One way in which we attracted our audience was through the use of the characters emotion. Our character was a regular 17/18 year old male, so hopefully some of our audience could have related to the characters emotions and understand him. We did this purposely for that reason.
We also heightened the characters mood and emotions throughout our piece through our use of mise-en-scene, soundtrack and camerawork. Through the mise-en-scene we had quite dull and drab locations rather than bright locations with a warming feel places. (see below screen grab) This allowed us to portray the characters emotion onto the screen, therefore we feel our audience will be able to feel the protagonists emotions better. Also with the dark grey setting and the characters lack of coat we hoped to put across this feeling of vulnerability to the character.
Dark, grey setting of beach area
Another way we portrayed our protagonists emotion was through our use of the soundtrack. We had two different scores being played for each half of our piece. The first score was intense for the flashback sequence and almost acted as a warning of something to come, we chose this as it would capture the audiences imagination and hopefully make them want to watch on. In the second half of the sequence we have a very different score. Compared to the other score it is softer and incorporates the use of the piano. We feel this score more reflected the characters depressed state of mind. This was vital in attracting the audience as it helped them feel the emotion of the character, which is what people going to watch emotional dramas want.
Through our use of camera work we helped portrayed our characters emotions further. This is illustrated in the picture below where we have a close-up on the protagonists face, this shows his sadness and emotion and it is clear for the audience to see and feel also.
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