Evaluation Question 5

5) How did you attract/address your audience?

I think I have reached my target audience, this is because all of my "test" audience were quite pleased with it and wanted to see more. Here are some of the feedback I got:

"I think it was really tense and capturing. It could have been quicker but overall it was good." - Jonathan Marwick

"I would love to see the rest of it!" - Stacy Daniel

I think they reacted this way because of how it was started and ended in the opening thriller. They immediately caught attention of the screen when the piano started and found that interesting, I think in a way it just separated the opening logos to the actual footage and opening credits.

I thought that the most important part of my production had to be the music as this was the part that would keep the audience's attention, at that time I decided not to have any dialogue because my research showed that in thriller film openings there wasn't any dialogue. The music played a big part in the opening.

I think my thriller was quite technical in terms of shots chosen and the way that the opening represented itself, in terms of organisation of the opening it was "good, nothing to criticize" (- Raj Patel) about it.

The less successful parts of my opening thriller were that there were some shots felt too long, for example when he was walking down towards the bridge and there were some that could have been snappier, like for instance when the character came up to the camera out of breath, these also the part that could have been improved.

What I also did was that I made the night shot in a letter-box format and the day shot in full day. None my of audience members noticed this, but I did this effect to show that there was a change of time and that the night time was insignificant at that moment, and the day shot was full screen as this would be important.

I also did a "pan" of the city road to show show it is, I did this because my research showed this was quite relevant to what I had to do and that this would  set the dynamics of what the audience should expect. By doing this you would get a better positive vibe and understanding of the film when it starts the story.