Friday 31 March 2017

Evaluation, question 5- Who did you attract/ address your audience

Genre pleasures-

As a film viewer, many people have particular genres that they most enjoy. Each genre follows a set that's within it's expectations. For example, if a consumer particularly enjoyed watching romantic comedies, they would enter the film expecting something light-hearted yet touching emotions with a happy ending. If however, someone likes thrillers, the expect elements of suspense with a complex plot and, most likely, an unpleasant ending as most thrillers are of the dystopian genre. Psychological thrillers are particularly confusing creating a complex maze an intelligent audience finds pleasure in following and the urban conventions add a gritty harshness to the film appealing to, particularly, a younger audience.

Our film is of the thriller genre, specifically an urban, psychological thriller. This appeals to a variety of people due to the popularity of the genre and relates to other popular films containing similar elements such as our main influence “The Disappearance Of Alice Creed”. Our thriller has a gritty aesthetic with elements of high tension appealing to a thrill seeking audience, young adults are attracted to this in particular.

Representational pleasures-

Our thriller contains a weak, female prey presenting women as vulnerable and delicate, we do, however, contrast this with a lead female kidnapper. It’s rather unusual for a thriller to contain a strong female lead as the majority of the market is male dominated. This gives our media product a space making it individual attracting a rather niche audience. Our representations add the element of individuality to our film attracting a wider audience.

Young females may fear the film more due to the similarities they're likely to find between themselves and our main character "Eva". This makes Eva the character a female audience will mostly identify with and therefore they will empathise with her more in what's to come. The expectations of the thriller would most likely be for it to be male dominated so the twist hooks the audience through defying stereotypes and expectations.

1 comment:

  1. Discusses a narrow range of pleasures, although includes some references to other thrillers to support the discussion.

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