How did you attract your audience?

We attracted our audience by making the protagonist fairly relatable. This, in retrospect, would bring more thrill to the audience and will enforce their expectations and connotations of a typical thriller movie. In Broken developments we represented social class via the technologies and costume of each of the characters. For example, the use of old cameras by Charlie (the antagonist) highlights his isolation from the world and how he never really goes out. Nowadays, not many people would use film camera to take photos, instead they would use digital to gain high quality photographs, which are easily deleted or transferred. Also, Laura (the protagonist) is wearing fairly modern clothing such as a Barbour jacket and jeans, which is worn by many girls in their teens. Although there isn’t any dialogue in the opening sequence, later on in the actual film the accents of the characters will show the regional identity. This will underline the location of the thriller (South East England).  Age is represented through the obvious ages of the characters. Within Broken Developments, the character’s ages will become more and more obvious with locations such as their college, home life and social life (or lack of). The age of the characters (especially Laura) should relate to the audience and they should experience more thrill and be more scared due to the age of the character. For example, The Crash (a television show) is aimed at young adults and teenagers. By using characters with ages close to the target audience makes the program more believable and closer to home. Gender is similar in this aspect. The fact that we have kept to classic conventions of a thriller of a female protagonist and a male antagonist it would attract the audience as females are more innocent and are stereotypically the victims of such crimes. The use of these representations should attract the audience more by making them feel uneasy about their current surroundings. Not to lull them into a false sense of security in everyday life but to keep them on edge and to keep them thinking “what if that were to happen to me”. The use of Film4 will also attract our target audience as it is a low budget institution and would not be too demanding or complex.

 The Crash - BBC3