Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 5

When creating our opening to our film, we tried to our target audience by including a young main character that was around the age of the audience that we considered was going to be watching our film. This is likely to attract our target audience of 15-25 year old males, as they feel that they can relate to the main character and make them more involved with the film and the character as well. This would add to the film’s success, as the audience is more likely to connect and relate with this character than if we casted an actor that was in a different age bracket to our target audience.

There are moments in our film, which would be uninviting for people below the age of 15 as the scenes within the opening could possibly be disturbing for a viewer of this age. For example, in our film opening we have included a scene, in which a body covered by a white sheet, which gives the audience the assumption that the person has died. These scenes could however, help to attract our target audience on the lower end of the age range of 15 years, as these scenes may help our younger audience feel more mature by being permitted to watch it, as they have only recently hit this age bracket and also that in this era evidence shows that individual of an even younger age have experienced graphic content on other platforms like our film. This means that the certificate that we have given the film will be appropriate, as we feel that by this age that the content within our film won’t be anything that this age group hasn't seen before.

Within our film opening, we make sure that the camera angles are placed so that the audience is in the position of the main character, which is the inspector. By doing this, this gives the impression that the audience is on the journey with the inspector for the rest of the film, making the film more attracting and also gives a better narrative to the film. This will also make the film more appealing the our target audience as this age range what a well put together story line and by adding the view point of the inspector throughout the opening, it gives a different perspective to the film.

As our film is based around the crime/thriller genre, we have tried to incorporate as many generic conventions into the film opening, so that our target audience insanely know what the film genre is meaning they have an idea of what the film will be about before watching the whole film. This gives the audience want they are asking for and because of the twist that the film is revolved around, this gives the storyline and film in general a more attracting fell to it.