5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Before i did my filming i did some audience research and their feedback was able to help me to produce a good piece of work which included all the things they desired. The four questions that i asked were:
1) What Genre of film do you like and why?
2) What do you like to see in the opening of a film?
3) Are there any openings of a film that you particularly like?
4) Do you like credits at the beginning of a film?

From this i was able to have a good understanding as to what i should incude in the opening of my film. As the feedback which i received said that people don't like to have a lot of credits in the opening, i limited the credits in mine to two or three. Also, the audience whom i asked stated that they don't like to see very much given away in the opening of a film and this is what i did. I didn't give very much away at all, i just established the basic location and the build up to a game which was about to happen.

I was able to attract the audience by keeping them thinking about what was happening and giving away new pieces of information to enable them to build a picture of what the film and main character was really about.

In the beginning, as there was no dialogue the audience had to be able to understand what was happening and where everything was based. I was able to do this in a number of different ways, in my first two shots i showed wide shots of the two locations - Wymondham High School and Wymondham Leisure Centre - and already the audience was able to understand where the clip was being situated.

By him getting changed and putting on his basketball kit they were able to understand that he was preparing himself for a game, which then lead to him doing some shooting practice. With him having a personalised kit it was also able to represent his importance and also the standard of which he's playing at. It just shows that even by not having dialogue a clip can still be as effective and everyone's still aware of what's happening.

I was able to keep the film going at a relatively good pace which kept the audience interested. There were times that the clip became slow but this was only done for effect such as the last shot, in which the clip of him shooting is done in slow motion.