We asked 20 different students around our school 3 questions
The questions we asked were
- What is your gender?
- What is your age?
- What is your favourite genre of music?
- What type of music video do you like? Performance, Narrative?
- What makes a music video enjoyable
1. Our gender ratio of male to female was consistent as we wanted a fair representative of the people that are going to watch our music video. We want our music video to be directed to male and female and for people to be able to connect and relate to it despite their gender.
2. The age that we got answers from were mostly 16-18 as we wanted to know what the younger population were interested in.
3.
A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, chasing one of the following 3 options.
A website homepage for the band
A cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package)
A magazine advertisement for the digital (CV/DVD package)
pros
- you don't have to necessarily worry about making any music or sound you can use an ratites song if it isn't copy right
- The lyrics in a song can give you possible ideas for shots or even a narrative
- You don't have to a narrative it can be performance based.
- You like watching music videos and listening o music
- You have London which gives you a host of stunning locations to use to film
- You have freedom to make a shape an Artis into what you want them to look like/act like
Cons
- It can be hard to edit and lop sync if you decide to include this in the music video
- You have to have good actors which can be hard to find
- The narrative can sometimes be limited in the song style
Analysis of a year 13 music video
- Narrative is not entirely clear, but is alluded to through the lyrics as she goes shopping to get over a boy. Therefore the lyrics match the visuals on screen demonstrate kissing and allude to the notion of love
The video sells the artist as innocent and sweet, but the visuals sell the artist as being more independent and not sexualised. Through the visuals as she is sold as mixture of Taylor Swift and Florence and the machine and the backdrop of graffiti and urban streets help reinforce her independence. These are used to help ell the singer as organs and rather than a synthetic pop star aimed at mainstream teenage and pre-teen audience.
Quick cuts and whip pans help sell the authenticity of the artist and maintain the video is cut to the beat. It makes me frenetic and fast pace.
Clothing and close-ups also reinforce the Artis image as it helps sell her as the girl-next-door type who is sweet and not constructed to sell her sexuality like Britney/Nicky Minaj/Katie Perry.
I like the actor, it fitted into the song and make it all flow and created a story.
Todorov
Theory
Equilibrium - The beginning when everything appears normal
Disruption - Something happened to disruptive the normality
Recognition - When the characters realise something has happened to them and they decide to act upon it
Attempt to restore - The act of trying to restore the normality
New equilibrium - Everything is back to normal - except its not - as its a new normality as things have changed after their joinery.
All narratives are structured in the same way be it films, tv dramas, radio plays or novels. All narratives have a beginning, middle and end although they doubt necessarily come in that order.
Momento
Kill Bill
Fight club
Usual suspects
How do these songs follow Todorovs theory
Hero
- The music video starts at the point of a disruption, the couple are already clearly on the run, as they have money in the back. Recognition occurs wen he realises the has to gift in order to win the heart of the girl he loves. The attempt to restore normality is during the fight when he is trying to defeat the girls ex-lover and win the girl and not have to fight for her anymore. At the end there is a new equilibrium where the fight has finished and he has won the girl but it has come at a price as he is about to die so all the disruption is behind them but now he is going to die and she is on he won as her ex-lvoer is going to jail and her new-lover is going to die. The narrative of the music video is selling him as a heart throb and loyal, which makes girls attracted to him and want him. The target audience is mainly aimed at women.
Band of horses - Dilly
The equilibrium exists for the bikers and town people at the beginning as neither of them have met at this point as neither knows that the other is a danger. Wee this through the cross cutting, we see the bikers on the road and then we see the people in the bar - there is going to be a disruption as they will meet soon. The disruption occurs when the bikers enter the bar and we see their reactions. The bikers clearly like to be violent and so do the town people which leads to the attempt to restore. The recognition is that they realise they don't like each other, e.g. they are treating the girls with dis respect, therefore they are acting violent towards each other. The attempt to restore is the shoot-out. The hippies use their fingers while the rednecks use their guns. Hippies come in pease, but are faced with violence and so react. The new equilibrium is when the hippies ride off into the sunset and the town is faced with devastation. The narrative of the music video fits with the image of the band and helps sell their star image as alternative, country rockers.
Britney Spears - toxic
It starts of with an equilibrium of her doing a day normal day job of being an air hostess, and all the passengers being passengers on the airplane. She then creates a disruption of her pouring on the guys lap. She is seducing the guy in the toilet, and then steals his phone in the toilet. She is showing herself as a sexual figure. When she jumps on the bike it is a attempt to restore in Paris which reveals she is a spy. There is then a new equilibrium as he is dead because she kills the guy with the poison she stole from the secret chamber. She then moves back to her normal air stewardess job.
