evaluation question 6

How i attracted the audience.

How did you attract your audience?

I used many ways to attract a specific audience in different ways.

I have attempted to attract a predominantly male orientated audience,  I have done this in a few ways such as; the use of a male as the main characters which gives men someone to relate to, also the use of smoking throughout which is often known as a mainly male activity, and guns are used which shows violence. 

To attract the audience I have created an enigma code, 'what is in the package?' I have managed to do this by having the man in the balaclava looking very shifted and the business man being very eager to get his hands on the package. Just before the package is revealed the police arrived which makes us question, 'why are the police after this package?' The use of the enigma code attracts the audience by keeping them questioning and on there toes, wanting to find out what is in the package. It also helps to make the audience feel involved in the storyline.

I have tried to keep the audience quite young by using a dubstep soundtrack. This kicks in just as the police office arrives and shouts 'police!' It plays throughout the chase which sets an edgy mood whilst still appealing to a teen/ young adult audience.

I would give this film a rating of 15. This is because of the use of guns and violence,  although I  did not want to make make the rating as 18 because this would cut out a large quantity of the teen thriller audience who would enjoy this style of film. 

The chase scene is full of fast pace cutting and editing

After rewatching my edit I feel that i could improve this substantially as i feel that my match on action is quite choppy and this could be improved and also i could of colour corrected it better as the lighting still looks too bright.

Spoiler Review- 3 of 3

Fight Club

The nameless narrator is a traveling automobile company employee who suffers from insomnia. His doctor refuses to give him medication and advises him to visit a support group to witness more severe suffering. The narrator attends a support group for testicular cancer victims and fools them into thinking he is a fellow victim, this helps him find an emotional release that relieves his insomnia. He becomes addicted to attending support groups and pretending to be a victim, but the presence of another impostor, Marla Singer, disturbs him, so he negotiates with her to avoid their meeting at the same groups.

After a flight home from a business trip, the narrator finds his apartment destroyed by an explosion. He calls Tyler Durden, a soap salesman who he became friends with on the flight, and they meet at a bar. A conversation about consumerism leads to Tyler inviting the narrator to stay at his house; outside the bar he requests that the narrator hit him. The two engage in a fistfight, and the narrator subsequently moves into Tyler's house. They have further fights outside the bar, and these attract a crowd of men. The fighting moves to the bar's basement where the men form a "fight club".

Marla overdoses on pills and phones the narrator for help; he ignores her, but Tyler answers the call and saves her. Tyler and Marla become lovers, and Tyler warns the narrator never to talk to Marla about him. More fight clubs form across the country, and under Tyler's leadership, they become the anti-materialist and anti-corporate organization called "Project Mayhem". The narrator complains to Tyler that he wants to be more involved in the organisation, but Tyler suddenly disappears. When a member of Project Mayhem is killed by the police during a botched sabotage operation, the narrator tries to shut down the project, and uses evidence of Tyler's travelling to track him down. In one city, a Project member greets the narrator as Tyler Durden. 

The narrator calls Marla from his hotel room and discovers that Marla also believes him to be Tyler. He suddenly sees Tyler in his room, and Tyler explains that they are disassociated personalities in the same body. Tyler controls the narrator's body when the narrator is asleep.

The narrator blacks out after the conversation. When he wakes, he discovers from his phone call log that Tyler made calls during his blackout. He uncovers Tyler's plans to erase debt by destroying buildings that contain credit card companies' records. The narrator tries to contact the police but finds that the officers are members of the Project. He attempts to disarm explosives in a building, but Tyler stops him and moves to a safe building to watch the destruction. The narrator, held by Tyler at gunpoint, realizes that in sharing the same body with Tyler, he himself is actually holding the gun. He fires it into his mouth, shooting through the cheek without killing himself. Tyler collapses with an exit wound to the back of his head, and the narrator stops mentally projecting him. Afterward, Project Mayhem members bring a kidnapped Marla to him, believing him to be Tyler, and leave them alone. The explosives detonate, collapsing the buildings, and the narrator and Marla watch the scene, holding hands.

I would rate this film 4 out of 5. This is an effective thriller as it leaves question in your head the whole way through the film. It uses mystery very well, it also keeps the viewer at the edge of there seat waiting for the answer to the enigma code to be revealed. 

Marking previous opening sequences

I have given this opening a high level 2/ low level 3.
The positives are that they have used some understanding of the rule of thirds and reasonably good use of match on action.
Although the elements holding it back are that they have used the camera hand held which has then made this poor quality and also they have not put in much effort of making the camera straight or into there props or locations. Also they have not included as many titles as they should include.



I would give this opening a high level 3.
It is a good opening as they have built up suspense and mystery throughout so it is effect in being a thriller movie.
The aspects holding this opening back from being a level 4 would be that they have not used the rule of thirds very often and also they haven't used match on action, instead they have just cut between the characters.




I would count this opening as a level 4.
They have used the location to there advantage and they have used  a variety of shot types and angles, also the miss en scene in this clip is amazing and they have really put the effort in. They have also used a good variety of foley and soundtracks.

Foley- falling down sequence

Here is a sequence in which we added all of the over the top of the video, as foley. This will help when making my own title sequence as it was good practice for getting the sound to fit in with the sequence and the timing.

End of Module Report 2

I would mark my current efforts as an E1. This is rather disappointing as this is a very low mark. I have allowed myself to get this mark as I have been lazy and not completed all of the work set for my individual and group blog. I now need to work really hard to bring my blog posts up to date and improve the standards of all of my work.