CCR2- how does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

 

Our target audience is mainly for people between 20-40yrs old. A thriller for younger adults about relationships and family which we feel is something these target group will be able to relate too. Many of the concepts we use such as divorce, maturing, children and marriage and how too, deal would be something explored later in the film, and something probably more interesting for people  in the age range. Blummer's and Katz gratification theory suggests that audience choose films they think would suit them best depending on their likes/dislikes, interests/disinterests and what they feel would give them the most dopamine too suffice for the 1.5/2 hours they'll spend watching the film. 

To engage our audience we have create a few very suspenseful moments too entertain the audience as-well as to keep them interested for the remainder of the film after the sequence. I reflected this in our movie poster, the silhouette of a woman with the club behind her. however seeing this image it could be interpreted in many ways, much like a-lot of our sequence. keeping an audience in the dark is one of the ways too create hype/attention around your product, it gets people talking about theories, plot etc. which is why I preferred having a movie poster that is unspecified and allusive.

One moment in particular in our sequence, is when the woman is staring through the cafe window at her husband and son and as she turns and the shot changes they disappear.  this is to leave as many mysterious as possible at the start. are they really there ? is she imagining ? is she remembering ? there is no specific answer automatically and the audience must be aware for the rest of the film to get the answer. 

Similarly in the Martin Scorsese film Shudder Island, many of the shots are inconsistent, small hints to the reader of the real story. and we tried to incorporate this into ur piece. Here in this scene from the film, the woman drinks from a glass of water which is empty. and she also never picks up the glass. and the glass moves from her left too her right in-between shots. subtly hinting too the audience that something isn't quite right with the scene, or character.

 

The idea of an imperfect marriage with a mistress is often explored in thriller adding stakes and a reason for one of the antagonists too do something or keep a secret etc. 

Although not a huge thing, it creates tension within the plot and an underlying sense of threat permanently wherever there is a confrontation between the two spouses. 

However even before this first encounter we have the main antagonist showing raw emotion as she bangs her hands off her steering wheel and screaming. 

She does this after clearly seeing something on her phone that distresses her.  more questions are being asked than being answered and as she leave the car directly after this the audience wonder whether or not they will find out what made her scream and shout in that way. 

our more thrilling shots of a girl chained up at the end of our piece. these showed some aftermath of the opening scene, it gave more insight into the plot and earlier scenes showed. We also used more dramatic lighting, pitch dark with a red strobe to make a complete u-turn on the shots we had previously used. now the film takes a darker turn and gives some answers too what the wife was thinking earlier in the piece.