How did you attract/address your audience?

I would say one of our best selling points was the settings we used for our scenes. The first scene is in the garage. We feel this set the scene as dark and frightful signifying it was a dream. It helps grab the audiences attention straight away with the garage door being smashed closed. We feel the garage door closing sets the scene displaying something bad is about to happen. The drug deal was another setting which grabbed the attention of viewers many saying after viewing the opening it helped make it look realistic. It was shot in a deserted tunnel which was a dark scene like in the garage. The tunnel enhanced our opening making it look realistic this was one of our best unique selling points.
As a group we feel the dream was another selling point of our opening scene. This is because it created a sense of confusion with the audience. It made them want to watch on and was the narrative enigma in the opening. With Sean waking up it helped signify it was a nightmare but what it didn't tell us was what it was all about

We felt the pace of our opening scene helped the audience not differ off while watching. The titles used were quick and had pace. This helped the opening scene feel like a Drama film. We tried to make the titles as minimalist as possible. The whole reason behind this was to make the audience concentrate on the action.

We believe showing the end at the beginning was a good thing as it helped us attract the age group we chose. This was very much the case for the film 'Memento' which showed the ending at the beginning of the film. This was our pulling point that helped us reach out to the younger audiences. As an audience you want to be engaged from the offset and we feel this is what we have done with the dream scene. Social realism is another way of attracting young audiences. Many British film makers have taken advantage of this for instance 'This is England'. As a group we also feel our authentic location would help us get better reviews for our film. Personally I feel the tunnel scene was very realistic and capturing.

Overall we got around 10 people to view our film to give us feedback. We got the audience from our Common room in the school. After viewing the opening scene we asked them to fill out our questionnaire which told us a lot about where we could improve and what we did well.