Preliminary task- I asked one of the students in my sixth form, that I do not know very well. She is an ICT student and thus knows a bit about filming as it was a requirement in one of her units.
I allowed her to watch it through once and then asked for her response. In terms of mise en scene she felt that the use of an art classroom was appropriate, and she felt the use of tracking enabled her to get familiar with her surroundings, engaging her and making her want to get to know the characters. In terms of the acting she felt that script was very well written, however she felt the Mother character could have committed more and been engaged in her speech. I did indeed inform her that it was 3-way conversation in that the mother character is unaware of the presence of the child character, although I realise that we could have made that more obvious by directing the actor a bit more, telling her what her mode of address should consist of.
Other than that I she felt that the target audience of 17 and over, and most importantly all the technical aspects reflect verisimilitude, in that we plausibly created extraordinary things happening in fairly ordinary situations.
She also felt that the child character resembled that of the child character in 2009’s ‘Orphan’ horror film. I feel that this good that she recognised this element of intertexuality, as it demonstrates the research that took place when thinking about my narrative structure.
Main task- I asked two previous media students about how the camera angles, mise en scene and especially editing helped to shape the narrative and whether this is suited for a 15+ target audience.
Again I allowed them to watch it through twice they said that particularly the change of colour (in the scene where a antagonist is stroking the main characters dog) allowed them to recognise that all wasn’t what it seemed. I feel that this is a good response because this created enigma, in that they couldn't quite put their finger on what indeed would cause the disequilibrium in the narrative structure.
In terms of non-diegetic sound, they said that this held strong intensity and was unsettling and resembled the common codes and conventions of the thriller genre.
As a whole the two students stated that there is a recognition of the style of filming that is evident in mainstream media such as the recent niche film ‘Paranormal activity’.
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