Literal music video, also called a literal video version, is a parody of an official music video clip in which the lyrics have been replaced with lyrics that describe the visuals in the video.
Literal video versions are usually based on music videos in which the imagery appears illogical, dis
1. When Miley Cyrus was first discovered it was through Disney channel in 2006. She became massive one the Disney show "Hannah Montana" where she had to act, dance and sing. As Hannah Montana she has many opportunities, one being her performing during the Disney Channel Games in 2007 concert at The Ballpark at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex on April 27, 2007 in Kissimmee, Florida. Disney channel opened so many doors for Miley and allowed her to meet loads of new people. This shows her youthfulness and she wanted to show talent.
2. In 2009 Actress Miley Cyrus went to perform at Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on March 28, 2009 in Westwood, California. Here Mileys fan base was massive, due to all the young girls during this time, watching 'Hannah Montana' and falling in love with her image and her music. Selling herself as organic country singer/l
3. Singer and actress Miley Cyrus grows up as her look becomes more sophisticated . At the the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatreon March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California.Miley had a tasteful look for the ceremony and everyone here respected her, at this age she is still projecting a clean cut image to her fans.
4. Here Miley Cyrus started changing her image, and growing up, and using her sexuality as an advantage. An examples when she performs at the ''Rock in Rio Madrid'' music festival on June 6, 2010 in Arganda del Rey, Spain.Fans not only got to hear Miley sing, they got to see her in revealing outfits to. Here she is selling herself as more sexual as she is growing up and is starting to rebel against her manufactures image of her by her record company
5. In 2013 Miley Cyrus arrives at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards at Staples centre on September 6, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Miley was being revealing with her clothing choice , and acting very different to how she normally did. She cut her hair and died it blonde which was a drastic change to her normal every day next door girl look. Here she is selling herself as being rebellious, as her audience has grown up and so has she, she is now free of the record company.
6. From then on Miley Cyrus outfits just got more and more revealing. She was trying to hard to change her image and get everyone not thinking that her only side was 'Hannah Montana'. When she attends tMTV Video Music Awards in 2013 at the Barclays centre on August 25, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. She performed with Robin Thicke, and everyone was shocked. She disregard for social values relating to drugs sex and polite behaviour. By this stage she is hanging out with the flaming lips, and wilfully rejecting her old image of Hannah Montana and alienating her old fans.
Richard Dyer is an academic at Warwick university who wore a book called stars 'The mythology of stardom' = he analysed the appeal of different stars to the audience and came up with the notion that stars are 'bought an consumed on the strength of their meanings'
Starts depend upon a range of subsidiary media - magazines, TV, radio, the internet - in order to construct an image for themselves which can be marketed to their target audiences
The star image is made up of a range of meanings which are attractive to the target audiences.
Fundamentally, the star is incoherent, that is incomplete and 'open'. Dyers says that this is because it is based upon 2 paradoxes.
Paradox 1
- The star must be simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary for the consumer
- The star must be simultaneously present and absent for the consumer
The star image
- Incoherences of the star image ensures that audiences continually strive to 'complete' or to 'make sense of' of the image. This is achieved by continued consumption of the star through his or products. In the music industry, performance seems to promise the completion of the image, but it is always ultimately unsatisfying. This means that fans will go away detained to continue consuming the star in order to carry on attempting the complete their image.
What they symbolically represent to the audience and what they stand for, e.g. they project and what they stand for e.g. they project an image and the audience chose which bits they consume or reject.
In order to understand the relationship between the music industry and its audiences, it is important to consider the roles of music stars
The term 'star' refers to the semi-mythological set of meanings constructed around music performers in order to sell the performer to a large and loyal audience
The image of a star has to develop and change over a period of time - In order to keep the audiences interest and grow and enlarge their fanbase
Some common values of music stardom
- youthfulness
- rebellion
- sexual magnetism
- An anti-authroitairan attitude
- Originality
- Creativity/talent
- Aggression/anger
- A disregard for socia lvalues relating to drug, sex and polite behaviour
- Conspicuous consumption, of sex, drugs and material goods
- Success against the odds
2 pac is someone from common values of music stardom. 2 pac offers sexual magnetism, this is because of the clothes he chooses to wear, and sometimes he doesn't even wear a top, exaggerating sexuality even more. However he does offer original talent and writes his owns songs. 2 pac offers rebellion, by getting solved with drugs and promoting it through his songs. 2 pac creates success against his odds, as his parents were not the perfect people, and his childhood wasn't the greatest, and therefore he highlights aggressions and anger against authority, and doesn't like to do what others do. He then unfortunately died due to his disgrace for social values and obsessions with drugs and getting involved with the wrong people.
