5. How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience by making our Thriller opening a crime-thriller; this would attract our target audience of people aged 16-25, who enjoyed crime-thrillers. We focused all the attention of the audience on the villain, in order to show where he killed the victims, but not show how or whether he did kill them. We did show the villain killing one of the victims but this was only two of the four. We did this so that it would ask questions about what happened to the other two, whether they will be found later in the film, whether they will be dead or alive. Or whether they will not be found and we have to create our own fate for them. This would attract people who like to see the crimes from the villain’s perspective and how he evades the police. A lot of people would rather see crime-thrillers this way because you don’t have to work things out for yourself but its more of a case of when, where and how he is going to be caught. Or if he is going to get away with it. Thus creating a kind of dramatic irony. Because the audience know what is happening but none of the main characters know what is going on, thus creating dramatic irony. We used certain camera shots, such as establishing shots to show things like time passing, but also the contrast between the calmness in the establishing shots and the mayhem that was happening in the action shots contrasted really well because we brought mayhem to a calm place and therefore made a really effective Thriller opening. This attracted our audience because it created a sense of disturbance, this therefore would have drawn in our audience because this made them ask questions about ‘Why is this happening?’ And ‘what is going to happen?’ Therefore persuading them to carry on watching the movie to find out what will happen later.