Evaluation of the Death Scene Non-Diegetic Sound

Having almost finished the final version of our film opening, I wanted to evaluate the non-diegetic sound that I created for the death scene.

Linking with the footage, I feel that, though the music is quite "action" themed, it adds tension and depth to the visuals in the clips of the gore that is shown. It's also a good way to get the viewer encased into the clips, the music being stimulating rather than too repetitive or boring making it appropriate for our film opening.

It also links to the target audience of 15 years and up, 15 being the age rating that we would give the film, as it relates to the type of music that people of that age range listen to. Rock music, of which it takes a lot of inspiration from, is the type of music that people in their late teens to early twenties can relate to, making it current and relevant to the viewers.

Being a slasher film, the non-diegetic sound of the most graphic scene within the film opening, the death scene, also needed to link to the preferences of the viewers, looking at the social groups that would like to watch this type of film genre- slasher. Being a low tone, techno-rock sound, the non-diegetic music also gives a feeling of intensity to the film opening, building up to a peak and then finishing off the extract nicely.

To conclude, the non-diegetic sound within the death scene, I feel, is very appropriate, linking to the footage, genre of the film opening, the target audience and the social groups that would watch a film of this genre.

Target Audience of our Film Opening

Before we start officially filming, I just wanted to do a short blog post, officially stating who our target audience will be for our film opening.

Discussing it with my group, we decided, through deconstructions of age ratings and other research, that our film opening would be classed as a "15"- related to the intensity of gore shown through the extract that we will be making. The specification of a film rated 15 is shown below with comments made of how they relate to our film opening idea:

Any of the following may be included:

• strong violence - there will be a lot of this
• frequent strong language 
• portrayals of sexual activity - prostitution will be a subject within the film opening
• strong verbal references to sex
• sexual nudity
• brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
• discriminatory language or behaviour
• drug taking

The target audience, related to genre preference, will be those who like slasher films and are not bothered by blood and gore.

This, being classified, will help us in the process of creating the storyboards and when editing, making sure the product that we produce is acceptable within the requirements of this type of target audience.