Jonah - Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

[Liam Neeson in Taken]

• Without addressing an audience of some sort a film is not going go succeed, so for my thriller i tried to attract my target audience by making it exciting and appealing to that age group. The aim for any successful thriller is come to capture the audience and have them on the edge of their seats and dying to find out what happens next, i tried to achieve this in my thriller.
• As i have found that the majority audience that watches psychological thrillers are males. Making my thriller appealing to men is priority, to some extent i have done this. With a climax/death within the first 2 minutes of the film its likely to grab the attention of the audience regardless if they are male or female because with the use of sound and editing the death is very exciting and 'Thrilling' but maybe more appealing to men as its high action and suspense. I used minimalist Non-Diegetic sound to build up to the climax and create tension and with the use of editing, cutting away from the action, it kept the audience in suspense creating further tension until the climax grabbing the audience and pulling them in within the first two minutes of the film. 
• This will appeal to the younger bracket of males in my target audience most as statistically they watch the most horror and thriller movies and enjoy the fright.
• Because i was limited to a short deadline and limited length video it was critical to engage the audience as quickly as possible. By using stereotypes this helps the audience identify the protagonist and antagonist quickly, so by having the male as the antagonist audiences can quickly identify him as being the 'bad guy' and begin to analysis him as a character.
• To attract the female audience i tried to make the main female character identifiable to the female audience by having her act out a regular routine that they would go through everyday, which adds to realism and make the thriller more 'scary' for that audience because in their minds this event could actually happen as the character may reflect their own life's.

Use of camera

• By having the camera moving as much as possible during the shoots with the antagonist creates a more exciting scene, camera techniques i used are as listed: 
• Pan
• Tilt
• Focus pulling
• dolly pan
• Obviously i didn't use many camera movements but that was all that was required, and having to many gimmicky camera techniques may have detracted from what was actually happening on screen and the audience may lose track of the story.

Mise en scene

• Both main character are dressed very well and look appealing which audiences will be attracted by, as to being dressed poorly which may not have been as attractive.

Sound

• Sound is very important in my thriller as the Non-Diegetic soundtrack build suspense and tension throughout the clip. Without the soundtrack there the audience would have been lost and put off as they would not  understand or expect a climax to happen soon.
• Just before the female character is killed i added a Non-Diegetic sound of violins slowly building until the spade comes down and the violins explode with sound making for an exciting climax after all the tension had built. This attracted audiences as they would expect an exciting story and something that would get them on the edge of their seats.