Evaluation Q5

How did you attract your Audience?

The ways in which we addressed the audience and made the slasher film appealing and worth while to watch was that we aimed it at a certain specific target group which was from the age group of 15-24 and we chose this group because we felt that it would benefit the films marketisation. We feel that our film opening interacts with the audience through the various different mise-en-scene aspects and the effects with editing and sound to emphasis the clips on screen.

Facebook
We used various different techniques to address them, one of the ways was through Facebook, use used this to promote the viewings of our slasher opening though the many hundreds of our friends on the social networking site. This was a good and key way to show people the work that we had done and to get feedback from our close friends and to then get their ideas on how to make better adaptations to make the film opening look more aesthetically pleasing.

Youtube

Another way we achieved the audience influence and interaction was via Youtube and posting the videos on there, this was the main way we got our audience feedback where by when the videos got posted then people commented on the videos with their thoughts and ideas for us on how to again make improvements and to give positives to the good parts of the film opening.

Casting, Setting
The casting that were used in our film opening were of a similar age to the ones that we aimed our film opening at, this means that the audience can relate to the characters in terms of feelings and actions as to what they do in the film opening, Also the setting was an element which made the audience relate due to it being set in the north of england where most of the friends on Facebook and Youtube will know of and can tell that it is set in the local area which will make it appeal to them, Also when considering our target audience the age range for that will understand more if the characters are of a similar age.

Male Gaze and Theories
The theory of the Male Gaze was that of Laura Mulvey and that was focussed on how the girls body just becomes objectified in the slasher film and how it was only there for the film to appeal to men only because of the women wearing revealing clothes, however in ours we could not use nudity and lots of sex appeal so we had our scream queen dressed up in skinny jeans. Also another theory which was shown in our film opening was the theory of Levi Strauss which was the theory of Binary Opposites where by the scream queen and the final girl were opposites with what they did and how they acted and what they looked like. Also the theory of Bathes and Narrative enigma was used in our film opening too which brought out a better out look for the film opening.