Evaluation Question Five

How did you attract/address your audience?

We aimed to attract both adults and teenagers in our film. As you can see from the screen shot below we have captured the part where we include young love into our film. Being a teenager myself I understand the appeal of including a love interest into the film as many teenagers find the prospect interesting and something that they can relate to. The picture above shows two stereotypical teenagers who are obviously in love. As you can see there are similarities in both of these images, which suggests the link between teenagers and the subject matter in our film.

Although the characters in our film are teenagers themselves we are also trying to attract young adults as well, because we believe that the darker aspects of it will be more fitting for an older audience. The part where Ross is shown hanging may confuse a younger audience and may also prevent them from wanting to watch the rest of the film, as it prevents them from watching the romance develop and also shows that it is less likely to have a happy ending.

Although this may deter certain teenagers from watching our film, the fact that we have included a fair bit of action within the first two minutes and introduced two of the main characters may keep them interested even after Ross is shown dead. The fact that romance is one of the main components of the film, may make soppier members of the audience more inclined to watch it, but also the fact that there is a murder and a psychopathic ex- girlfriend involved it will also attract the thrill seekers.

Film lovers may also be interested in our Thriller as we have tried to incorporate aspects of other famous films. The opening titles may immediately remind the viewer of the opening titles in the film; 'Se7en' as the diary in the beginning of our film and the font used for the titles shows some similarities with the opening of the famous Thriller.

I think that although we used these methods to attract our specific target audience, we also used quirky music, editing and camera shots to create a mysterious, unconventional film which could appeal to a larger audience for many different reasons. People may be attracted to our Thriller purely for the soundtrack or because we have used a black and white effect. Others may want to watch our film because of the characters or because of the editing style we have used. Hopefully the methods that we have incorporated into the making of this film will appeal to not only the people that we have talked about here, but to a variety of different people with different tastes.

Amy Reeve