Evaluation Task 5- How did you attract/address your audience?

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I had utilises this new animations online software tool. In the animation I show a interview of how I attracted and addressed my audience.

Below is the text script for the video.

1INTERVIEWER: Today we will be having a exclusive interview with the one and only Mr. err ah. Oh Mr. Oliver Christensen.

2INTERVIEWEE: Err? Hi?

3INTERVIEWER: So looking back upon your end product and the intended target audience what were the pleasures that you target audience can take from your opening sequence?

4INTERVIEWEE: We tried to adhere to intended target audiences by looking at what our audience would want. We concluded that they wanted we provided them with; A plot that is open to the audiences interpretation, and the audience would have to piece together the narative, our storyline is creepy, and puts the audience on edge. Our storyline is mysterious, and the environment seems slightly old fashioned, and would make the audience feel uncomfortable due to the unnerving extreme closeups. We figured this because our target audience is a male audience ages from 30 and upwards. 

5INTERVIEWER: Cool. So what genre have you created?

6INTERVIEWEE: We have created a media product that adhered to the conventions the subgenera of a phycological thriller. 

7INTERVIEWER: Nice. What films did you find were influential to your media product? 

8INTERVIEWEE: We thought that Dexter, Psycho, Love Object, And Attracted were influential because they explored them and conventions that we used.

9INTERVIEWER: I saw that your opening sequence was in some old looking room, where was it?

10INTERVIEWEE: Ah, thought you would like it. It was shot in a boarding house at the school. We did not only choose this because of its convenient location, but it because a bedroom would be familiar to the audience, meaning that they would be invested and help the realism, and adds mystery to the media product. The realism highlights the horror, and will allow the audience to become invested in the character.

11INTERVIEWER: All nice and everything but what is your plot line, and how could this attract your audience?

12INTERVIEWEE: Our thriller features a girl getting ready until it is revealed that the person getting the girl ready is in fact a man! This is unexpected and would not seem right to a audience, this is because a very normal task like getting ready in the morning has been turned creepy and strange. Our thriller does not spooned the audience meaning that they will have to dive deeper to find the meaning for themselves.

13INTERVIEWER: Damn! thats creepy. Tell us a bit about your characters?

14INTERVIEWEE: Our Male character has all his details hidden, but intact he is a psychopath who is incredibly careful at what he does, he is a complex individual who is unpredictable. With our female character she is meant to be dead, and we make the audience feel sympathy four her. 

15INTERVIEWER: What social groups are you appealing to?

16INTERVIEWEE: We are trying to target a mature male audience, we are doing this with several aspects of the video, and have created a complex narrative which requires experienced critical thinking that is not available from a younger audience.

17INTERVIEWER: So that music in your opening sequence, can you tell us a little about it?

18INTERVIEWEE: Yeah our non diegetic soundtrack adds to the ambience of the whole sequence, and the increasing tempo increases to add tension to set up the audience to know that she is not doing the makeup herself. The name of the non diegetic soundtrack the we used is “it hurts to say goodbye”, this actually matches our style, and plot line, because it is about a guy who cannot say goodbye to his dead sister. 

19INTERVIEWER: I saw that you utilised titles in your sequence, you had some pretty big names up there tell us a little about it.

20INTERVIEWEE: We started off with the studio name, this is because the name of the media institution is meant to have traditional connotations, and conventions. Our famous actors will help to attract a audience and will make people want to go and see the film. 

21INTERVIEWER: That perfect editing, tell us how you achieved it?

22INTERVIEWEE: Thats a trade secret….. Ok I will tell you. We used a rhythm that we would call over in our head ’123 and cut’, and repeat ‘123, and cut’, if you look over the sequence again you will see this pace reflecting upon the sequence. We tried to achieve a smooth cut from event to event by making the video cut on action, and ensuring that the cuts were butter smooth. We kept fancy transitions, and effects out of a video to give it a raw appearance that would look old, like the time that it is set in, to attract a older audience.