is represented by the slightly older man and the two girls.

8. Class : is represented in our thriller by using middle class girls and man, and you can tell this by the clothes they are wearing, and speech etc.

9. Stereotypes : The girls are definitely stereotyped as being vulnerable and innocent, by using the scene at the beginning where they are talking. Question 4 “What stereotypes do you feel that we portrayed in our opening sequence?” The answers that we received from this question in our questionnaire varied. But most people said; Young, vulnerable girls

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