How did you attract/ address your audience?

When researching a potential audience, I asked the question ‘what plot in a thriller most attracts you?’ after getting answers from this it helped develop a film opening and a plot that we knew was attractive to an audience. Also by getting an audience feedback on our rough cut, from people we were trying to attract our film to we knew if we were on the right track or if it didn’t attract them at all.

The Victim



The audience we are trying to attract are teenagers, so by using a young victim who is also a teenager the audience can relate to her and empathise, therefore attracting them.

Woman murderer



The challenged convention of using a blonde female killer would attract our audience because not only is it unusual but it would attract the female audience who may be able to relate to her and the male audience who are intrigued by someone who goes against the stereotypical ‘males are more powerful than women’.

Kidnapping plot





When we did conduct the questionnaire, kidnapping was a clear favourite in terms of plot preference. So when deciding shots to use we remembered the one we liked from taken. By having the shot of Imogene’s hands tied up at the beginning the audience we are trying to attract realise what is going on, intriguing them to keep on watching to see what happens next.