Q5: How did you attract/address your audience? (Joel Ryan)

Q5: How did you attract and address your audience?

In film openings, their are certain things which will attract an audience especially when you are making a thriller film opening. So when we produce our thriller opening we had to pay special attention to the Mise en Scene, Storyline, Genre, Location and Sound. When making the film we channeled a lot of energy into creating a filming location which had a lot going on in the Mise En Scene, because our idea was quite simple to carry out in terms of filming. Our second biggest thing we were using to attract the audience was sound. We knew that the right soundtrack would enhance our film track drastically.

We managed to reach our audience by adding the elements which attracted them into our film opening.This included things like the film title, and the storyline. Most people prefer a film opening to intrigue them and directors do this by limiting the amount of information the give away in the opening minutes of the film. This is exactly what we did. 

Below are some interviews I conducted asking a couple people around college about what interests them about thriller films:

As you can see I showed some people our film opening and decided to interview them: 

• Gina: She said that she liked the way we did not give away too much information in the opening because it attracted her and made her want to watch more. This corresponds with what I said about the directors thoughts

• Robert: He said that he liked thriller films because of the element of suspense.  

 To conclude we aimed to attract our target audience by implementing the main things thriller films use for example, suspense, tensions and quick pace filming.