Question Five: How did you attract your audience?

We addressed our audience by using a variety of features, firstly looking at the theme we created. The genre we chose was thriller but we then chose to create more of a psychological thriller with the story of Lydia‘s hallucinations.

Themes that we then involved into our chosen genre were the possibility of the mental illness with our main character. Another theme could be that as our actress is young, it could represent teenage problems and how teenagers feel sometimes. 

These themes address our 15+ audience because it thrillers typically include a protagonist which in our case we did have, Thrillers also include mystery which we had by not letting the audience know whether the white masked people was her psychological state or real life. 

Another way we addressed our audience would be the settings that we chose, we had a variety of settings from inside a small park to the bedroom scene.

The bedroom scene is a personal scene which includes no dialogue just shots of Lydia. The bedroom represents a “normal” girls bedroom, so is aimed at girls. These camera shots of her in the bedroom show ‘normal’ things that people do in the morning, but instead we see how Lydia is different from others from her waking up to a nightmare to taking the drugs. 

As there is no dialogue it needs a audience to be able to interpret what is going on, so out chosen 15+ suits this. Our other locations like in the park when Lydia is jogging also suits our audience because the older audiences can relate more to it compared to the younger age groups.The score we picked is mysterious from its long, deep and slow rhythm this adds mystery to the characters life which gives the audience more questions to be asked on what is going on. When the white masked people appear on screen a slight bang is added to the score to add more shock to it, this makes the scene more scary which also fits in with our thriller genre. 

Throughout watching our film, the audience will constantly be on edge from the quick moving of different shots in different settings, and the different scores that are used so it takes the person watching to be able to link together the scenes and try to come up with a conclusion on what is going on so obviously the audience has to be mature so our genre suits it.

  

Whilst casting for our characters we aimed to find someone in their teenager years, and preferably female. This way we could aim our audience to be young females.  

Audience Profile: 

Age: 16+

Sex: Female

Hobbies: Dancing, singing, socialising, watching movies.

Likes: OUr audience enjoys shopping, partying with friends and socialising.

Dislikes: School work, Rock music, "being bored".

Favourite music artists: Drake, Rihanna, One direction and Katy Perry.