• Symbolic - colours/use of mine-en-scene that help define the genre
Elements of a pop performance is there through the revealing clothing and the choreographed dance routine. The singer Gaga is the star and is the centre point of all routines accentuating her sexual moves and her ability to dance
Narrative - Prison connotes rebellion against authority - goes against societal norms - plays with ideas that were circulating about her being transgender.
Thematic - tries to represent her as different and being weird and rebellious and controversial
Symbolic - Clothing/tapes wrapped round her in prison sells her as sexual whereas the cigarette sunglasses sell her as weird. Clothing throughout is used to represent her as controversial.
Ideologies of creativity (organic and synthetic artists)
- Keith Negus - Producing pop
- Identifies two distinct ways of thinking about potential artists from within the music industry.
- These ideologies shape the way in which the artists images and careers are developed, and the way in which the artists images and careers are developed, and the way that they are marketed towards specific target adenines
- The organic ideology of creativity and the synthetic ideology of creativity
Organic artists develop over time they are musicians that write there own songs and they are not manufactured by record companies, and they get to develop their own image and also focus on life performance.
These type of artists, tend have longer careers and are focused on a more mature audience.
Organic artists
- Ed sheeran
- Kasabian
- Artic monkey
- Queen
- Jay Bay
- Hosier
- Elvis
- Kings of Leon
- Chance the rapper
- James bugg
Synthetic Ideolgogy of Creative 2
- Emphasis is given to playlist, TV promotion and looks to promote first albums. Essentially all x fact winners.
- Often aimed at younger, less sophisticated audiences.
- Profits generated by this kind of artist tend to be part of an immediate, short term strategy by the record company.
- One direction
- Drake
- Miley Cyrus
- Justin Bieber
- Katy Perry
- Little mix
- No bad present or lip syncing as the band are not trying to sell their own star image. Faceless dance acts rely on marketing ploys as music videos with memorable sequences rather than performances oft the artists.
- Intertextual references in the video include parodying a Jeremy Kyle style Tv presenter descent into drug hell. Clearly appealing to the intended audience of young people.
- Quick cuts that are cut to the beat of the music reflect the genre of music.
- Lyrics match the visual on the screen - he is in a car driving aimlessly as the lyrics state no where left to go.
- Narrative driven music video tha reflects the genre of music and intended target audience.
- Production values demonstrate that the music video is intended for a mainstream audience.
- Its got a narrative - but it is more of a thought beat as it makes you think more about the song than the artist.
- It's selling the artist as alternative/indie as you don't see him and focus more on the song than the image.
- Visuals match the lyrics in an opaque manner (unclear).
- Handheld camera creates verisimilitude as we almost feel like we are in the hospital. The use of the colours add to this effect and makes eh hospital almost dream-like.
- The grainy effect connotes death/miserable feel of the visuals despite the juxtaposition between the happiness of the ancestors routine/almost psychotic nature of the dancer and the colour palette of the visuals. Thos adds to the theme of the visuals.
There are intertextual reference points to more obscure arty films (Tarantiono, David Lynch)
Star image as her names comes up makes it more of a movie based video.
Scopophilia as we see Taylor swift through the additional camera lens when the mirror flicks up.
Title comes up makes it look like a movie
The camera opens across and sexualises Taylor swift and the women in the music video male gaze
Close up sells the star during the chorus of her singing
Slow motion is often used in music videos to imply to the videos - When she broke through the wall to show her strength
Use the knives the cut to the beat. Cut to the beat as she gets on the beat.
Different outfit changes to sell her star image
Lyrics match the video - Bad blood - punching
During the ski part of the song, it focuses on a tracking shot as the pace slows down to match her vocals.
Split screen makes you want to watch it again and also through the setting
CGI effects intertextual reference to the magnificent seven
Dis-continuity editing is employed in music videos to encourage the viewer to repeatedly watch them.
In bad blood we see the repletion of fighting scenes , slow motion and close-ups of Taylor swift as the song reaches its conclusion. Music videos do not have to look like sims and therefore sequences can be repeated as long as they are not to repetitive.
