QUESTIONS 4&5

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT? Q4 Our film’s target audience is predominantly

15-24 year old males. Our film’s high level of suspense is something which seemed to appeal to this age range when we carried out our target audience research. Although we believe that both genders will enjoy our film, it is likely that a higher percentage of males would like it compared to females due to the Hitman theme.

TARGET AUDIENCE MOODBOARD

As you can see my moodboard represents many of the interests of our target audience of 15-24 year old males. This moodboard presents the general interests of a typical male in our intended age group. Football, console games and socialising are the main interests of our intended target audience. I have included Topman and River Island on my moodboard as these are typically the most favoured types of shops for our intended target audience.

TARGET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

After pitching our thriller opening idea to the proposed target audience, we have received some very good feedback. The vast majority of people who gave us feedback commented on how they felt that the ending of our opening definitely has the potential to leave the audience in suspense as to what will happen to the victim, if effectively executed. They also felt that the enigmas of why the victim is being tortured, is the man in the suit the protagonist of the situation etc were very strong and could leave the viewers in a deep sense of intrigue.

Our location is an office in London. This went down very well with the target audience. They agree that by using a busy capital city it gives the film a professional feel. They also felt that the fact that the location was so busy you would think that it would be difficult to get away with such a crime in such a city and so this makes the hitman look even more professional and realistic.

We received no feedback on how to improve the opening as people were very impressed and felt that it did not require any major adjustments. We did receive one piece of negative feedback which commented on how they believed the opening could come across as too typical as a thriller opening. Although we do take everybody's feedback into account we can not make any major changes to our film based on just one negative comment when the rest were all positive. However we will keep this in mind and try to steer clear of making it too typical.

Every person who gave us feedback confirmed that they would watch the rest of the film after seeing the opening. The aim of every thriller opening is to make the audience want to continue to watch the film and as we have achieved this we feel that our opening has the potential to be successful.

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE? The thriller genre is enjoyed by our intended

target audience of 15-24 year-old males due to the thrill and suspense which is something that interests them. We therefore aimed at developing this side of the film as much as we possibly could in order to maintain our audience’s attention.

To do this it was vitally important that we used enigma codes and music to develop suspense through our film. This is due to the fact that our opening was not action packed and so we needed to grasp attention in other ways.

THRILLER CONVENTIONS

One of the main thriller conventions and especially that of a hitman thriller is smart, business like, clothing of the hitman. As you can see from the screen grab we followed this convention.

Another thriller convention is a business office environment which we used in our film.

We used as many thriller conventions as possible in order to attract our audience.

ENIGMA CODES An enigma code is a question that goes unanswered throughout the film.

Throughout or film there remains the constant enigma of the identity of the protagonist. We did this by using shots that did not show his entire face This adds a sense of mystery and suspense.

Another enigma throughout our opening is what the protagonist intends to do and where he is going as we do not see him reach his final destination until the last seconds of the opening.

MUSIC In our film we used very soft music whilst the

protagonist was getting ready to create an unassuming environment. We then use a more intense soundtrack in order to begin to create a more sinister tne t the film and get the audience excited by the prospect of the rest of the film. This music continues until our last shot which is a zoom out shot to reveal the victim when the music changes to much more sinister and reaches a loud conclusion as the film ends. This increase in intensity excites the audience for a very short amount of time and concerns them about what might be revealed.