Engaging The Audience

Engaging Our Audience

Although our sub-genre is 'psycho' we will still use typical horror conventions to keep our audience engaged throughout our film opening sequence.

• We will use very fast paced scenes keeping the audience engaged along with a variety of camera shots to show Ophelia's mind as well as making the audience have to focus on what is happening.
• We will use Roland Barthe's enigma codes to create an unexplained opening sequence to engage the audience.
• We will also use semantic codes, the blood and the red velvet cake, specifically to imply a meaning behind what is going on
• Use a combination of slow motion and fast paced shots to build up and release tension for the audience.
• The use of the heartbeat increasing suggests danger and will keep the audience engaged.
• Use a very tense song to convey our genre as well as correlating well with our piece. It should also have moments of breathing or some sort of ambient sound to confuse the audience and create a sinister atmosphere.
• We hope to use various editing transitions to either fade to black or straight into the next clip to once again add distortion.
• Both of our scenes will be filmed in dark which is a clear convention of a horror film, however for the party scene we may need to saturate the clips creating a more sinister feel.
• Our locations are going to contrast completely to show the vast difference between Ophelia's behaviour and will also represent the title 'Two-Faced'. This will also keep the audience engaged as they will have to focus on what is going on. 
• We haven't decided whether to have dialogue or not as having a small amount may make it more scary.
• As Blumer and Katz theory suggests we want our audiences to escape from their everyday lives as well as also being entertained and so by keeping our audience engaged should allow this to happen.