Focus Group

Trevor Mitchell

• Trevor brought forward the idea of a male protagonist in the horror opening sequence we’ll be making. This is because males are typically seen as more independent therefore we can juxtapose this showing the feeling of loneliness in the isolated setting.

Anthony McGovern

• With Anthony we discussed the use of colour for our opening sequence. What we discovered from this was that we would definitely use colour. To show the connotations of darkness contrasting to light, colour will be pivotal. However some of our focus group disagreed and said black and white colours would best fit the genre for our opening sequence. However the idea to use colour was the one we went with as this would have a profound effect on the audience.

Mariana Tugulea

• Mariana said she would prefer a male protagonist as it would mean we could present more shock. Plus she suggested that the male protagonist is shown significantly during the whole opening sequence as it would engage the audience. Also the perspective of the killer would be instantly shown and it would give off a frantic feeling straight away by using dark clothing as this relates to darkness and evil. Also with the male protagonist being young it would help relate to our young target audience of horror fans.

Adrianna Karpiel

• When we interviewed Adrianna she brought up the idea of using Web 2.0 and how it will be effective to use it because of the vast amount of other people who use it. Also by using Web 2.0 it would us to promote the film in different ways for example the use of social networking sites (e.g. Facebook & Twitter) so we can promote the film to a mass audience.

Molly Furey

• Molly gave us ideas about how to present disequilibrium and the killer in our opening sequence. The aim of this is to scare the audience in order to elicit a deliberate response. By representing the killer as iconic either visually or use of camera angles we can show unstructured or frantic camera angles to show the killer in terms of customers. For example low angle can connote the killer having more power and using shots with frantic camera movement can connote the lack of balance of the killer. To give a sense of disequilibrium for the killer the camera angle will depict evilness.