How did you attract/address your audience ?
Our target audience is females between the ages 15-19 and adult parents. Throughout we used many different features within our mise en scene, camera angles, sound and effects to appeal to our target audience and make sure that they would either be attracted to the film, or be scared by the film which is the ultimate goal of many thriller films.
Firstly to try and appeal to our target audience we used very tense music and sharp sounds to let them know when something scary or unexpected was going to happen. We tried to appeal to our older audience through this by adding in a very similar sound to the film Jaws, this film has very distinctive music when the shark is sort me the scene of which we used very similar music to, we did this to appeal to them because as Jaws is an older film they are more likely to be aware of the similarity compared to our young audience. So by using this it allowed them to be aware of the possible scary scene about to happen as they used it in that way for the film Jaws. For the younger audience we wanted the film to be more shocking and scary for them so we started the opening with very happy girly music that takes the idea away that the film is a thriller. We did this so that the whole situation of an intruder breaking into the house would be completely suprising for our teenage audience because many thrillers such as Seven start with creepy or sinister music, but as ours started in an opposite way we thought it would create the fear we want the audience to feel.
Secondly to appeal to our audience we used camera shots that show them very clearly what they need to be focusing on. In some thrillers or films in general it can be unclear to the audience what they should be looking st in the scene so we wanted to keep them very simple and close shots. This relates to our audience because by using close up shots it allows for them to connect with the victim a lot more because you can see her emotions and how scared she is which for the teenage audience could reflect on them because they could start to put themselves in that situation which is where the relationship betweeen victim and audience is so important because it allows for them to connect and deem the same emotions that they are feeling.
We wanted this thriller to be very realistic so we made sure that our victim would act in the most believable way, so as we live in a very technologically driven society we wanted to make sure that our victim was representing this modern behavior, this is why we made sure that she was using her phone and laptop from the very beginning of the opening. By getting her to talk to her friend whilst she was aware the intruder was in the house is a very high expectation of most teenagers from older people. Which is why we wanted to use it because it relates to both the teenagers and the adults, the teenagers because they would be the one doing this act, and the adults because these are the people with the expectations of their children to act in this way.
Our main character, the victim, was inspired by the victim in the film The Call because she as well as Isobel was a female teenager and we wanted to use her as the inspiration as oppose to a better known female victim like the daughter in Taken because she is far more relatable for many teenagers because she was simply home alone while her parents were out, whereas Kim in Taken had a special agent as a father so the way she would have behaved would be very different to the way that Leah behaved in The Call because she was just a normal girl.
Our target audience is females between the ages 15-19 and adult parents. Throughout we used many different features within our mise en scene, camera angles, sound and effects to appeal to our target audience and make sure that they would either be attracted to the film, or be scared by the film which is the ultimate goal of many thriller films.
Firstly to try and appeal to our target audience we used very tense music and sharp sounds to let them know when something scary or unexpected was going to happen. We tried to appeal to our older audience through this by adding in a very similar sound to the film Jaws, this film has very distinctive music when the shark is sort me the scene of which we used very similar music to, we did this to appeal to them because as Jaws is an older film they are more likely to be aware of the similarity compared to our young audience. So by using this it allowed them to be aware of the possible scary scene about to happen as they used it in that way for the film Jaws. For the younger audience we wanted the film to be more shocking and scary for them so we started the opening with very happy girly music that takes the idea away that the film is a thriller. We did this so that the whole situation of an intruder breaking into the house would be completely suprising for our teenage audience because many thrillers such as Seven start with creepy or sinister music, but as ours started in an opposite way we thought it would create the fear we want the audience to feel.
Secondly to appeal to our audience we used camera shots that show them very clearly what they need to be focusing on. In some thrillers or films in general it can be unclear to the audience what they should be looking st in the scene so we wanted to keep them very simple and close shots. This relates to our audience because by using close up shots it allows for them to connect with the victim a lot more because you can see her emotions and how scared she is which for the teenage audience could reflect on them because they could start to put themselves in that situation which is where the relationship betweeen victim and audience is so important because it allows for them to connect and deem the same emotions that they are feeling.
We wanted this thriller to be very realistic so we made sure that our victim would act in the most believable way, so as we live in a very technologically driven society we wanted to make sure that our victim was representing this modern behavior, this is why we made sure that she was using her phone and laptop from the very beginning of the opening. By getting her to talk to her friend whilst she was aware the intruder was in the house is a very high expectation of most teenagers from older people. Which is why we wanted to use it because it relates to both the teenagers and the adults, the teenagers because they would be the one doing this act, and the adults because these are the people with the expectations of their children to act in this way.
Our main character, the victim, was inspired by the victim in the film The Call because she as well as Isobel was a female teenager and we wanted to use her as the inspiration as oppose to a better known female victim like the daughter in Taken because she is far more relatable for many teenagers because she was simply home alone while her parents were out, whereas Kim in Taken had a special agent as a father so the way she would have behaved would be very different to the way that Leah behaved in The Call because she was just a normal girl.
No comments:
Post a Comment