Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audiences? (Script)

Uses and Gratifications Theory- a media product has to fulfil specific pleasure to its audience (Bulmer & Katz 1974)

-Identity: main character is a teenage boy in which matches our target audience as it is relatable to them

-Entertain: there is a tension build-up which leads to climatic ending which brings escapism to the audience, focusing their minds on the plot and forget their worries temporarily.

-Social Interaction: the opening sequence creates a debate whether who killed the character or how he was killed, this produced a topic of conversation between other people.

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Settings: typical middle-class house which appeal to our target audience of teenagers as they all still live in the same house with their parents and for a teenage boy being home alone while parents are on vacation are quite common, making it relatable to the audience.

Narrative: The story is about a violent murder of a teenage boy in his own home, with the teenage boy lying dead being the main and only visible character in the opening sequence. We also used other narrative devices such as the a pile of unopened letters to suggests that time has passed as well as the non-diegetic sound of mom getting worried after her first call, also suggests that time has passed.

We aim to appeal our thriller opening sequence to late teenagers as they can relate to the character and show them that this could happen to any of them.

We didn't include any music in order for the audience to focus the most on the answerphone messages and the music may interrupt it.

We put in the credit titles so that the audience may be able to identify the actor/actress or director that they like, in which attract the audience to come see the full film.

We decided to use a 1-shot sequence to prevent the interaction between the audience and the mise-en-scene around the house from being distracted, this also shows a specific style in which is new and may attract new audiences

Thriller has its own specific convention, one of which is tension building and climatic ending. We achieved this in our thriller by using variety of answerphone messages to give the impression that he haven't been replying lately, hinting something may have happened to him. We also used the mies-en-scene around the house showing stuff being dirty and out of place, suggesting that the house has not been taken care of for a period of time. This builds the tension for the last climatic scene, showing the dead body on the bed in which is a convention of thrillers.