Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

In Devil's Daughter we have attempted to keep the audience attracted and intrigued by using a variety of different camera angles and using music at times of tension.
For example, we use an over the shoulder shot paired with quite, tension building music when Rachel first sees the possessed girl. This indicates to the audience that something bad is about to happen.

We used calming opening credits to create an eerie setting right from the start. This helps to indicate to the audience that something isn't quite right as it almost seems too quiet. The only sounds in these shots are the background nature sounds (birds, water, wind etc).

Our questionnaire helped us to find out what teenagers like in horror/thriller films and also helped us decide on what kind of characters to include. The majority of our questionnaire participants thought that a young girl would work best as the antagonist, this helped us to choose a young possessed girl as being the villain. We also found out that the majority of people thought that teenage girls would be the best choice for the protagonists in the film.

To gain audience feedback we showed our film opening to our media class. We got generally good feedback with one person even saying that when the possessed girl was revealed it "made them jump". People said they liked the opening sequence as they felt it gave a false sense of security. To improve we were told that some of the cuts between shots could be cut slightly shorter.