I feel like I attracted the audience very well by using a character around the same age. By having a main character around the same age as your target audience it makes it easier for them to relate to the story. Many of the audience members I had thought of would be very similar to Charlie in age and personality and therefore able to put themselves in his shoes and try to imagine what he was going through.
The use of music I felt worked very well as it was music by the band Set It Off who not many people know of if you were to go up to many people 16-19 and ask them they wouldn't know who they were but for my audience members who I had imagined they would listen to them or recognise the song. the song was called the Haunting and I felt like it fit in with what the film as about and how Charlie felt.
This also attracts the audience due to the fact that many people think that if the film has a good soundtrack its more than likely a good film and if they audience member likes the band or the song they may relate to the characters more, especially as the character actually listens to the song and it isn't just playing in the background. if that song means something to a person then they will relate the character to the song and want to watch the whole film as they feel like they can connect with them.
The setting of Horror films are usually in a very isolated place, with the location of my opening being in an old tree house on private land so there was field around in all directions it gave the feeling of isolation. Most audience members of the Horror genre will want the isolation and places to look scary and by having a old tree house it really brought the innocent kind of horror which in some cases the audience find more scary. By having the tree house and a very young character in the film it really brought out a shocking story line which I feel could grip the audience very well. When my opening was show to a few audience member they said they really liked it and wanted to watch more as the opening was very griping and they wanted to know how/ why she fell and what Rosie was going to do next let alone Charlie.
Some of the camera angles and shots were very precarious and I felt like the camera work brought a sense of adventure into it and the fact that the Rosie being the younger and less dominant character of the two could well be more stronger and dominated the scene by some of the shots. I thought by using a high angle shot of Rosie looking down towards Charlie portrayed that she could be the stronger of the two and it made Charlie look venerable, this could give the audience a different view on Rosie as a character and that she isn't as innocent and weak as she looks. The fact that the Camera work along entails so much mystery could pull the audience into the story especially with the point of view shots ( for example the shot of Rosie falling off the tree house, it was very unexpected and you felt when watching it that you had just fallen yourself. This may intrigue the
audience into wanting to see what its like to be in a possessed persons body and how they see the world).
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