FINAL CUT

I find the material is suitable for the target audience and task because our target audience is mainly 25-50 year olds in which I believe the final cut is suitable.
For my primary research we sent out a questionnaire to all students of Hartlepool Sixth Form College to get their opinions on how they prefer Film Noirs whether it be old fashioned or contempory (neo-noir). With this research we discovered that 16-18 year olds prefer neo-noirs such as Se7en. To incorporate the opinions of 16-18 year olds (students) to 25-50 year olds (staff of college) we have used young actors and a modern storyline to appeal to the younger audience and we have also put our film in black and white to add that old fashioned noir convention to appeal to the older audience.

I feel that the use of titles have been successful. After studying the title timeline of Se7en, we found how films put their titles at the beginning in a specific order, in which we copied and replaced with our own names for our sequence. All of the titles are the correct time apart and show the relevant jobs we all participated in. 

The sound we used was created on GarageBand and then submitted to sound cloud to be used in our sequence. The instrument used was a piano, used in a low key to add effectiveness to the sorrowful mood we were trying to create. The music I feel fits well with the way I have edited the sequence, in places (e.g. The mirror dropping scene) the music was put to silent to enhance the sound of the mirror almost smashing, I believe that was a clever technique. 

Some of the shots in the sequence represent film noir well, for example in the opening scene after the graphic match from the wanted poster to the kidnapper, the kidnapper is just a silhouette, with just a noticeable outline of his trench coat and trilby hat. We have used this shot because you can see the kidnappers face with is a convention of film noir as it has kept the antagonist's identity a mystery. This shot was also taken at a low angle to show that this antagonist may hold more power than the other characters. 

We have paid a lot of attention to mise en scene in our sequence with it being a film noir, they have more specific costumes that a horror for example. We have used suits and dresses appropriate for the sequence and the time period to make it seem more realistic to the audience.