How did you attract/address your audience?

We made the opening appeal to our audience by using actors of a similar age and having the sub-genre as a psychological thriller.  By doing this the audience will be able to relate to the actors and could also share similar interests. The clothing that the characters wear is also very young and modern in style. By looking at the results from the questionnaires it states that people of the age 10-20 prefer psychological thrillers which went well with our idea. We didn’t give the questionnaires to anybody under the age of 15 because after looking back at the BBFC website at their classifications on film ratings it wouldn’t be suitable for people under the age of 15 to watch thrillers due to the content in them, especially when it comes to psychological thrillers. The audience prefer a slow paced music so we used a slow paced music to help us with the timing of our thriller opening as fast editing wouldn’t have flowed well with the slow music. The audience also stated that they expected to see a lot of extreme close ups and pans.

The feedback that we received for our thriller opening was very positive and some people offered us some improvements that we could have made. After putting the video onto Facebook people commented on it with their feedback;

“I like it, well done :) the mood of it is good and makes you wanna find out what happened. Don't get too carried away with different transitions though, simple is best. Also, one of the first things I learned was to cut to the beat of the music. For instance when you see the body and cut to the close-up of you, if you cut it half a second earlier on that last high pitched beat, your reaction may be more effective. Its excellent though, keep it up!” This was a very positive comment as this was somebody that I know of that studied Media at university, so reading this comment gave us a good thought process as to how we would improve it if we did it again.
Some comments weren’t as detailed as this one but still gave us some positive feedback;

“Looks cool, tension is nicely kept and didn’t stray from the story, well done :)” and “I thought this was very good. Seamless between shots, good build up, good dramatic effects, was pretty creative too :) effort! :)”

We also did a video interview with two other students:

These comments were done from people from the age of 15 and above.