Evaluation Activity 5

How did you address/attract your audience?



By using different types of sound, fast-paced rhythms and impact beats there was a good effect on how to orchestrate the audiences' pulse. Fight scenes at the very beginning from films like Rush Hour 2 and Skyfall played a big part in how we would produce the opening two minutes. This also made us include certain techniques and elements to bring out the best of the fight scene. This opening two minutes had the copyright music, but we had kept it on to show the differences we have made to the latest final version of the opening two minutes, the final version can be found at the bottom, and you will notice the changes, even though some of the changes are small they are noticeable, which has made the difference.

This is a fight scene from Rush Hour 2

This scene from Rush Hour 2, is a fight scene where Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker are involved in an outnumbered fight situation, this influenced our decision to keep the victim handicapped, we intended to show the audience that the victim (Tom) was inferior to the main actor (Aran), this was shown by Aran holding a weapon such as the knife, this helped the audience differnetiate as to who was more superior in the situation. Another element we included in our opening two minutes was that we tried to convey to the audience who the story line revolved around, after the murder in the film, from the audience's view it looked like a murder, whereas form Aran's point of view it was just an assignment, this was showing some kind ruthlessenss in Aran's character.




This the fight scene from Skyfall

This scene from skyfall showed the audience that it was an action blockbuster, the fight scene is very intense, fast-paced and flawless. The stunts were very elaborate, some of which are not able to be performed without a stunt double, this was very precise, whereas in our opening two minutes we did not have access to such vast resources, our cast was so small that it limited us to what we could do and what we couldn't do. On the other hand, if we had the access to such a vast array of resources I think we could have pulled off professioanl movie making easily. This was one of the reasons as to why we kept along the lines of having fast paced, thrilling fight scene, right at the beginning, to set the tone of the movie, and give the audience the feeling of suspense and excitement. By implementing the main elements of an action movie such as blood pumping action scenes, adrenaline rushing fight scenes we created a miniature version of an action opening two minutes compared to an opening of an action movie such as Skyfall, which made more than a $1 billion at the box office.  



We were influenced from the Skyfall fight scene when the main character (007) had more prevalence in fighting, Aran was the main actor, so we gave him more prevalence in the fighting scene by making Aran inflict more pain onto the victim who was Tom. This was also emphasized upon when tom spat out some blood onto the wall, he was being tossed here and there by Aran, a couple of punches were thrown at him (from Aran), this further shows that the fight scene we implemented was influenced by intense film fight scenes such as Skyfall.  

This is the final version of the opening two minutes, where as I have mentioned before some changes have been made due to the feedback we received, this has been very productive and has also helped us as a group and as individuals be more critical of our work, this has enabled us to bring out the best in our work, and make the differences we need to make in order to achieve high standards.