The document discusses how the filmmakers addressed their audience and created tension and mystery. They used a female main character as the villain to subvert expectations that the villain would be male. Both key scenes took place in middle-class locations, like a house and coffee shop, to make the audience feel they could relate to the settings. In the house scene, low lighting and contrast created a dark and scary atmosphere, while the well-lit coffee shop provided relief but also intrigue by showing the villain in public. A kitchen knife rather than a gun was used as the weapon to make the killing of a child seem more realistic given the suburban setting.

1. How did you
attract/address your
audience?

2. Main character
• We have addressed our audience by using a woman as the main character. In
thriller films we researched; the villain was a man on most occasions, therefore
we thought that using a woman would create an Enigma code. This would
make the audience try and solve mysteries during the film and try to find out
who the villain is. The audience would stereotype men as the villain than
women to be villains. The target audience are likely to be middle class, and that
was reflected at the making of the film, because we made the main character
who is the villain a middle class and made the villain go to a middle class
coffee shop. This made the audience relate to the film because the normality of
the mood is something they live in, like the coffee shop.

3. Location
• In films we researched the codes and conventions of a thriller scene is usually
dark and gloomy.
• There were two main scenes in our film; the first was at the house which is in
the kitchen where the villain picks up the knife and going up the attic to kill the
child and the other one is at the coffee shop where she has a drink, and reads
the paper where it says there is a child missing in Woodley. In the kitchen we
lowered the contrast and bighting to make it look dark and scary. This makes
audience feel scared because they cant really see what is going on and that
creates a sense that something might jump in the scene to thrill them. The
coffee shop scene was filmed on a sunny day; this made the audience relax
from the flashback scene. This also created an enigma because the audience
saw the villain pick the knife up and then saw her like an average person at a
coffee shop. Both locations are owned by middle class people in which the
house is owned by the villain, and the coffee shop is targeted at middle class
people.

4. Props and lighting
• In thriller films we researched a gun was used more than a kitchen
knife. A knife is a less powerful weapon to use. I think we used a knife
because it would look more realistic to kill a child with a knife than a
gun in a sub-urban area.