Evaluation Q5

Our opening sequence is very similar to the film “The dark knight” as the disruption has already happened. It creates a mood of tension as the main character is killing anoher guy and there are flashbacks used throughout and will soon tell us why he killed and and what his intension was.
There are many enigmas in our opening sequence, for example where there are flashbacks, such as, “What was he doing in his office late night?”, “Why?”, “What had he done wrong?”, etc. There are also some enigmas in the field scene, for example, “Why did he kill him?”, “what is he after?”, “Who is the antagonist and protagonist ”, “where is she?”, “will she ever get home?”, etc. These are your typical enigmas in a thriller film, which will help us attract our audience, as they will want to keep watching.
We have introduced ideologies in our opening sequence, such as villains, victims and the way genders are shown. For example, our main character is a male which is very popular to have in thriller films as the female is shown as the weaker sex and men are shown as more dominant. Also we show he has more power throu the way he is dressed up.We have created a sense of time by showing the beginning where his identity is not revaealed and after when he revaeals him self. The first shot is in darkness and does not give away what is happening. P.O.V is used when he is making the bomb as we can see what he is doing from his own point of view.We used natural lighting on the second scene but we shot it during the day so it comes out clear and effective. There is also a lot of natural sound in this scene, such as the river, and the sound of the wind blowing, which is also effective as it shows the audience what time of the day.

We have used media language, the music, editing, sounds, having enigmas and ideologies to help create our opening sequence. We hope to attract our audience to keep watching, therefore by using media language we hopefully have succeeded.We used effects such as transitions to create a different style to the film (flashbacks), we have also used editing in order to create our film, such as,Cutting clips, Adjusting the volume,Applying music,Duplicating the sound from one clip and applying to anotherBy using media language, we have attracted an audience and we have kept them watching, made them ask questions understand the ideologies, shots and the way we edited it, which is what we where hoping for. Therefore we can say that it was successful.