Evaluation Task 4 - Who is the target audience for our thriller?

The target audience for our thriller is mainly for 15-25 year olds, but older viewers may also enjoy it as they will probably know someone who has had a break-up similar to that, as the characters are fairly normal. The reason that younger viewers are more likely to identify with the characters is because they will definitely either have had firsthand experience of something like this or will know of many cases like it. This is due to their age, as it is fairly commonplace now for young people between the age of 15-18 to go through many boy/girlfriends in a year. Someone who would be likely to go and see this film would also tend to prefer independent films as opposed to Hollywood blockbusters, maybe because they want to be different, or because this is the sort of film that would have people swarming to go and see it, and this person would probably have a lot of spare time on their hands. They would tend to be more in to the whole emo scene, or be very alternative in their style, the kind of person who would enjoy a dark film about revenge and holding a deep grudge against someone for years.

The viewer would also have to have an interest in indie films, because it is not shot in a regular way. We break the 180 degree rule numerous times, and this will make it very disorientating for the viewer, possibly even to the point that the audience may feel sick. However until the editing is finished we won’t know quite what effect that will have on the audience and at this stage we are still aiming for a dark feel to the film. Even though the room is well lit, the theme behind the story is menacing, and once Ellie gets over her initial rage, it turns to scheming. The rapidity of the opening is what will keep the audience interested, each shot is about 1-2 seconds long, the jumps between locations will make the audience uncomfortable and the difference in sound will be highly noticeable. In her room she is going insane, breaking things, and screaming whereas the only emotions we get from him are a mixture of relief and stress, with the only sounds coming from him being calm and subdued. The only weaknesses I can see so far in our thriller are that I think the lighting is different in each location which could potentially confuse the audience, as we shot in the Turrets at around 3-4 o’clock, so we were already losing light.