1. Always going to be lip-syncing.
2. Storyline - This can be seen through thought beats.
3. Editing - Always cut to the beat of a song.
4. Music cut to the visuals and matches it.
5. Mise/en/scene - matches the pace and genre of the song.
6. Conspicuous use of close ups to sell the star image of the artist.
7. Lyrics match the visuals.
8. Intertextual references - when a music video looks like something
9. Scopophilia - sexual pleasure through looking t someone else, in music videos this in through an additional lenses that look at the artist.
What do you like about our movie and please give feedback on things we can improve .... These are a few answers I got
'I liked the non diegetic music as it had a real cinematic effect. The quality was really good, and the colours, and fading of voices, intrigued me. I really enjoyed it and it was really creepy. I would have loved to see more.' I then asked if I was going to give some feedback on how to improve what would you say. 'would alter the voices too make them sounds more similar, as it sounds like more than one person, when it was supposed to be one.'
They also said that they liked how the suspense built up with the music. When it was at the climax, the music got to the loudest point, which enhanced the tension.
Another thing that a lot of people liked was at the beginning it was obvious I was in the car, due to the diegetic sound effect of the car and the light fading across my face showing I was in the boot of a car and the light symbolised other cars going past and street lights.
They said they liked the font. We were happy they said this as we had tried so hard to make it perfect.
They liked how at the end of the film we zoomed into the machinery, and that it was powerful.
Overall the feedback is very positive. I conducted a small survey asking 35 people to give their honest rating of my movie from 1 to 10 (10 being an amazing film), and asked them what they liked about the movie and what they would change.
7 of the questioned people where aware of the synopsis to the film but the rest weren’t. The questioned people composed of:
4 close friends
3 family members
3 school teachers (2 of them teaching media)
5 people from my target audience
8 mutual friends
8 friends of friends
4 strangers
Here are the results:
Then I asked them what they liked about the movie overall, the summary of what they all said is:
They really liked the colours, they said that "the colours are aesthetically appealing".
They mentioned how the camera angles used in the film were very creative and helped tell the story better.
A lot of the people mentioned how they where very curious to find out what happens to her next, and wanted to watch more.
They all said that they really liked the music as well as the audio used in the movie, one of the teachers said that "it really suited the film".
The voice acting was liked by most, no one said that they didn't like the quality of the voice acting and no one mentioned anything about the story being to confusing or hard to understand.
My target audience really like the cinematography and tension within the film, 3 of them said they were on their toes throughout the whole film. They also really enjoyed the finale and found it to be very effective, one of them said "when the camera shook I got shivers".
Then I asked what they think I should change about the film, the summary of what they said is:
9 people said they think the opening shots were Love is on the floor and moves her head up should be angled different, most suggested that the camera should be closer to her or at a different point of view. I agree with their feedback and will improve on that in future projects. The people who did not know of the synopsis said that the voices were too similar and not distinct enough from each other. However, i then explained to them that that was intentional, some stuck with their statement, and some understood and found my intended effect to be very intriguing.
A lot of the viewers also mentioned how it did not make sense how Love got up immediately after she was confronted by Autem, they assumed she would be too scared to get up after what happened to her. However, I explained to them that in the Longer cut there is a scene where she experiences a panic attack directly after he leaves, she gets up to eventually confront him back. That scene was eventually cut out because of time saving reasons. They then understood the situation.
To finish off the feedback and to get a full scope of what people think of our opening sequence, Libby and I decided to present the film to our class mates to see what they think of it, this is their feedback:
Conclusion:
To conclude I think the movie was an overall success, I, personally, am very proud with the final outcome. It is my first ever film, and I know I put the most possible amount of effort I could put into its creation, considering the film making experience, time, and resources I had to work with. I would personally rate my film at an 8 or 9, because, even though in a whole the film is very good, I can still think of many ways it could be improved, especially in the aspects of cinematography (camera angle, camera work, etc.) and clarity of story telling, and for any future projects those aspects will be the two things I will be keenly looking out for to improve and develop on.
How have you attracted/addressed your target audience
Movie posters
When creating my movie poster, I had an image in my head of what I wanted it to look like. Our film is centred around colour and therefore I wanted to incorporate that in my poster. There are 3 main aspects of our film. The vulnerable naive girl, the psychotic man, and the interesting props we used to convey fear such as the roses, and the Styrofoam heads.
I thought of many ideas but there were my 3 favourites….
