Question 5-How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 5-How did you attract/address your audience?

Primary research was essential within our production, as we needed to identify what conventions and effects our target audience finds the most effective and what makes a thriller film successful.  I had done this through my blogs particularly through my post Target Audience Results - Miss Miller. It gave us an understand of the audience our thriller opening appealed to and what this audience like in a thriller film, this then allowed us to adapt and change our thriller opening in ways that appealed to our target audience of 13-16 year olds. However this was not the only blog post that helped us though production, many of the others where helpful as they gave us an understanding of the thriller conventions and how to use them effectively, making our thriller opening as successful as possible and therefore earn more marks.

Our research though our blogs also gave us the opportunity to look closely at other thriller openings and analyze how they where successful though their use of conventions. Through doing this I was able to take inspiration from other thriller films and apply them to my film. An example of me doing this was the blonde female victim within my thriller film which I took inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The lodger’ where blonde female victims play a pivotal role in the narrative and helped define the thriller convention of blonde female victims today, this is why I thought it essential to use within my thriller film. The inspirations I took from my research helped make my thriller film more successful through using more generic thriller conventions and the more conventional your thriller film the more successful it will be.

My primary and secondary research was essential to the planning of my thriller, as I was able to gain an early understanding of the thriller genre and its conventions. This allowed me to then begin the planning of my thriller film quite early on however as I progressed with my research I was able to change my plan in particular ways that suited my audience and the thriller genre the most. As was not stressed for time I was able to really focus in on my plan, making sure no problems would arise during production and that it would all run smoothly. This was planned through my Risk Assessment/filming schedule- Miss Georgiou where I outlined the risks during production and how to prevent them as well as my filming schedule where allocated times where given to certain scenes to guarantee we didn’t run out of time.