5. How did you attract/address your audience?

When planning the film, we didn't have a specific audience in mind, only that sixth formers were likely to watch it, however as we started filming, we realised that it was very specific to the school and therefore, others from other schools would not understand the 'inside joke'.

Shots:

• At the start of the film we kept a black screen and faded the titles in, a popular technique used in horrors or thrillers. It creates suspense and excitement for what is about to happen.

• A lot of the shots include only the feeting, walking past, towards or with the camera. This creates the feeling of the unknown. The audience doesn't know who this person is, until they ascend the stairs, and the need to know who or what this person is doing, captures the audience and makes them carry on watching.
  

Music:

• At the start, very ominous music is used, this long ongoing note creates a feeling on nerverending, creating a tense mood, waiting for something to happen.
• We kept the sounds from the feet jumping down as we wanted this to contrast with the long notes beforehand. This sudden sounds was meant to shock the audience and create suspense.
• Accents are used throughout to add to the mysterious atmosphere and draw the audience in through their ears, waiting to hear what happens next.
• The music used during the run is supposed to mimick the upbeat feelng of adrenaline and pace when being caught. The music is known by many and it keeps people watching as it is a song liked my many, whilst still fitting with the action.

Editing:

• We used a couple of shots and edited them in Black and White. This was to create the effect of CCTV cameras. This addresses the situation that everyone knows about, that we are always being watched. This also adds to the fact that the character is possibly not going to get away with their sneaking around and they are waiting for them to be caught. This adds a creepy element to the film that people enjoy watching.
• Many of the shots during the fast music were edited together with short cuts. This use of shorter cuts and more clips was to emphasise the haste and feeling of getting away, that excites the audience and creates tension. The repetition of the same clip from different angles, POV, CCTV and real CUs of the face make the audience slightly confused and feel as if they had been running away from the person. The POV includes the viewer, showing that they aren't just watching a thriller, but taking part in one.
• At the end of the film, we editted in some outtakes as we felt people should see how we create the film and share the hilarity we felt when creating it. This makes the thriller end of a humorours note, making an enjoyable film.

Casting:

• As we couldn't find any actors free when we were free for filming, we chose to use myself and a friend who had some free time from filming their own film. I wrote the script in about 5 minutes, however it changed as we acted it out as it felt quite forced. We wanted this to be a funny scene and our attempts at speaking very seriously about a very unserious matter was supposed to be quite funny, though most of the time we couldn't stop laughing ourselves. We wanted to seem very over-dramatic and the script allowed for this. This scene attracted the sense of humour from the audience ast hey would have to laugh at the silliness of the situation.