Evaluation Question 5. How Did You Attract/Adress Your Audience?
Genre conventions; in this respect our film is similar to Halloween in the seemingly motiveless male, black-clad psychotic who appears as if from nowhere, but then as it progresses (which it never does) it becomes closer to The Grudge, The Ring with an undead, young, female killer.

In narrative order it is closer to Ms. 45 or the Grudge as the woman(or girl) being wronged at the start and then the killing begins. If we had the chance i would try and steer it more in the direction of ALIEN having the monster never totally seen but it was far to light and Ashton park closed way to early.

Music, sound; This is a very obvious comparison. Dead Silence. Because it is the same music. But it does go well with both because they both feature younger evil. Dead Silence is about killer dolls which are of course associated with childhood and ours features a child prominently. The nursery rhyme feel really goes with both the atmosphere. There is one of the few bit we kept the diagetic sound for, when the girl is running up the hill we kept the rushing wind as it gave the sense a pursuit was in order.

Mise En Scene; As i have already compared Aidens killer to the like of Christopher Lees Dracula and Micheal Myers a lot I should probably talk about the girl. We tried to make her not only look younger but also more innocent by giving her knee socks, pink clothes, some kind of girly shoes that i forget the name of. This sounds stereotypical of a young girl but we have seen so many female protagonists reject this role (Kill Bill, Cat woman, Ripley from ALIEN, Sarah Connor from The Terminator, Whatever the girl from Once Upon A Time In Mexico was called..) and become martial arts masters, kicking men in the crotch ( Men who always come to rape them, which has become an incredibly common scene now. Men come up to Heroine looking evil and nasty and she either gets saved by a man or she beats them all up. This or a very similar scene is almost every recent action film with a female character, it is a cheap way of them showing off how tough and independent they are in a clear win over an enemy no one could sympathise with.) and spouting girl power one liners, to the point where this has become a far more prominent stereotype in modern cinema, not unlike the ethnic minority cop who is in there only to make it more PC, than the vulnerable woman. If this applies then our really girly Mise En Scene is actually defying stereotypes and conventions.