How did/would we attract the audience

The way in which we hope to capture the audience is from the creation of atmosphere created by music, which was called Spitfire by The Prodigy. The camera angles, which included crane shots, close ups, and quick snappy shots, and the black and white contrast that was sudden when the music kicked in may be another technique in which we may capture the audiences attention. I also find that our opening is more like a trailer at times because its very quick with short shots and doesn't give too much away.

How does our media product represent particular social groups and who would the directed audience be?

Social Groups that we represented was the twenty-first century teenage individuals that drink, we wanted this group as people can relate to same situations, so our film can either make awareness or just be a hard hitting opening. I also believe that we used this social group because it would be easier for us to play a similar age character of ourselves. The reason for why it would be hard hitting is that the story of the opening is a possible situation in today's society.

The audience that we are directing to is one who likes thriller/horrors genre's, this is mainly people of late teenagers (15+) and onwards, but its also depending on those who like this style. But the pleasure we are trying to provide is one that is hard hitting as the characters are young, what is being shown is a possibility to reality, and so this is more likely to draw them in. I am pretty confident that we have succeeded this as ours could be a portrayal of reality, and because of the black and white contrast colour and the fast paced speed in the woods, it is most likely to be successful.

Three film openings

The three film openings that i watched were:






The Hole






The Blair Witch Project







Shrooms




All three of these films helped us in there own way, but the best one for us was The Hole as it didn't give away much, it was based in the woods, not much speech and a great build of tension and atmosphere. Yes the other three were based in the woods, but it didn't have that magic that The Hole did with the main character struggling to run out of the woods as if she has been drugged and attacked, and with posters and leaflets of the four characters including her which were infact posters explaing they were missing, this instantly would draw the audiences attention, and that's the magic we wanted.

So we wanted the first person view and jerked camera shots. e.g. The actors holding the camera whilst running. from The Blair Witch Project, the gore and panning camera shots through the tree's and other woodland shrubery from Shrooms, and the atmospheric scenery from The Hole.