We attracted our audience by appealing to their normal standards of thriller films. In our film we address the conventions of thrillers, such as the suspense we created in our film opening, this would appeal to our audience because it is what they are familiar with in a thriller film. As an example, I have inserted a screen capture of one of the scenes in our film, in this scene our student, Luke, starts breathing deeply while clutching his head, this builds suspense in our scene as our audience do not know what is going to happen and as his breathing increases the suspense rises.
We also attracted them by using a cliff hanger in our opening, this draws the audiences attention by making them wonder whats about to happen, this is done in other thriller films, the most popular being The Sixth Sense.
We also attracted our audience by using elements of aggressive and violent behavior which usually go hand in hand with thrillers, for example, here is a screen capture from our film opening of Mr Frost being aggressive towards our student.
We knew how to target our audience because of statistics from a popular website called Pearl and Dean, which display film statistics, such as, the gender who viewed it most, the age who viewed it most and the class who viewed it most, for example, one of the thriller films we chose to target ourselves around was The Dark Knight, which has basically the same ratings as we hope ours would.
We also attracted them by using a cliff hanger in our opening, this draws the audiences attention by making them wonder whats about to happen, this is done in other thriller films, the most popular being The Sixth Sense.
We also attracted our audience by using elements of aggressive and violent behavior which usually go hand in hand with thrillers, for example, here is a screen capture from our film opening of Mr Frost being aggressive towards our student.
We knew how to target our audience because of statistics from a popular website called Pearl and Dean, which display film statistics, such as, the gender who viewed it most, the age who viewed it most and the class who viewed it most, for example, one of the thriller films we chose to target ourselves around was The Dark Knight, which has basically the same ratings as we hope ours would.
With this information, we found that the most likely people to watch a thriller were males aged 15 - 24, which is why we chose to target that specific age and gender for our film.
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