Who would be the audience for you media product?

We agreed right from the start that we wanted our thriller opening to appeal to young adults as we believe that we can relate best to them, giving us an advantage in knowing what they would want and things that would attract them. We decided on the audience ages between 15 and 24. This would give us enough room to include key things that would be looked at as mature for our age, or then again immature. We would appeal to both male and female audiences. We understand that our thriller would appeal to older audiences but we believe that this would be the minority of the viewers hence why we predominately are making this for a younger audience in key with our own age group. People who like and are interested in films such as Panic Room or The Book Of Eli should be interested in ours.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I believe we attracted and addressed our audience in a number of whys. A realistic location combined with a day to day job and guy as the victim added to giving our opening realism and suspense. Using voyeurism is always a good way to get the audience hooked and involved and i think we did this well.
The music was effective at drawing the audience in and the results from a survey we took whilst screening the rough edit told us that everyone thought the music was 'Good' or 'Effective'. This made us proud to keep the music we had made to use in our soundtrack as we knew that it did appeal to our audience.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We used a lot of different technologies in the making of our thriller opening such as filming camera, tripod, IMac Pro, and IMovie. Using these have helped to increase my knowledge and realise all the different aspects of film making and what i need to use to be successful in doing so. I have enjoyed learning about these products particularly the editing software on the IMac. I used the filming camera and tripod whilst filming at our location, learning how the tripod moves around and keeps the camera straight and motionless. I then moved onto the editing of our filming and found that using a IMac Pro was the best option with its successful and easy to use software. I did have a glimpse at the 'Garage Band' software as we made our own soundtrack and although i have used this before it was good to be refreshed with it and seeing it on a IMac was great. IMovie was our chosen editing software on the Mac. It was straightforward and quite easy to use and understand. I now feel entirely comfortable to go ahead and use it in further editing.


Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 


I feel my knowledge has become a lot stronger since my preliminary task and my confidence has risen dramatically. Going into the preliminary i would not of known much at all about the tripod or editing software on the Mac, i now feel fully comfortable and able to use all the technologies and equipment for any future tasks and feel my development has been a strong gain and i am looking forward to using the skills i have learnt in further tasks.