How did you attract/address your audience?

Characters

I think the audience may find the action between characters (during stalking scene) as it’s the climax of the film. With our film includes both genders I think it could attract the audience of a different gender because actor/actress might appear attractive to a certain watcher.

As our target audience is for teens-young adults the audience will be able to relate our main character (Tabitha) as she’s round the same age with the same hobbies e.g. partying, drinking.

Setting

We chose to film our first shots in a studio because if offered a pitch black surrounding with a spotlight just on our protagonist. This made our scene the darkest it could be and really meant we could experiment with light to create the effect that we wanted.

The later scenes were shot in a house because the idea was to create a party scene and using somebody’s house was the most obvious location as this is where our audience would associate parties with. It was also important that we shot this footage at night as we wanted our audience to sense contrast between the bright party atmosphere and the cold and dark intimidating street where a sense of tension and drama was our goal.

Soundtrack

The reason behind our soundtrack was to create the atmosphere. When something bad was going to happen we placed eerie sounds and music to heighten the tension. This involved high pitched and loud sudden noise. This kind of music flowed in with the code and convention of our genera as audience’s expected to hear this kind of music. This contrasts against the loud fast tempo music of the party scene which we then muffled in order to give the audience a sense of how our protagonist would be feeling in her head after being drugged.

TitlesWhen coming to our titles I wanted our text to be as sharp as possible nothing to pretty or rounded something with a sharpness to the lettering, keeping the colouring to a black and white theme with the only other colour being red to connote blood. This was because we wanted it to match the genre and not loose the element of thriller.

The transitions of credit names came up in ‘blur’ this also connoted the feeling of loosing sight after being drugged.

Cinematography

We used industry standard shot expected of a film.

e.g.

• Medium

• Extreme close up

• Panning shots

• Blur to focus for the effect of being drugged.