Evaluation Question 5
- 2. Our Target Audience Here is an image of our generalised target audience. We have gathered data on various people as these responses came out as the most common response for a thriller film. Our target audience was 15-24 and was generally male, we also found that most people who liked thrillers had horrors as their second film genre choice on our survey. Judging by the choice of horror as the second choice we decided to make our thriller slightly eerie and conjoin the two genres so to speak. Our target audience was also a relatively normal person who listened to rock music and shoped in typical high street stores wearing the same apparel as many ordinary people.
- 3. Attracting film aspects We gave our film opening a very eerie and almost horror effect as most of our target audience also enjoyed watching horror films aswell as thrilers. This would not however appeal to some other people as they may not enjoy films with a horror or scary twist, despite our films 15 age rating. For example shots like our extreme close up of the kidnapped girls eyes with mascara running, giving an intimidating and scary atmosphere to the scene. Some people however may not find this film as appealing if they are not a fan of scary films or horror films that they may find disturbing. People also may not enjoy the film if they are more a fan of comedy films etc as the film would not be genered as closely to that genre, so people may not enjoy the film as much. The audience would be drawn into our film through our exciting storyline that they would find interesting and hopefully a word of mouth would be generated attracting our audience. Also people may want to keep watching as the storyline intensifys as time goes on for example our short opening begins with the girl in the shower, then we see a man watching her, and then it leads to the big climatic ending when she is kidnapped. A big creation of suspense is created throughout and would attract the audience and also keep them intregued.
- 4. Attracting film aspects The audience would be asked to relate to leah and hopefully feel sorry for her in the situation she is in. The audience are only able to see as much as leah can see up untill the point when the persona changes and we witness a short clip of the stalker, breathing heavily outside the house. This has an intensifing effect on the audience as the suspense is built constantly and makes us fear as of what is to happen next. We collected ou audience feedback from peers and our target audience. We showed them our film opening and then recorded them both watching it and also recorded them answering several questions that we have set out for them, forinstance what did you find effective, what could have been better etc. There are several moments that I have gathered from our feedback that the audience found interesting and effective. Firstly was the the scene where the man is standing behind leah in the mirror yet she cannot see it and our responses told us that this scene was very effective. They also liked the scene where the persona is changed and we see the outside of the house from the stalkers perspective, creating suspense and signifying the tension.