Qyestion 5 essay

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8W9qr7DB-o – Walking Dead opening Credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFeM-Qhh1tQ – Enigma opening credits

 


 Due to the research I obtained through the audience research, I was able to create an opening that would appeal to my target audience. I was able to obtain this by looking at actual thriller openings and taking inspiration from them.  I look at thrillers such as the Walking Dead, Pulp Fiction and Se7en. These are all established successful thrillers and I’ve taken inspiration from all of their opening sequences to ensure my production fits the thriller genre and appeals to my target audience.  

From the Walking Dead I have taken inspiration by from the mise en scene of their opening titles. In the Walking Dead opening titles they have included the setting of the programme which relates to the programme showing the audience what to expect, enticing the audience.  For example, the grave stones and empty streets and abandoned cars would raise questions among the audience, giving them an incentive to watch the show. We have also taken the soundtrack into consideration. As we saw that the sound track to the walking dead gives connotations of fear and running, it gives a suggestion to the audience what might happen during the show. When making our opening titles we took into consideration what the connotations of our soundtrack were, making sure we had a soundtrack that had the right connotations for the movie, while also adding to a feel of tension within the audience.  We also took inspiration from the Walking Dead by placing the name of the film at the end of our credits. This is because we thought it would be a good idea to have the last title the audience saw was the title of the film. 

We took the order of the title from Pulp fiction.   We made sure the most important people came first.  We began with the director however, in the Pulp Fiction opening credits the director is the third title. We decided to include the production company last because we wanted the last title the audience saw was the production company. However, apart from this we made sure that most of the important opening titles were placed in order of importance.  For example the directors then the three starring actors, then screen writers. We replicated this order by having the director first, then having the starring actors then the main jobs such as the producers, co-producers and head cinematographer.

We took from Se7en the idea of the mise en scene and its effect of the audience. The use of dangerous weapons and quick flashes of pictures to unsettle the audience to create tension was what we tried to implement in our thriller opening.  The continuous flashing throughout the opening to create an old footage effect, while disorientating the audience, is how we tried to build tension for the audience. Also the close up shot of a dead person to unsettle the audience was also another method we replicated from the opening of Se7en. We also took into consideration the soundtrack from the opening of se7en. The heavy base and low eerie uncomfortable sounds that were included added to the tension of the opening. This coupled with the imagery of dangerous weaponry created tension

 
 

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