Question 2 - How Did You Attract Your Audience?

With the audience we did show a lot of conventions that are of a Thriller. The first noticeable one’s are with the actually filming and the shots we use, Pan and tracking shots. These are typical shots used to establish the location and settings used which for us was the lonely park. We constantly show the isolation of our protagonist to show the audience that he has no one to rely on to help. People expect to see a main character overcome problems and in the end defeat or stand up to the enemy or villain, but for us we mixed that up so for the audience it might be a bit confusing and they might not understand why he dies in the end rather than ending up victorious. As a group we agreed on a 12/12a rating as we feel the film didn’t have any graphic images or violence shown, but the stalker idea may be seen as an adult theme so putting it at a 12 would be right. But keeping it at a 12 will attract different audiences to see our film as they will think it hasn’t got a dark tone and will be suitable to others including younger adults and children. With the mise-en-scene the audience can relate to our protagonist as he looks and acts like and ordinary person. The setting of the park is just a normal setting where you wouldn’t expect someone to be stalked especially during the day with people around. Our protagonist is just an average person who has stumbled into the wrong situation and people might be able to relate to that maybe not in the stalker way but in a day to day living way. He ends up having to be cautious when he suspects he’s being followed and he acts like any normal person by trying to get out of there, but unfortunately for him he doesn’t escape. Every year people are taken off the streets never to be seen and with our film we want to get the message across of be careful who you trust. Our character didn’t know or even acknowledge the stalker but this just says that you need to be careful wherever you are and to not put yourself in any danger. Theres never really any equilibrium within our film apart from the beginning where both parties are unaware of each other and our character is just having a normal walk in the park. Our questionnaires we gave out had mix responses both good and bad and to do with different aspects of the film. Acting was one aspect but we didn’t want to change our actor as compared to the stalker he seems a bit unspoken and powerless which for this films was key. Editing especially over the type of transitions used between clips as we usually just went with the stop and start or a fade in/out. Black and white was also suggested because of the mood we were going with (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4), but we thought that it wouldn’t work because we wanted this to relate to normal people and their everyday lives. And finally the overall idea people thought it wasn’t enjoyable or made much sense why it was happening, we wanted this to say that things like this can happen to anyone not matter where you are.