How did we attract our audience?

We attracted our audience by making the protagonist relatable to the audience. This would bring more thrill to the sequence and will enforce the audience’s expectations of a typical movie thriller. In broken developments we represented social class through technologies and costumes of each character. For example the use of old school cameras by the antagonist (me) highlighted my isolation from the world, how I was almost in my own world. Nowadays not many people use film cameras to photograph; instead they use digital cameras to gain high quality. As well as this, Laura (the protagonist) was wearing a fairly modern barbour jacket, and jeans; which is very stereotypical as that is what most girls of our age and generation would wear out. There is no dialogue in the opening sequence; this is done so that later on in the actual film, the accents of the characters will show where they are from etc. This will then give the audience an idea of where the sequence is set (South East England). Age is represented through the ages of the characters. Within Broken Developments, the characters ages are not blurted out straight away, they are kept secret and will reveal themselves as the sequence prevails. For example filming laura leaving college etc.The age of the characters, especially Laura; should relate the the audience and this should give them the experience of more thrill due to the age of the character, and the age of the audience themselves. A good example of this would be The Crash. This television show is aimed at young adults and teenagers that can drive or have friends that can do so. By using young characters, the same age as those watching; bbc make the programme much more realistic, and leave the audience putting themselves in the position of those on the show. Gender is a similar in this aspect. The fact that we kept to the codes and conventions of classic thriller films by keeping a male antagonist and a female protagonist will attract both sides of the audience, as females are more innocent acting and are stereo typically the victims in thriller films; and males are strong and scary and are usually the villain or criminal. The use of these representations will attract the audience by making them feel as though they are in the same position as Laura McClean or Charlie Boyden. Finally, the use of Film4 as our sponcer will also attract our wide target audience as it is a low budget institution but is still well known for producing good and popular films

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The Crash, BBC3