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Thursday, 1 November 2012

Audience response to 'Narrative Pitch'

Characters:

The audience felt that the main character was a unique selling point and could play as an intriguing appealing character, being the typical unexpected hero. However, they felt that there may not be enough characters, just the protagonist, the princess and the three aiding characters. They felt that there may not be enough characters to create a strong interesting narrative. Taking this into consideration I have thought of a stronger structure of events to create a better more intriguing narrative, taking into consideration the responses from the horror target audience survey. They felt that the horror villain typically being a ghost was particularly strong as, based on the survey responses ghosts are the scariest thing in a horror and it being an unknown entity.

Setting:

The main setting would be the school and the underground metal structure of the mechanical room, where they go to turn the lights back on. The target audience felt these were both strong settings for a horror movie, the office being eerie, with clinical oppressive lighting and hospital white walls, this will create fear as in terms of the narrative this is where our protagonist feels safe, which is ironic as it is a scary place for the audience, thus creating suspense. The underground room was particularly appealing to the target audience as they felt being underground typically connotes fear and a feeling of isolation and clostraphobia. They also felt pathetic fallacy could be a strong feature in the film, the underground being dirty and cold connotes more fear and creates a chilling atmosphere.

Narrative:

The audience felt that the narrative was particularly strong as typically seen in a horror there was a twist in narrative, the real villain being the anonymous. This was appealing as it created an intriguing, horrific narrative, which hasn't been seen before. It also appealed to the target audience capturing both their fears of supernatural villains, and physical real life villains, creating the most scary horror, making the most out of my narrative. They did feel however, that the opening equilibrium may be hard to tell clearly so that the audience understand the ordinary nature of the camera being used. However, they did feel it would create fear strengthening the genre as it made it more real, and natural.



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