Thriller evaluation Q.5

Q.5 How did you attract/address your audience?

To attract and address our audience the questionnaire and the vox pop we did helped significantly. They helped us develop our thriller into one that was suited to the audience more in terms of what they expected. The responses gave us good ideas into what the audience would like to see in our thriller. One questionnaire was through written answers and the vox pop was through video responses. This was so that we could get both verbally and physically views on the thriller genre and our thriller itself. If we did not do a questionnaire then we may have been targeting the wrong type of audience for our thriller decreasing the impact of our opening. In the vox pop video the people we asked said that in a thriller film they expected a hero and villain. They also expected a thriller to be dark, mysterious and creepy. Due to the responses we got we decided to make our thriller a psychological one due to the response we got from our audience research. This is because when we looked at one of our questionnaire’s we found out that the most popular sub genre was the Psychological one. Here is a pie chart below to show the results from this particular question.

The video of our vox pop video is shown below and also includes a little intro into what we as a group are going to do in terms of roles and what is going to happen in our thriller in terms of attracting our audience.

The BBFC guidelines will affect our thriller as we will need to ensure that our thriller suits the age category that we have chosen. For example we have to keep to the guidelines of the BBFC website for the 15 age category. The official BBFC guidelines are shown below.

15=Suitable for only 15 and over people

(Films under this category can contain adult themes, hard drugs, strong language and one use of very strong language, moderate-strong violence/sex references, and undetailed sex activity.)
Thriller films are usually rated 15 and above due to the content involved. They usually contain violence, language and more that would be too bad for under 15’s to watch.

Adding a good music soundtrack was a good feature to our Thriller which attracted the audience because it suited the Thriller genre and the opening very well. There were 4 soundtracks of the fire burning, the Flashback sound, the main soundtrack and the credits soundtrack. These soundtracks are shown below.

To attract our audience we used very specific camera shots that our audience wanted to see due to the responses from our questionnaires. For example we used the close up shot a lot to show the fine attention to detail. Whether it be somebody burning a piece of paper or the expression on someone’s face in our thriller.

With the narrative of our thriller we made sure that we did not include too much because we did not want to destroy the purpose of the plot. Keeping the opening quite and eery ensured that the audience would be attracted to our thriller and will watch intently to see what happens next. The only narrative we used was a short and sharp response from one of the characters which was not enough to interrupt the thrillers pattern.

The editing involved in our thriller would attract our target audience because we edited the thriller so that it was free flowing and all moved smoothly. The only real purposeful jumps in the thriller were the flashbacks as flashbacks are supposed to be jumpy and unnatural by surprising the audience. The thriller needs to be edited well in order to make the thriller creepy and mysterious.

The mise-en-scene in our thriller is very relevant to the thriller genre. This is because we have not included anything into our thriller that you would not expect in typical thriller film. For example below is a still of someone digging a hole with a shovel in our thriller. This is suitable to the thriller genre as they can sometimes be used as weapons and more in other thriller films I have seen. This will attract the audience as they would like to see the typical and conventional things seen in the thriller genre.

Our mise-en-scene location is also very suitable to the thriller genre and will attract the audience because it is old and run down which makes it a weird setting for a thriller. If the location we choose looked nice and had a happy feel about the place then our audience would not be impressed with our thriller as it has not stuck to the key conventions that are vital in a thriller film.