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From my audience research the results gave me information on what my target audience likes and dislikes. There was a high percentage of 15 year old who liked the gangster narrative, I addressed my audience by making my film a gangster thriller, and this sub-genre will encourage  them watch my film. From my focus group I learnt boys of this age enjoyed fast pace action. I achieved this by having intense torcher scenes, for example when I punched Callum and then pulled a gun to his head.. This is how I will maintain their focus on the film.

Most teenagers around this age were engaged by a good storyline and music. The music I included various diegetic sounds like the paper burning which made the film more engaging. This will make them more interested in the film, thus they will continue to watch it.

 My target audience will continue to watch my film after the 2 minute opening as they were appealed by the suspense that was created within the film, the suspense was created by the low key lighting  and the flash backs of torcher and other flash backs. Also by the transitions from the different shot of the watch and then to see Callum wearing the bad guys watch holds the audience attention as they are surprised in the end, it would be boring if they could predict what would happen in the end. That Callum escapes from this predicament. This will maintain the audience’s attention and they will want to watch further on than the two-minute opening. I have fulfilled the desires of teenagers by including everything they want in the film. My product is visually entertaining which will address our audience by giving them the 'thrill' they long for. After all if a thriller is not thrilling you then it is not doing its job. Everything that is in my film addresses to my target audience, I have considered their favourite aspects of a thriller movie. Also the location is realistic and it will interest people more as my film is very realistic. But with it being unknown to many people we can get away with any link shots as people may question the continuity of editing.

As we can see from my opening shot we used this o grab the audience’s attention. The way in which it  there attention is by getting them to ask questions. This was one of the techniques we were taught. This makes the audience want to keep watching. However we also made sure that we weren’t getting the audience to ask to many questions as it can confuse them resulting in people turning the film off. 

With this last shot from our opening we tried to carry on with the theme of getting the audience to ask questions. We have done this by getting them to think how did the protagonist survive what did he do to be in that predicament in the first place.  Also we left our editing open to the next part of the film which I feel only a few other groups have done. 

Producing our media piece we worked hard with our camera work to conceal the protagonists face as we wanted add an air of mystery. This is something we felt worked well as it was another thing that kept the audience in suspense wanting to know who he is and so on.