Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

We used a linear story line that allows the audience to follow the film easily and for the narrative to make sense. We used defied the stereotype characters of a thriller like like the hero who is in fact an innocent boy rather than a dominant older male. We used the minor character to establish the film and allow the audience to relate and understand some of the character types, and then using George as a binary opposite to the 'normal' hero. 

We also used equilibrium to follow Todorov’s theory of narrative and allow the story line to have a baseline of what is normal in this world and show that George isn't afraid of the woods at the beginning and show the viewer he is free and innocent through his playfulness in the woods and his shock and fear when he sees the dead body. The disruption is the lead up to and seeing the dead body. It tweaks the equilibrium and makes something unnatural to the ordinary daily life and also implies to the audience that this is where the story changes. This engages and excites the audience because something is about to change, which leads to the conventional storyline of a thriller and allows the audience to be interpolated in the film.

Through the film we would use cross cutting to show where the killer/thing is in reason with George and the other characters. We would only use POV shots and over the shoulder shots to keep the identity of the killer hidden until the end which creates tension and suspense.

Our opening to our thriller engages the audience by using a cliffhanger at the end which allows it to leave questions for the main part of the film like that killed the girl and why there is a dead body in the river. This engages the audience and allows the theme of ambiguity to be built. Furthermore, we enticed the audience to carry on watching the film through the use of tension builders and false scares. The tension builders are used through the intertextuality scene of George firing the bow. He carries it throughout the scene, but at this point the tension is raised to whether he is firing the bow to hunt or he is firing it just for the fun. We used this scene because it allows the audience to question themselves what George is doing. It allows our viewers to become immersed in the film and allows them to make their own decisions to what might happen next. In addition the scene where George finds the scarf and then the glove is a tension builder because the audience doesn't know what is coming next. The music raises questions to what is the scare and creates false scares like when George picks up the arrow and turns to look but the camera doesn't and it cuts to the scarf.

We engaged our audience through mise en scene in the opening to our thriller by showing props that George would use in the forest and play with. We didn’t want to George to be suspicious, rather a boy playing in the woods and having fun. The main idea of our opening was to show the ordinary to extraordinary and shock the audience. To reflect this idea we took a typical normal scene, George playing and lead up to something extraordinary of him finding the dead body in the river. The mise en scene we used was to show the ‘norm’ like rucksacks and a toy bow and arrow.

My primary audience will engage will George, the main character through the idea that George is reflecting them when they were younger. My audience is prominently male so would see their younger selves in the character and George is also a symbol of our target audience through ethnicity which is primarily white British. Furthermore, the costume is reasonably modern, unintentionally, with the Superdry jacket and high top trainers which reflects how my audience likes to keep up with modern trends and like to wear fashionable clothing.