5)- How did you attract/address your audience?
I used a variety of methods to address my audience which lead to my primary and secondary research I gathered. The primary research I collected was essential to my production as it gave me an insight of what my audience looked for within a thriller in person. The methods I conducted to gain the results were through a questionnaire that I asked my target audience and Vox Pops; an act of filming an interview with members of public through a media device. Both tasks were very interesting and helpful as it allowed me to see what my target audience really thought about what they wanted in a thriller face to face. Also, they could elaborate more with the Vox Pops making my research more valid and reliable to refer to.
The research I carried out to create my thriller film was analysis's of thriller films on my blog, film certificates, narrative theory and the questionnaires.
Firstly, I researched into the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) which is an independent, non governmental body that classifies cinema films and videos/DVDs. In the research I learned the different types of age certificates for films and what their guidelines were. What I found through this was that thriller films were mostly classified as a 15. This was because unlike horrors that are rated 18 and start their movies with either strong violence, strong adult themes or extreme gore.This was not the aim for thrillers as they're about creating suspense instead of making the audience feel scared of their being.
Secondly, I made a series of blogposts showing the different types of ways thrillers were conventional in each micro element to gain more in depth understanding of the genre. For example, I had a blogpost of an analysis of the ways sound was conventional to a thriller in the film The shining.
Another, source of research I carried out was the different types of narrative theories,these included Propp, Todorov and Aristole. After learning about the different theories, I decided that my narrative suited the Aristotle theory like most thrillers do because It included an incident, dramatic question, character goal, protagonist and antagonist, a resolution and elements of sympathy and empathy.
The research was helpful especially when planning my thriller opening as it gave me more of an understanding of the genre and ideas on what to include in my thriller. An example of a inspiration I took from the research and included in my thriller was from the film Halloween. The opening scene for Halloween started with a flashback of the antagonist killed his sister. This inspired me to include a flashback at the beginning of the my thriller however, it was just a glimpse of the antagonist childhood of how he was alone.
All the primary and secondary research assisted with my planning as it helped me develop ideas on what to include in my thriller to make it successful and conventional to the genre.
I used a variety of methods to address my audience which lead to my primary and secondary research I gathered. The primary research I collected was essential to my production as it gave me an insight of what my audience looked for within a thriller in person. The methods I conducted to gain the results were through a questionnaire that I asked my target audience and Vox Pops; an act of filming an interview with members of public through a media device. Both tasks were very interesting and helpful as it allowed me to see what my target audience really thought about what they wanted in a thriller face to face. Also, they could elaborate more with the Vox Pops making my research more valid and reliable to refer to.
The research I carried out to create my thriller film was analysis's of thriller films on my blog, film certificates, narrative theory and the questionnaires.
Firstly, I researched into the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) which is an independent, non governmental body that classifies cinema films and videos/DVDs. In the research I learned the different types of age certificates for films and what their guidelines were. What I found through this was that thriller films were mostly classified as a 15. This was because unlike horrors that are rated 18 and start their movies with either strong violence, strong adult themes or extreme gore.This was not the aim for thrillers as they're about creating suspense instead of making the audience feel scared of their being.
Secondly, I made a series of blogposts showing the different types of ways thrillers were conventional in each micro element to gain more in depth understanding of the genre. For example, I had a blogpost of an analysis of the ways sound was conventional to a thriller in the film The shining.
Another, source of research I carried out was the different types of narrative theories,these included Propp, Todorov and Aristole. After learning about the different theories, I decided that my narrative suited the Aristotle theory like most thrillers do because It included an incident, dramatic question, character goal, protagonist and antagonist, a resolution and elements of sympathy and empathy.
The research was helpful especially when planning my thriller opening as it gave me more of an understanding of the genre and ideas on what to include in my thriller. An example of a inspiration I took from the research and included in my thriller was from the film Halloween. The opening scene for Halloween started with a flashback of the antagonist killed his sister. This inspired me to include a flashback at the beginning of the my thriller however, it was just a glimpse of the antagonist childhood of how he was alone.
All the primary and secondary research assisted with my planning as it helped me develop ideas on what to include in my thriller to make it successful and conventional to the genre.
Your analysis of question 5, demonstrates a basic understanding of how you addressed your target audience. You have started to consider the primary and secondary research that you carried out and you have started to consider some of the results that you received. However, these points need to be elaborated on further, by focusing on how the results assisted you in creating your sequence.
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