Our film opening research began off our general knowledge of what we knew to be successful in action-thriller films and the storyline of them, this made sure that our opening fitted in to the genre we wanted and therefore, would attract the right audiences for our film.
However, once we had our initial idea we made slight adjustments and changes based on other peoples suggestions and what they'd like to see in the opening or what they think would work better. Therefore, with this information I understood that I needed to make the narrative more clear and so it was easier to understand however, still needed to get the right balance between creating tension and suspense as well as the audience knowing the basic narrative.
Furthermore, it's proven that the audience will relate to the film / media more if the characters are of similar age. Therefore, there is two characters in our film similar to the age of the target audience meaning that they are more likely to be able to see themselves in this situation or imagine this happening to them and thinking what they would do in that scenario.
Another way in which we could tell if our film opening was successful or not was if it appealed to us making it, as the target audience was of our age it would especially have to attract us before anyone else and from this we would be able to make any changes necessary because we were able to relate to it better than if we made a film out of our age range. Moreover, the thriller genre of our film means that there is tension in the opening and we felt that tension would attract both genders and this proved successful as when receiving audience feedback we gathered 1 male and 3 females as we knew it would be harder to attract the female gender than male therefore, their view was important to us and the feedback was positive.
The location of our film opening also meant that the audience were addressed as we felt the location was conventional for a thriller genre and with it being filmed at night it added to the tension. Also the location would be familiar for the audience and therefore, the would be able to relate to the location of a car park which appeared to be isolated with no one else around. This location may also be a common place for the target audience meaning that they can relate to the film better.
However, once we had our initial idea we made slight adjustments and changes based on other peoples suggestions and what they'd like to see in the opening or what they think would work better. Therefore, with this information I understood that I needed to make the narrative more clear and so it was easier to understand however, still needed to get the right balance between creating tension and suspense as well as the audience knowing the basic narrative.
Furthermore, it's proven that the audience will relate to the film / media more if the characters are of similar age. Therefore, there is two characters in our film similar to the age of the target audience meaning that they are more likely to be able to see themselves in this situation or imagine this happening to them and thinking what they would do in that scenario.
Another way in which we could tell if our film opening was successful or not was if it appealed to us making it, as the target audience was of our age it would especially have to attract us before anyone else and from this we would be able to make any changes necessary because we were able to relate to it better than if we made a film out of our age range. Moreover, the thriller genre of our film means that there is tension in the opening and we felt that tension would attract both genders and this proved successful as when receiving audience feedback we gathered 1 male and 3 females as we knew it would be harder to attract the female gender than male therefore, their view was important to us and the feedback was positive.
The location of our film opening also meant that the audience were addressed as we felt the location was conventional for a thriller genre and with it being filmed at night it added to the tension. Also the location would be familiar for the audience and therefore, the would be able to relate to the location of a car park which appeared to be isolated with no one else around. This location may also be a common place for the target audience meaning that they can relate to the film better.
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