Evaluation Question 4 & 5

(4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for our thriller would be ages 15+.
The reason for this is because our thriller is too violent and unsuitable for a young audience and the storyline is way too complicated for young minds to understand, but it is also somthing that older teenagers and people of the ages above will still enjoy.
One of the ways we identified the audience is by the look of our main character. By making our character a student, giving him average student clothes and having him set in a classroom, older generations of teen and young adults have someone to relate to and almost understand his situation a little bit better. This is not saying that adults and older generations wont feel the same way, the film also contains mystery and a small bit of horror (involving the crazed murderer at the end of the corridor) that lots of people get a thrill out of either old or young.


(5) How did you attract/address your audience?

One of the main ways thriller movies catch the attention of an audience is through using enigma, suspense, tension, and excitement as their main elements. People that watch thriller movies love the excitement and adrenalin they get from watchng them and are always looking for elements of that "thrill" when ever they see the trailer or advert for a thriller they may want to check out.
When making our thriller, we wanted to include some way of conveying that tension and and suspense to attract people and make them want to watch it.  We used enigma to give the thriller its erie feeling by filming the first half in a dark and mysteriouse hallway which was accomplished through the use of an artificial light scource. Horror was conveyed through the hooded man at the end of the hallway and the door myseriously locking the main character in. Also tension was built throughout by using diegetic and nondiegetic sound, this was done on editing software such as garageband and soundtrack pro as the camera couldn't pick up sound verry well and we needed to add music that would make the audience feel the tension. 
While filming we needed to make sure he audience knew what was going on at the same time as not giving too much of the storyline away too quickly, to do this we added an email to the storyline that had some text tht was readable for the audience so they could get an idea of what the situation was. One of the most visible peices of text on that email was "don't open the file", this gave the audience the idea that if this command was ignored then bad things would follow (like they did for the main character who did ignored this).
By adressing a small part of the plot like to the audience through this text, the audience is gripped and want to keep on watching to be able to  se what happens if the character opens the encrypted file.