By Katrina Lee-Smith

The opening sequence is based in North

London, Enfield.

It should attract a working middle class as it

is based in a modern area where it disturbs

people’s daily routine as a girl is getting

chased by something, which is death.

I believe that my film will attract the classes

from B-E as it seems to be set in a location

that they would live in and go through

problems, such as crime and theft often.

However the plot in this opening would be

seen as unrealistic as death is trying to chase

a teenage girl when she is meant to be dead.

The camera works that we use to convey

death is quite scary and I highly doubt that

this situation would ever happen in modern

life.

The Mise-en-scene that is used in this makes it

seem even more unrealistic especially when the

glass smashes with strange smoke and

lightening appears.

On the other hand these visual effects with the

smoke, the shadow, lightening and glass

smashing enhances the audiences attraction

between the ages 15 onwards.

We aim to attract our target audience

globally and internationally addressing all

races, gender, regions, countries there are no

particular audiences we are trying to attract.

In order for our audience to attract our

audience Twentieth Century Fox is helping to

distribute our film globally so my partner

Fortune and I are able to draw in a bigger

audience and have universal viewers.

The age group that I am trying to attract is from the ages 15 onwards as the teenage society is where the word of mouth mostly comes from. Meaning that the specific age group is where most reviews will come from and be spread around.

Therefore our main priority is them as we would have to centre their interests and dislikes.

Majority of feedback comes from the younger generation as they can comment and give feedback on social networks, via Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites. Including texting, calling, what’s app and other mobile phone apps.

We must use various techniques to attract our

target audience by using different types of

technology and effects to draw them in.

The use of visual effects should attract our

audience to create tension and suspense during

the beginning. As the majority of teenagers

enjoy the suspense of horrors/thrillers.

This is because if the beginning starts off well

then the audience will continue to be interested

throughout the whole film, which is why we have

to ensure our opening is a success.

Our media product doesn’t really appeal to

either male or female its addressed to both sex.

As the opening will draw both genders to watch

it as they would enjoy the atmosphere.

However I believe that mainly males would want

to watch it as they can handle fear unlike the

majority of girls. Only a minority of girls can

handle the thrill of it and won’t get too scared.

On the other hand statistics show that the

number of females that watch thrillers nowadays

have increased and more males enjoy watching

action films.

In addition as the main protagonist is a

female an increase of the amount of females

will attend to watch it. Considering that in a

majority of films the main protagonist is

always a man, it makes a good change to see

a female in a high place.

However the female protagonist can be seen

as powerless and vulnerable as she is being

chased. This can be seen as a stereotype for

being a female protagonist as females are

always in need of protection and rescuing.

In the opening sequence you don’t see any racial stereotypes therefore there is no representation of racial conflict or predominantly white or black area. The location is just seen as a modern area in Enfield.

There is no racial abuse so no viewers will be lost because of this topic. Considering that the female protagonist is mixed ethnicity and the other character which is a dark shadow representing death can’t be seen as offensive towards any race.