Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

 The way we attracted out target audience was to create a narrative that appealed to both audiences. By this we aimed to provide a view from both genders but also created out product by giving the audience a chance to decide who they want to 'defend' or encourage throughout. As well as this we also tried to follow the common conventions of thriller genre to keep our audience drawn in but also tried to break the boundaries and make our product more unique by making the protagonist seem braver and smarter than the stereotypical female protagonist. 

 As from the research, we also wanted to make our product so that the audience can be in the situation of the victim or antagonist to make them feel part of the film. To achieve this, we used camera angles such as close ups to reveal the true feelings and emotions of the character so that the audience could feel these emotions to.

As well as reaction shots, as i mentioned before we wanted the audience to feel like part of our film so we included match on action and tracking shots to express and help create this reality. In regards to editing, i wanted to follow the forms and conventions of thriller which i tried to achieve for the audience by adding a washed out-dirty filter over most of the shots to add suspense. 



The mise-en-scene in the beginning of our opening sequence really helps draw in the audience these shots are combined with a voice over to really help focus the audience and engage them with the storyline of our film.

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