We attracted our audience by linking the film to the popular Batman comic book universe and movies like The Dark Knight, which would appeal to existing fans. Using the mysterious Court of Owls villain that is unknown outside the comics also brought in new fans. Our target male audience was attracted by the inclusion of gun violence. Additionally, using teenage actors for the lead roles made the audience able to relate to the teenage characters. Audience feedback confirmed that these elements, particularly a tense phone call scene similar to one in Taken, helped engage viewers as intended.

1. Question 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
YOU MUST – discuss how the mise-en-scene should be appealing to your target
audience
YOU SHOULD –discuss whatyour audience feedback reveals – did your
decisions help the audience to engage as you wanted?
YOU COULD – discuss how variouselements of narrative theory have informed
the decisions you have taken in the construction of your sequence
We attracted our audience by focusing on the link to the comic book universe
and the Batman movies. I think that these links will establish a big fan baseto
the movie as the success thatthe Dark Knightfilms was incredible so I believe
that the same audience will go to our film. Also, as the Courtof Owls is
unheard to anyoneoutside of the comic universe it will bring somenew fans to
the series.
I think that the use of the gun also helped as it helps portray a sense of
violence to the film, attracting our male audience. We also attracted our
audience by using the teenage actors; this made the audience feel connected
to the characters as it brings an interesting twistonto teenage life. The use of
the police badge was to highlight that the character has more about him and
as it says ‘specialpolice’ it shows why the police officer is a teenager.
The audience feedback we got reveals that we achieved in attracting our target
audience. They said that it was the use of the phone call that really effected
them as it is a tense scene. I believe that people linked this sceneto the
famous Taken scene.