First idea - My first idea was to do a close up of girls eyes and have a reflection of the male character in her eye. I think this would have created mystery. The background would have been black to create danger.
Second idea - A shot of a plain styrofoam head with a red rose stuck in its mouth, with different colours reflecting onto the face.
Third idea - Another idea was a a rose pedal mid-air falling towards a water puddle, with the roses from the film in the reflection. I thin this would have been simple but effective at the same time.
My favourite idea was number 2 because I think it represented the full idea of my movie, and I could experiment with different frames and colours, with the heads.
Fina chosen image
We experimented with a lot of angles and colours, and these were a few of our outcomes. The last one was our favourite. I thought the angle was really good, as the from the front view, you can see more and it looks more creepy as it looks like the man is staring at you in the face. I also thought the colour was perfect in this shot. Half of it is red and the other half is blue. I think this represents the feelings, and this image is a lot deeper and holds a lot more than it looks like.
We edited it on Photoshop CC, which is used for creative use and we wanted to take full advantage of this. In the scene of the male character speaking the colours were red and green, so we decided to adjust the colours, to match. What we did is we digested the tone, the gamma, the exposure, the saturation and the contrast which improved the image massively. We wanted to perfect the poster, as its the first thing you see even before the movie, therefore expectations are going to be made even even before the audience watch it. We wanted it to be creative, interesting and eye catching and I think we achieved this.
When asking people for feedback, they said that they thought the title was too distracting. Therefore using the curve tooI I started to adjust the title and resulted with a more purple result. We re-showed the class and they loved it, and so did I. This demonstrates the fact that our target audience of 15 years plus, were attracted and addressed through our poster. By featuring very little about the actual film, but making it seem that it was dark and onimous we were able to connote that our film was a horror. In addition the way in which the character is in the middle, with their mouth covered and there eyes shut, we were able to symbolise a menacing aspect to our film which was further evoked through the merging of the 2 colours red and green. The covering of the mouth was also used to symbolise along with the blurring of the colours the fact that our character had mental health issues. With the red colour being dominant this showed that the evil side of the characters personality, was more in control. The way in which the colours are hazy, and blur into the face we also felt evoked a cinematic effect, and made it looked like our character was walking through a dream, which was also was supposed to symbolise his bipolar personality. The fact that the character has no hair and his eyes are shut and his skin is shaven gives the character a robotic look and infers they are empty inside, which was also further symbolising the multiplying layers of the characters personality. As well as this are casting choices and our use of mise-en-scene also targeted our target audience and addressed them.
In our opening scene, we used a variety of different things to help attract our target audience. We therefore thought long and hard about the way we wanted the actors to be perceived. We also thought about the type of diegetic and non diegetic music we needed to include, as well as the location it was set.
The first thing we thought about what the location. We wanted to make it in an interesting area, that would be intriguing, and therefore bring people in to watching it. We didn't want to do it in a relatable place, as we thought that would be boring, and typical, and as our theme for our opening scene is very unusual we wanted to match it with a great unusual place.
We thought about doing it in
Park
House
School
Prison like room
Grave yard
However we weren't satisfied with out options, so we kept researching, when finally we found a
perfect place, which was a real life prison that was being renovated. We knew that man that owned it and so we thought it was perfect to film our opening sequence there.
We asked people what they thought of the locations and the ones they thought would interest them the most.
The results came back like this…
Prison like room
Grave yard
School
Park
House
From these results we can conclude, that the most usual places, were the least popular. We asked a couple of the participants that filled out the sheet why and they said it was because they were the most expected and in a thriller you want mystery. Another person said if you want to attract people to watch something, you need to do something that will make people excited and scared to watch it.
The most popular answer was, prison like room. We again asked a few of the participants why this would attract them the most to watching our film. One of them said, that its because its in an unusual setting. They wouldn't want the film, to be somewhere they go everyday, as that defeats the suspense of thriller, and already gets rid of the effect of mystery.
The next thing we thought about was the characters. We wanted to have female, and male characters in out thriller, to have both genders wanting to watch it. Our Primary audience was … We decided to have a teenage girl, as this would attract the female audience as they could relate to someone like them, however it would also affect the male gender, as they could be attracted to the female character. When researching, and asking people for their opinions, a lot of males, said that they were more likely to watch the film if the female character was attractive. A lot of things that attract people to thrillers violence or aggression, and we portrayed this through our choice of male character. We made him be aggressive towards the female. This would therefore affect our primary target audience.
