Evaluation Question 5;How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience?

Our thriller opening set out to leave the audience asking questions and wanting more information on what they have just witnessed. I  created a viewing session and a survey for people who had watched out thriller to take to find out what the audience felt about it.

This survey showed what the audience liked and was a good judge to see whether we achieved what we set out to. By asking these questions it gave us an overall view of what the audience wants and how well we have executed the different devices of suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers. 

The audience seemed to like our opening with over 87% saying they would carry on watching the film which is successful for us because we have achieved our goal or intriguing our audience.

The techniques we employed in our thriller appear to have worked in the way we had hoped. Our slow build up helped to draw out the suspense and our target audience seemed to enjoy it however we had one complaint that it was to slow but we understand that we cant please everyone. Also people seemed enticed by the fact that the focus switches and by how little we know about the character, this seemed to draw them into the film world and really want to follow the character through the story. The last comment we had also brought to our attention the idea of an unknown force which we had not initially thought about but by the viewer making this assumption we have already got them mulling it over in their mind to try to explain it, which is exactly the effect that we wanted.

The main attraction of our opening appears to be the violence with 5 of our viewers mentioning it as one of the better moments. We expected this to happen as action is a main attraction in most films but the other answers are also very interesting. The element of surprise was highlighted to us by one viewer  and when we did the screening this did make people jump even if it was slight, this emotional response is forcing the spectator to engage in our film either in a positive or negative way.

Overall our thriller was an engaging experience for all our viewers which was what we wanted because we thought that this would attract more of an audience. For example if we were marketing the film we could organise a bigger screening based on this smaller screening to attract a wider audience. We believe we achieved what we set out to in our opening because of the good feedback and because the viewers highlighted some of the points which we thought were stronger in our film such as the violence, the suspense and the surprise element.