2. ATTRACTING OUR TARGET AUDIENCE
In the opening of our film we wanted to entice and intrigue the audience
straight away and not let them get bored, we did this by making sure the
content was appealing to our target audience which was teenagers
primarily. To do this we tried to include things such as funny lines from the
characters and comedic mise en scene such as the clothing and stances of
the different characters. We wanted to make sure that the content we
made was aimed at the target audience we wanted to attract.
In a film opening in order to attract the audiences attention you have to
start with something that will make the audience want to stay for the rest of
the film, if the opening starts boring chances are the audience will be
switched off for the rest of the film. To do this we started with just a voiceover
to build suspense, as it is a comedy to break the suspense we introduced my
character first, up pops a random nerdy funny guy who makes the audience
laugh and want to know more about his story throughout the film.
3. COMEDY LOVING AUDIENCES
As we did a comedy film opening our target audience is for people
that like the comedy genre the most, this means we used different
techniques we learnt from actual comedy films in order to enhance
our own film opening for the audience, we did things like corny and
cheesy comedic punchlines, different camera angles for different
scenarios (e.g. close up to show the characters emotion). We also
tried to follow the rule in comedy where the characters are really
over the top and exaggerated characters in order to create more
comedic scenes for the audience
One thing that makes comedy films so popular are the inclusion of
already well known actors, this means the audience know that the
film will be funny before they even watch it because of the actors.
Obviously we couldn’t get famous actors in our film opening but that
is another way to attract an audience for a film.
