Our title was very well thought off, the title “suffocation” related very much to our main female character who literally feels suffocated by her violent husband. The animation on the title is what makes the title very moving and I would say successful. The animation starts of from the letters spaced out then moving together very close and almost suffocating together. The spaced out letters of suffocation help show her isolation at the beginning but then overtime the violence that it built up and created literally starts to suffocate her. When creating the title we decided to keep everything plain firstly because if we made the typography or background more fancy it wouldn’t look like British social realism film title and more and it would start to look like something which is more Hollywood based. Also by having a a simple font and background it draws attention to what the letters are actually doing, grabbing your attention and focusing on the movement. The music created with our opening sequence is very conventional firstly because it is not something mainstream, it doesn't have and lyrics and the simplicity of the music adds a huge effect to our piece. If you were to watch it without music the effect and the build of would not be the same. Our music was especially composed for us by Faiz Pokun. We told him what our idea was and he tried to create something that we would easily cut the music to but also give a dull and dreary vibe. I think our music is successful because from other audience feedback teenagers found that it was catchy and had a good base and this music is not specifically aimed at them so it just shows how effective the music really is.
The narrative in our opening sequence still sticks to being a British Social realism film but again because we aimed towards a more middle class audience. By doing this it allowed us to be able to film in more classy middle class locations. Our audience feedback alowed us to explore and expand out ideas which we already had. Our focus group gave us feedback on our orginal ideas and how we could improve them, we used a range of ethnictys and mainly teenagers because we wanted to get a better understanding of what attracted them. What really helped was firstly we had a as media student in our focus group which alowed us to get better feedback because they know what sort of answers we are looking for. We showed them a range of BSR films and asked which one they liked the best or disliked the best and feedback on each one, Zahra and myself mainly wanted feedback on one BSR film in paticular because it related theme wise to what Zahra and myself were trying to create. Looking For Eric portrayed some of the themes that we were going to show in our opening sequence such as isolation, dysfunctional families and a main thing that was a build up throughout the film was stress and in our film stress is what triggers all the bad things to happen.
I feel our idea was very original because you don't normally see many middle class BSR films and by just aiming towards a higher class allows you to be able to experiment with new techniques and new ideas and more importantly new loactions which you wouldn't see in a typical BSR film. Using better locations makes it more appealing to look at and then attracts the audience we are aiming to more.
From getting our feedback Zahra and myself then sat down and discussed our final idea what happens in our opening sequence is that we see the abusive husband at work and we see how his work is piling up and how the pressure is getting to him, we then see his journey home and how he encounters a prostitute on his way home committing adultery. And when he gets home he sees his wife waiting for him with a lovely home cooked meal but he just ignores it takes the alcohol and goes upstairs. After we see her clearing up and crying then resulting to her drowning her sorrows in alcohol. We show a lot of themes in out opening sequence and when you watch our sequence you see how we show each of them in a subtle way not making it so oblivious and unrealistic. We wanted to show enough so the audience would be able to understand what is actually going on in our opening sequence but we didn't want to show too much because it would start to become unconventional then. Overall when creating our sequence we took into consideration everything from the brief, audience feedback and teacher feedback.
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