This document discusses the target audience for a film noir opening sequence. It aims to attract 30-60 year old males by including elements stereotypically appealing to them like crime, violence, and a femme fatale character. Film noir tends to attract older, more mature audiences who appreciate the genre's depth and innuendos. The sequence also takes inspiration from similar films like The Big Combo that feature a detective investigating a crime.

1. OUR TARGET AUDIENCE
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2. The typical film noir is usually a hard boiled detective based
story where there is a lot of crime based content. This
would be more appealing to males stereotypically as it
contains violence, scenes of a sexual nature and crime. Our
target audience is typically males as we have focused on
these three features and made it a priority that there is
femme fatale to attract male attention.
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3. AGE
Film noir is often depicted as an ‘artsy’ genre due to the depth of cinematography.
The audience tend to be more of a mature, older group of people due to the
amount of innuendos used during dialogue that might not be grasped by less mature
people. This in mind, the age we decided to target was 30-60 year olds (middle aged
men).

4. WHAT OTHER FILMS ARE
SIMILAR TO OUR
SEQUENCE AND WHO
DO THEY APPEAL TO?

5.  Our sequence has the main theme of the hard
boiled detective investigating a crime, this is also the
main theme of many film noir films due to it being
a key convention, The Big Combo (1955) has a
similar plot to our sequence mainly because of one
of the main themes being the hard boiled detective
trying to investigate a crime, it also uses the femme
fatal factor which is also used in our sequence , the
big combo mainly appeals to the male section of the
audience , mainly because of the crime factor that
is shown in the film and the use of the femme fatal
to attract more men , the age range of this film
ranges from 30-60 year olds , this is because film
noir films are genuinely sophisticated films with a
intriguing plot.

6. HOW DID WE
ATTRACT/ADDRESS
YOUR AUDIENCE?

7.  Because our target audience was 30-60 year old males ( middle age men ) , we decided
to use some of the more well known classic factors of film noir in our sequence , we used
the theme of crime / murder because we knew that this theme was one of the main
contributing factors that the male audience enjoy , we also used a small chase scene to add a
small piece of action which appeals towards the male side of the audience , the use of close
up shots on the killer emphasizes the since of danger which links in well with the action ,
we also used the theme of mystery which will keep the audience intrigued and interested in
what happens next , we did this at the end of the chase scene between ellie and the killer ,
the sense of mystery was created by the screen cutting to black (post production), during
the detective and informer scene a series of point of view shots combined with the shot
reverse shot technique to show the audience the point of perspective of both the detective
and the informer during the exchange scene ,some match on action shots are also used on
the money and the information to show the audience that these objects are the main point
of focus.

8. AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
 We received feedback and productive criticism from our audience
and we were pleased with the positive feedback and we used this
effectively to improve our final media product ( opening sequence) ,
we also managed to correct any errors that were pointed out by the
audience ,overall we were pleased with our final sequence .