2. Age and gender
Our target audience for our movie was mainly male teenagers
due to the violent nature of the film. Males tend to enjoy this
more, although it is not narrowed down to just this specific
audience as some females also enjoy the thrill of being scared
and on edge whilst watching a movie. The audience can identify
with the narrative of the film as it is a realistic horror unlike
famous horrors with monsters and ghosts in such as Dracula or
The thing. It allows them to feel that extra bit scared knowing
that it could actually happen, like movies such as Eden lake
which has a group of boys similar age to ours.
3. Terrifying points
The point in the movie that may cause the audience
to become scared could be the scream as the film
title is announced. It is a typical horror movie sound
effect and so we thought including this would add a
more scary aspect into our film. The low key lighting
later in the movie could cause the audience to feel
tense, as well as the fact that we cant see the killers
face for the majority of the film.
4. Audience
When the group is young, the audience is made to
feel sympathy for the main character because he is
being bullied. As the film progresses and this
character then changes into the murderer, we feel
the audience will change their views towards him.
This allows the audience to feel a range of emotions
in the movie other than just being scared.
5. Audience feedback
A lot of good constructive criticism has been given and also a
couple of compliments. A lot of people said that we used a good set
of camera angles, we feel we used some but not as good as we
could have so when we go to shoot the next part we will be using
more. Someone also said the scene wasn't "scary" or didn't fit the
convention, we also agree because the next scene is the part that
fits this but we know that this should have happened all the way
through. We were advised by someone to use Live Type for our
titles to improve them. Others said the titles were good I am happy
with the titles and think they are very good at linking in with the
horror genre, they particularly liked the production logo which was
cleverly created by one of our group members using Photoshop.
Also people have commented on the good use of sound we have on
our opening sequence, for example when the character shuts the
door we have used a door sound effect which also sounds creepy.
At one point in the opening sequence the camera focus goes
blurred we used this to try to hide the identity of the boy and gives
an unsettled feel to the scene. People commented on this but it was
put there for a reason although i understand why people have
spoken about this.
