Evaluation Question 5

To appeal to our audience we used a variety of techniques in our sequence. We never let go of the suspense by choosing to keep the eerie music going throughout. Many people thought that the assault was the main event of the sequence, this put them into a false sense of security and made the climax even more shocking. Many members of the audience told us that they found the sequence fairly scary. Factors that contributed to the fear factor were:

• The fact that it was shot at night


• The chilling music, especially the haunting strings towards the end


• The use of shadows

We used enigma is our film opening effectively. The main example of this is the gunshot at the end. The audience are not sure who fired the gun, this would be revealed later in the film as one of the major twists. By showing the opening though, the audience wanted to know what happens next which means that the film obviously attracted their interest.

We also addressed our audience by shooting at a normal house which would probably be similar to theirs. The garden is fairly basic which meant that the attention was not taken away from the character.

As I mentioned in the previous question we targeted our film at an audience that we knew would enjoy a film of this genre. We chose to not confuse the audience and keep our opening in one time frame and use seamless continuity. This way they would be able to enjoy it without thinking to much about what was going on. We also addresses the audience after the clip had ended by using the gunshot to suspend their disbelief that a gun has been fired. We also used our narrative image of the detective at the desk a lot in our montage sequence so people could relate to it easier and recognise it was our production.