Hanadi Afendi Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience by making sure there is enough audience pleasure by making our thriller by using symbolic objects we could keep the audience on their toes feeling of suspense and they never know when something’s going to happen as it builds up suspense. An example of this would be looking at all the pictures hanging on the line. This makes the audience wonder who these people are or is it the actual character as we have hidden her identity.

Firstly we had to make sure that our film was along the guidelines of a rated 15 movie. From this link you can see the research we have done. This was to ensure we did not have anything inappropriate and goes against these strict rules.

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We could have improved our questionnaire by making sure we know what the audience would like to see in a thriller opening as this would make things easier and more appealing to the same audience.

The protagonist shown in our opening is a stereotypical attractive female teenager, this helps the target audience to feel and be able to understand the protagonist shown in the film. We have used one of our members in the group ‘Flora Clarke’ this is because she fits the criteria well and is also very reliable as we would be able to film when we are all available and during lesson times. We have also put up a timetable of when we are all free and available to film http://1212group12012.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/free-periods.htmlto help achieve this. All the girls shown throughout the film (In the scrap book or in the racks or hanging up on the line) are all eye-catching teenagers who have this stereotypical look (long hair nice eyes petite figure) by this we were able to gain the male audience as well as gaining the female audience to be able to look at her and compare themselves to her.

From our audience research we have realised that our audience had quite similar things in common. Examples of these would be:

Genre: the majority of the answers we have collected from the questionnaires resulted that the females mostly liked going out shopping and buying new makeup products. This is then shown through the use of makeup on the character. This can appeal to the audience as these are the kind of things that keep them engaged

Sounds: As our theme is quite girlie and the character is effected by her past and her mother who she only remembers whilst she was young, due to killing her because she envied her beauty. The jewellery box can suggest and be a reminder as well as giving the audience a hint that there’s something about her past and that she holds on too. This gives a creepy feel especially including the sound of the gloves being put on which can give off the impression of a disturbed mind and that something is wrong this makes the audience intrigued.Through our target audience we can see that our audience like main stream music, so we have also used the music to help reach the target audience as most girls when they were younger had a jewellery box that had a similar instrumental to the one being played in our opening. Although this is  not very mainstream everyone has heard of such sounds as 

its very common.

Visual styles: Through our editing during post production we had changed the speed and flipped our clips in reverse so that we had no continuity problems.

Variety of shots used: The use of point of view shots can appeal to the audience as they are seeing things from the protagonist point of view. So they also have an insight of the life the character is living. The use of shots are not however lengthy as this could be quite boring and divert the attention of the audience away. Our aim is to keep them focused so they can feel the real tension and suspense throughout. However we have managed to keep the shots long enough for the audience to remember the objects shown and emphasise the detail and the importance of these objects. The other shots such as low angle high angle and midshot close ups and extreme close ups can keep the audience attention so that they see and are aware of everything that is going on.

Ethnicity: Again from our audience research we have found out that the demographic of the audience was mainly White/British females. So we have used pictures of white females throughout the opening on the racks, on the line hanging, as the character and in the scrap book.