We would like to think that our piece could reach a wide range of social groups but due to the classic content within our media piece, it may reach specifically a younger teenage audience.
This may be due to the fact that we have shown a younger female character as weak and vulnerable, this is often the view of many people and we played on this theme to make it more believable and easier to accept by the younger targeted audience group. We looked at many different thriller films and most of them seemed to have a vulnerable female lead, as this is what is expected so we made sure that this was apparent through such details as her bare feet and a long black dress to cover her showing she is vulnerable, as this is not where she expected to be on this day/night. we wanted her to look vulnerable to the male character but to her situation and in turn life. Our female characetr is very similar to that of Clarice Starling in Hannibal Lector the difference being she is a strong character being taken over by the strong male character, but the scenario of the female lead being taken and captured by a strong and slightly menatlly ill character, as she is an older female lead she is portrayed as sexy and vulnerable compared to our characters just naive and vulnerable.
We also used an older man to be our villain, this is because being older it looks like he has more power and in control over the innocent and small girl in in comparison, again this is an expected occurrence between the younger social groups, because we knew this from research and basic knowledge we made sure that we did this for them so it would be more appealing for them to watch.
We also made sure he was wearing black to show a also intellectually strong man who knows what he is doing by covering himself from head to toe to cover up what his crime, however we have shown that he has a guilty conscience about him, making him at time seem as weak and vulnerable as the young female character.
We created his quality appearance by creating the ‘shifty eye moment’.
This adds an extra dimension for the audience to watch as they do not know his circumstances and to weather to trust this character or not.
By doing this it has allowed us to use different close ups and shots and really allow people to get a quick look at this character. We used a lot of hand and foot shots by doing the close up of typically strong features this creates the enigma of a typically strong and dominant man it also allows people to not be able to recognise the male character making him a stranger and slightly more domineering to explore the male character. The close up shots are a similar recognition to our biggest inspiration ‘Se7en’ as it lets the audience get close to see the ‘brains behind the operations’ with skilled tasks and quite psychotic behaviour, overall showing a unhinged character.
We also used the music which Emily's Dad Ian Clarke composed for us using such examples of Seven and other dark films in order to get what we wanted, Ian used drums and strings to give a modern twist to a classic thriller film.
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