Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience? (Connor Snell)

The target audience for 'Gone' is both men and women aged 15-45.

Our film genre falls into thriller/horror and is based around the idea of children going missing because of a sinister stimulus. A common theme in modern horrors is the idea of children going missing as this is one of the main things parents fear in society. Therefore we chose to base our horror on this as most adults can relate to this narrative. Below are modern examples of posters with missing children on them.

From looking at results about who watch horror films such as Insidious and The Woman in Black (males and females between the ages 15 and 40) I can conclude that our film will engage a wide audience as nearly all groups of people like watching horrors.

Another reason why people will watch our film is because horrors give a buzz to the audience in the form of a jump scare. Many people are fond of this and seek this feeling of true fear and creepiness. Also, missing people is a big problem that we have in modern society because it's the notion of not knowing where someone is or what could have happened to them. 

The disjointed narrative structure of our horror film appeals to the audience as it offers an alternative to stereo typically horror plots. This is shown in our opening sequence in the form of a flash back/forward.

The screenshot above shows the lack of events which are taken place in chronological order which is usually what is shown in a horror movie. This is because before we got to 1:52 we are shown a flash forward of what happens in the film. This would attract the audience to watch our film as this would show a new angle of showing a horror film.

This screenshot represents the creepiness of our film. The fact that the character in the image is unidentifiable as you cannot see their face or any other features leaves lots of enigma which people would want to find out more about

Examples of our audience from feedback

As a section of question 5 I wanted to talk about the feedback that we received about our film 'Gone'. As a result of this, I decided to create a survey monkey and let people watch our opening sequence and then answer questions which we wanted to find out the answers to.

The results of the questions can be shown in the pie charts below and I deem these not only to be good feedback, but another thing that I can learn from.

The main ages of the respondents were 17/18.

Was the genre easy to identify? 80% of respondents said yes.

Did the films show good conventions for the genre? 70% of respondents said yes.

Would you watch the full-length feature film? 60% of respondents said yes.

Did you get confused at any point? 60% of respondents said yes.