Evaluation of how work meets the brief

 Evaluation of how work meets the brief

As the director and producer of this opening sequence and hopefully the full film, I wanted to be able show the different elements of a thriller opening sequence and show the different conventions, using different techniques. I chose to start with a nice and happy start with a girl walking home from school for the first time. Even though this looks like a nice and happy start to the opening sequence most people will know that the start is showing the fake emotions so that it seems like a normal and happy film and that nothing bad of a high extent will happy. And I used a red herring within my story to make it more suspenseful the real time the girl gets kidnapped. I kept my opening sequence at 2 minutes which is what the brief asked of me. 

This is also tailored to the correct audience as the main character is around that age and the kidnapper looks older as well but in that same age category. I tried to keep the opening sequence brief even though there is quite a lot going on just for two minutes. With all of this being used I also used the thriller films that I first looked at to help me create my own opening sequence, and the film that I used was Taken 1, as they are both kidnapping films, it helped me create my own version

With Taken it really inspired me with the idea, even though it is one of the most used ideas in thriller film history, I wanted to make my own unique version of the thriller kidnapping films, and to also get a feeling of how these films are done, because they interest and engage me so much.

My work really does show very similar features to the Taken film, as both of these screenshots are taken from their kidnapping scenes, which is one of my main thriller techniques that I used to really gain an audience in my thriller opening sequence

During my production stage of filming, I decided to try utilise as many camera angles and to see which fit the best for the scene, making sure that everything can be seen clearly and everything is easily understandable for the audience. I mainly used long shots so that more can be seen on teh shot and that the scene can start earlier and because my shots mainly used a large area space for them. I also used an over the shoulder shot to kind of give the effect that the girl is still be watched and that something still may happen to her. In post production I made sure to use music as the feedback suggest to create more suspense during the opening sequence.

During the editing process of the post production part of my opening sequence, the pace was not fast to create more tension, but it was slow to allow the audience to understand what is going on and to make it more tense by making it slower and for the audience to then crave it more. With all of this I feel as though my opening sequence stayed on target with what techniques and conventions I needed to use. Yes it did have some techniques that were a bit off book like the slow pacing but I felt like it worked so it's okay, and overall I feel like it checked every box with the client brief.

Also the brief talks about how the target audience is "16-24 year olds" which is also what my thriller is targeting. Even though I put that my thriller can be available to watch for people 12+ which yes is true but it will mostly appeal to the target audience that was set by the brief which is also another reason as to how this thriller product meets the briefs guidelines.