Evaluation - Question 5

How did we attract/address our audience?

There are many ways in which I attracted the audience, one of which was through facebook. I used this in order to promote my survey, this seemed to work well as quite a few people answered it giving me a wider range of how I could make my thriller suitable and effective.

There are also a number of different ways in which we kept the audience engaged throughout by creating suspense and tension in order to keep them wanting more! As I have already mentioned in the previous question I used surveymoney in order to find our target audience and be able to identify with the character throughout our thriller opening. we used a female casted as the victim in order to suit our results of who would be more likely to watch a horror based thriller, the audience would be able to syphasise with the character and show fear for her. Also, we used actors of a similar age to those who answered the survey in order to further help them identify with the characters involved. Furthermore, we ensured all of our actors seemed 'ordinary' in order to make the film look as real as possible , as it would be more likely to be believed.  

We believe the location of our thriller was very effective due to the errieness of it. We used Eastbrook End Country Park in order to create this eerie effect. This was because the park is deserted and made an excellent effect creating suspense throughout. We believe our setting was perfect for our desired effect, deserted and isolated, creating not just suspense but tension, which were two of the audiences main important components of thrillers stated. This was effective as it would create the image that the protagonist would have no where or no one to run to if they were in danger, this would therefore keep the audience on the edge of their seating wanting to watch more and find out what happened. 


Moreover, the fact that our thriller ends on a ciffhanger would encourager the viewer to carry on watching. This leaves the audience with a number of unanswered questions including; What happened to the protagonist? Will she survive or die? Who is the antagonist? Where are the protagonists friends and what happened to them? And why is the antagonist stalking the protagonist?