Part 1 Evaluation

The Brief to which we were working to targeted towards 16- 24 year old's which was our target audience we had to produced a opening sequence to a British Social Realism film - working for Film 4. Our opening sequence had to be entirely original and we to keep the brief at all times. Due to the fact that this was a,  British Social realism film the budget for the film was low meaning we had to think about the locations and cast for our opening sequence  The title of Rianne and I's opening sequence is 'Suffocation' we believe that the tittle clearly connotes the themes which would occur in our film which is isolation, loneliness  domestic violence  and alcohol. the Husband feels suffocated din his everyday life and despite the fact he quite respectable the hassles of daily life lead him into committing adultery and domestic violence, his wife on the other hand is oppressed by his violence and alcohol addiction but she still tries to play a good wife to him. producing the opening sequence Rianne and i think we have defiantly kept to our Treatment which refers to the fact that we kept to the themes of domestic violence, isolation and loneliness.

  These themes are related to the primary audience research which we conducted. Also the treatment shows how we kept the target audience in mind at all times whilst producing our opening sequence. Rianne and i decided to use a focus group as it gave us a wider range of qualitative answers which were very useful in the production of out opening sequence. the focus group consisted of teenagers aged 16-19, these are ages well into our target audience and give us a very clear insight to what teenagers thought in general about a BSR film and how they liked our ideas. Here as you can see the focus group responded positively to the themes within our opening sequence.  Click here to see the response we got from our focus group. I think that our opening sequence closely reflates to the Film 4 BSR film 'Looking For Eric' Not so much the locations and cast but the themes involved. Eric is a man suffering from loneliness and isolation he is fed up of his everyday boring life. Which closely coincides with the themes within our opening sequence. Also he is struggling to meet the demands of his Family and clearly portrays the theme of dysfunctional families i think that the fact that our character abuses his wife- even though this is not shown very subtly in the opening sequence it shows a dysfunctional family which is a major theme incorporated into British Social Realism films, it shows the reality of everyday life and the hardships many people actually have to go though. 

Eric Failing to keep up with life.

Our main actor (Adam) failing to keep up with life.

 Also i think that the music from the opening sequence of 'This Is England' has inspired the music in ours. The fact the beat of the music cuts to when an important shot is taking place and because we have no dialogue in the opening sequence we had to make sure that the music itself told a story just the like the background music from This Is England, again which is a film 4 film. BSR films tend to have a lot of ambiguity in the opening sequences which is an important convention in BSR films and i think Rianne and i conformed to that well.