Evaluation Question 5

How does your opening sequence appeal to your target audience?

The chosen genre for our opening sequence is physiological thriller, the target audience for this genre is generally not young children, as they might find the events of the films disturbing and frightening and the storylines too complex to understand fully. Making the genre more appealing to them. Our sequence will appeal to our target audience because it has everything that would intrigue someone who likes psychological thrillers. We use a range of locations for filming that would frequently pop up in a lot of films in this genre for example dark alleys and grave yards. This would make our Film appeal to the target audience as it would meet the criteria to make it a psychological thriller.

How is it relevant to them?

Our opening sequence will be relevant to our target audience who will be young adults and this will be relevant to them because of the video games that they play and the music they listen too. This will effect what they watch. We have made this film relevant by taking into consideration the wants and needs of someone who likes these films and we have look at other physiological thrillers to see what they have and what we can put into ours.

What messages or values are you trying to communicate to your target audience?

One of our hidden messages is karma. Because our main character gets haunted by the fact he kills his friend he thinks he is being followed all the time, he feels like he is never alone and his life has turned unbearable. This is karma for killing his best friend. Karma is a belief in life that we wanted to portray in our film.  Also there is a message about how important friends are. I know this is a broad message but it shows that once he has killed his friend, though he is schizophrenic and feels like he is never alone. He happens to be a very lonely person and has none to talk to once his friend is dead. This would show to the viewer about how important friends and family are and how close you should keep them.