Constructing An Opening, Engaging the Audience

Main Character

The main character of our film also brought much research and planning to our opening. Initially and ideally we hoped to include a teenage girl inn our opening to add to the horror effect top the film. Teenage girls are stereotypically used in most horror films and add the aspect of vulnerability and innocence to the film. However, we do not have access to a character like this so therefore we have resulted in choosing to use a 20 years old semi-professional actor. Despite the acting not being marked in our opening we strongly believe that by including an effective actor we will be able to engage the audience more effectively and make the opening seem more realistic thus, forming stronger emotional connections with the audience and result in them wanted to watch the remainder of the film.

Enigma Code

Our film opening as a whole could be considered as an enigma code. Several aspects of our opening will contribute to the overall effect of gaining the attention of the audience. The audience will be provoked to question why the main character is where he is, who put him there and how he got there in the first place. These questions will be raised through the audience seeing the character strapped to a chair with no previous explanations. The fact the we will include brief flashbacks displaying the character taking pictures results in the audience question why the boy was there in the first place, questioning the reasoning behind the events and where they are all taking place. The recognition of dolls in the opening will force the viewers to query why the dolls are there and whether they have any convenience an influence to the plot. The use of enigma code in our opening will make the viewer want to continue watching the entirety of the film.

Everyday Life

Through many debates on what we will include in our film opening to engage the audience, we have decided that we will not include the aspect of everyday life for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we only have a limited amount of time to intrigue the audience and by filling it up mostly with everyday life, the opening could be considered as boring and therefore result in weak connections madd wit the audience. Also through our opening we need to define the genre of our film and by including a lot of everyday life it could result in the genre of our film being vague and unclear.