QUESTION FIVE

QUESTION FIVE: HOW DID YOU ATTRACT \ ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?!

By watching thriller films and various different thriller opening sequences prior to the initial planning stages of my own opening sequence; i then had a much clearer idea of what attracts me to watching a thriller film and then ensured i included this when i made my own opening sequence. This overall helped massively with my understanding of what goes into making a thriller opening sequence that was going to be engaging for my audience to watch. I feel although through following typical codes and conventions of the genre; we helped to attract and address the audience's who are already were generally interested in thriller films.

- SUSPENSE \ TENSION:

One way i found was essential to attracting and addressing my audience particularly when creating an opening sequence that fitted into the 'thriller genre' was ensuring that i created and maintained suspense and tension throughout the duration of the opening sequence. By creating suspense an tension i am more likely to capture my audience's full attention, One way we built suspense and tension was through the use of sound; our music is quite dramatic and leaves the audience on edge as it feels although it leading up to something - overall helping in keeping them fully engaged in our opening sequence.Opening sequence's often tend to keep things a secret; this is done by withholding information. We did this by not really making it explicit how our character got out of the situation, how long they had been there for and how they escaped - helping to attract and engage our audience; this is as they'll have unanswered questions; by keeping some parts of the plot a mystery helping this then helps to keep the audience’s full attention and they will be overall more likely to continue to watch the opening sequence.

- THE SUBJECT MATTER: 

we picked a subject which has already proven to attract audience's; TV shows that have huge followings  such as 'Pretty little liars'  follow a similar story line so we knew that as millions of people have already enjoyed this TV show ( which does not belong to the thriller genre) so we knew that people who have \ had an interest in the story line of a 'missing' person may then also have an interest in our thriller opening sequence. 
So when creating our opening sequence we already had a clear view that people would be inclined to watch it - this research was important when deciding our target audience. 

-FURTHER RESEARCH:

i conducted further research, but this time; regarding how many people following my opening sequence would continue to watch my opening sequence and what in particularly stood out to them in terms of attracting and engaging them. Here are the results:

feedback for question five. from Abbiblundell

-OVERALL

Overall, i feel although i both attracted and engaged my audience throughout my opening sequence which helped to contribute to ensuring i appeal to a wide range of audiences - and particularly those who are already a fan of the thriller genre. Through using music which allowed me to build tension and help set the atmosphere i made sure my audience continued to keep there full attention of my opening sequence.