1. Question 5 - How did you attract/address your target audience?
We kept the lighting to quite a dark
contrast only because it really sets the
scene for a thriller; realistically it
makes it scarier cause the audience
All these things like the isn’t entirely sure on what’s going on. We knew based on our
objects used or the setting questionnaire survey that
and lighting in where we our teenage target
filmed it made the video audience enjoys a tension
coming across as slightly rising thriller hence why
dogey or scary which is we used a gun as part of
good for our teenage our important objects
target audience. because it kills someone.
Mis – en – scene
We made our setting
The metallic suitcase was a outside in the woodsso it
very stereotypical object to creates a lot of shadow
have in a thriller cause it effects with the trees,
normally holds something Another important object we used in bush’s or general objects
important, even though the the final task was the suitcase. It was to make it scarier/chilling.
audience couldn’t see inside, right in the center of the shot at the
the characters reaction to beginning to make it important and
what was inside seemed scary. remained with a character throughout
the video.
Based on my questionnaire, which
was targeted at the teenage
audience, we had to put a
suspension rising soundtrack As for the music, it was a
throughout of which the audience type of on – going music
Another part of the video wouldn’t get board of, so we did.
whereby we completely whereby it wouldn’t stop
stopped the music was unless an important sound
when one of the was put in before, like the
characters got killed so it gunshot to kill a certain
allows the audience to pay character in the beginning.
more attention and
creates a sense of unease. Music/sound
Our target audience prefers
All in all, teenagers to have a thriller movie that
prefer to have covers all the elements like
ongoing, fast pace scary or action clips, hence
music, which cuts out why we used a loud gunshot
a few times for the sound to grab their
more important Our group as a whole decided to use attention as it clearly
sounds or clips, as it’s a certain sound cutting technique indicates that someone was
more of a that has been used in thriller films shot or killed.
stereotypical, general before. For example at the end of
thriller. the introduction, the music suddenly
cut it’s self out when the “Agent”
walked past the bad guy before he
was court – cliffhanger.