Evaluation Task 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Music and Sound
We played a creepy soundtrack throughout the majority of our opening titles, this would then give the audience a clue that it is going to be a horror film and that something bad is going to happen. To build the tension up we also included creepy music to show that something was going to happen to the woman that was home alone. We also included the laugh of the clown to show that he is out to cause danger to people and to show he is getting close and closer. We decided to use music to build up tension because then the audience would then want to watch to find our what happens to the innocent woman.

Similarities to other movies 
We decided to link parts of our movies to other clips that we liked in movies that created a creepy atmosphere. We liked the part in Scream when they focus on the sharp kitchen knife to make it seem more scary, so we used a similar clip in our film, when we filmed the woman putting the kitchen knife back into the stand, to make people get the idea that something bad will happen. We also liked the idea of the scenes in IT when the balloons pop in peoples faces so we used this idea in ours too, we just didn't use fake blood in the balloons because we figured out that it would have took us too long to get the correct shot of it.

Genre Conventions
We use a lot of genre conventions in our film. But the main one is focusing on Trunco the clown, as he is the main evil character and we want people to know that he is dangerous and is our to cause harm. We used the idea of a clown as the main character as clowns are usually seen as innocent and friendly, but our clown is completely different to that stereotype so that's what makes our film so interesting and this would be a good selling point to our film as our audience would want to find out why the clown has such a big aim to go out and kill.