My Actor is a teenage girl, she is similar to other characters in other movies such as Selena gomez, and drew barrymore in scream.
My male character is an older man, he is also similar to other characters in other movies such as Antony Hopkins in silence of the lamb and Kevin spacey in seven.
This is a shot of our main actress. Her facial expressions look extremely terrified. I think this picture would get the audience attentions for different reasons. To begin with, our actresses face is very dark, which gives a miserly vibe.It reveals how scary and dangerous the film can be. I think this will catch the audiences attention and make our genre more evident as a thriller horror as it creates suspense an tension.
This is shot from, a different view, you will see in the movie. It is our actress sitting in the car, as she has been kidnapped. However in the actual movie, you will only see a close up of her eye, and car sounds which will make it easier to understands she is in a car. In this scene it is dark which has connotation of danger and violence. The whole seen is black and this creates suspense and mystery.
This page above indicates the target audience, we are aiming at. This boy is a normal teenager, who goes to school, and is active on social media. He is in education studying his A levels, and his hobbies include going skate boarding and playing guitar. When he finishes school, he wants to go to university and study media and film and then go into the film industry.As he is active on social media, he has been able to see our trailer we posted on Facebook, which is great, as it shows that our ways of distributing are aimed at things our target audience, are doing on a day to day bases - Like going on facebook. Our film is a thriller, and therefore more boys are attracted to it, however our second target audience is teenage girls, the boys may go with their girlfriends to watch the film, which will increase our target audience even more.
Why would he like my film?
I think he would like our film because he is in the perfect age range. We were aiming at around 17-30. We wanted teenagers to enjoy our film, because we thought they could relate, and when doing a survey about what films people liked most, teenagers responded highest to thrillers. Jay Adams is studying media right now, and then wants to further carry on his education of media at university, that is why we thought he would enjoy our film as he is into film and technology. Jay likes music, and likes playing electric guitar, which is associated with punk and rock music. The stereotypical teenage boy that likes rock music would also like dangerous thriller films. Jay also likes playing video games such as ‘call of duty’, which also have association with danger, which relate to my film. Therefore I think that Jay Adams is our perfect target audience member
We decided on 17-30 years of age due to our survey and charts we made. We thought that 17-30 was a not to large of a spectrum for our target audience. We thought that people younger than 17 would get to scared by the content of a thriller, and people older than 30 get the thrill out of out movie as much as people younger, therefore that is how we decided to choose our range in target audience.
To officially decide our genre, we needed to ask 30 members of our target audience as to what type of thriller they want to see, we explained to them what the story is about and showed them the Storyboard V2.0, here are the results:
Again, I went to a list found on IMDB, of the top 20 best Phycological Thriller films (at time of writing):
Here is a definition of what a Target Audience is:
‘A particular group at which a product such as a film or advertisement is aimed’.
Based on this information we research on IMDB we discovered that films which we were based similar to ours, had the majority target audience of 18-29. I also wanted to do this target audience as, it this age range is the most accessible to me, with students within this age range at my school, therefore I have access, for people to watch it, feedback, and input to what they would enjoy. Teenagers are still developing and finding themselves, therefore I think that the viewers will be able to relate to the girl actor. They could understand her emotional state and sympathise with her. Therefore I think I have chosen my target audience wisely and looked at all possible outcomes.
SECONDARY TARGET AUDIENCE
We knew that our secondary target audience would be a female teenager.
Video explanation
I wanted to do a video, explaining what typical teenage boys, do on a day to day basis, and some of their thoughts on questions that I thought were suitable to this task. One thing that I have picked up on is how popular the app snapchat is. Everyone is using it, to communicate through video, pictures and public stories that all your friends can see. I thought it would be a good way to show our target audience, through one of the things they do most - which is Snapchat. The people I interviewed, were boys aged 16-18. They all had an interest in thriller movies, and playing football. I asked one the boys - “What do you like most about thrillers” They replied “The thing I like most about thrillers is that there is a thrill factor, you don't get with other films, like silly comedies and stupid horror”. Taking this answer into consideration and linking it to my opening sequences, I think we successfully did portray the thrill factor and have some tense moments in our movie. I found out why people like the beginning of a thriller film, to be good. This is because it makes you want to carry on. You don't want to give to much away, and then the audience member will want to find out more. He also set it introduces the characters. This is what we were aiming for, when making our opening scene. We wanted to introduce, the girl character as vulnerable and naive and the male character as dominant and powerful.
