This is our typical audience member - young adults between the ages of sixteen and their late twenties.
This picture shows a picture of our target audience which includes Alex on the far left and his girlfriend, Priya, in the middle with their group of friends - with whom they all attend university.
On the far left is Alex, he's twenty six and is from Manchester. He is currently studying to become a veterinarian after taking a few years off after sixth form to go travelling across the Far East - an experience he thoroughly enjoyed and will forever cherish. Despite his studious career path, Alex enjoys a mixture of comedies and thriller/horror films and TV shows to help him relieve the pressure of Uni life. Parks and Recreation and The Walking Dead are his two favourite shows which he rewatches constantly on Netflix; whilst his girlfriend can't bear to stomach the goriness of The Walking Dead - Alex can happily enjoy the hacking of zombies any time of day. His favourite films include; Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, The A-Team, The Last Airbender, The Shining, The Hangover trilogy and The Conjuring.
After viewing our film opening, he said; 'I enjoyed the suspense of not revealing who the villain was until the end; it keeps you wondering who it is and what they will do. I really want to watch the rest of the film! Will it follow on after this? Or jump back in time to explain what's happened? Please tell me!'
Priya in the middle wearing a blue vest, is twenty two and from Buckinghamshire. She is currently studying to become a corporate lawyer which she will hopefully achieve by the age of thirty. Priya enjoys psychological, science fiction, thriller and superhero films; however despite this her favourite TV shows include; American Horror Story, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Sherlock. Her favourite films include; Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar, Gone Girl, The Godfather trilogy, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Jaws.
After watching our film opening, she said, 'I loved the suspenseful music that played throughout the buildup to the reveal of the villain - it really helped increase the paranoia felt and I felt like I was the main character, for a moment then! Really good camera angles too, some I haven't seen before.'
Alex said that he enjoyed the ending, which linked back to our questionnaire of the majority of our target audience preferring cliffhangers at the end of an film opening to make them want to watch more.
After viewing our film opening, he said; 'I enjoyed the suspense of not revealing who the villain was until the end; it keeps you wondering who it is and what they will do. I really want to watch the rest of the film! Will it follow on after this? Or jump back in time to explain what's happened? Please tell me!'
Priya in the middle wearing a blue vest, is twenty two and from Buckinghamshire. She is currently studying to become a corporate lawyer which she will hopefully achieve by the age of thirty. Priya enjoys psychological, science fiction, thriller and superhero films; however despite this her favourite TV shows include; American Horror Story, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Sherlock. Her favourite films include; Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar, Gone Girl, The Godfather trilogy, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Jaws.
After watching our film opening, she said, 'I loved the suspenseful music that played throughout the buildup to the reveal of the villain - it really helped increase the paranoia felt and I felt like I was the main character, for a moment then! Really good camera angles too, some I haven't seen before.' Alex said that he enjoyed the ending, which linked back to our questionnaire of the majority of our target audience preferring cliffhangers at the end of an film opening to make them want to watch more.
I think our film opening successfully reflected the opinions of our target audience as we tried to include a lot of things that they said they enjoyed in films, in our opening. I think we could have perhaps had a second character so that we could include diversity of social groups - however the storyline worked better with the same person playing both the protagonist and antagonist.
The beginning of the psychological thriller film, Memento, begins using reverse chronology where the action starts from one moment usually one that is shocking and reverses back in time to show how it happened - this is similar to our film, expect we never showed the reverse aspect, but this would be something we'd go on to show.
This targets our audience, because in the questionnaire, a lot said that they prefer when less information is given at the beginning so that they can try to figure it out as they go along which adds to the tension and fear.
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