Q5) How did you attract/ address your audience

Q4) Who would be the audience for your media product

As stated in our planning and research, as a group, we decided to classify our thriller film opening as a 15. This decision was one of the results from the audience research commenced by us a group.

Above is a pie chart showing the results from one the questions on the questionnaire. It shows that majority of the people we asked, who enjoyed thriller films were aged between 15 and 20. This influenced us to choose '15' as a classification. In addition to this we discovered that majority of the people asked, that liked thriller conventions we used, were male. So we decided that majority of our audience would be young males aged between 15 and 20.

Typical Audience Member.

This is Daniel Flay, he is a 17 year old student who enjoys thriller movies, especially psychological thrillers. He is a huge fan of the main protagonist, Levi Hodge, so this automatically attracted his attention to Reprisal. However, Daniel was also intrigued by the wide range of codes and conventions demonstrated in our thriller film opening. In Daniel's spare time he regularly attends the cinema to see film premieres as it is a much better experience than watching it home he explained. His favourite genre of film is thriller and the films include Arlington Road, Brick, and Psycho.

Daniel Stated "I really like thriller films and absolutely love the opening sequence to Reprisal, I cannot wait until I can see the rest, watching the opening immediately give me a huge sense of eireeness. As a huge fan of thriller films I can see how the key conventions and the things I expect to see have been used such as jump cuts. I especially like the use of CCTV footage".

Q3) What kind of media insitution might distribute your media product

Q2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Key Elements of Our Thriller Opening

In our Thriller movie the key elements we are going to be using some codes and conventions to help build up suspense before the film begins.

• Fast paced quick cuts - We know that this is an element that the audience will be used to and is effective for building tension and suspense in a film.
• Mirrors - Mirrors are another commonly used convention in a thriller. The connotations of mirrors are reflection, double meanings and tricks on the audience. We are going to use mirrors in our opening to show the fractured personality of our character and to build mystery about his identity.
• Black and white CCTV footage - This will allow us to create a dark and eerie atmosphere at the same time CCTV footage has connotations of reality making the film feel more real and creepy.
• Non diegetic music - We are going to use non diegetic music to allow the audience to identify that is something not right, so that we can build suspense for them and make them aware that something bad is about to happen.

Age Classification

As part of our production we have to classify the minimum age limit to either watch our film in the cinema or to purchase it. In order to do this we had to do some research on it to gain more marks. One key website that we found useful was the British Board of film classification (BBFC) because it give us detailed information about each age classification and the what should and should not be included.

The age classification we have agreed on is '15' because on BBFC it states that a this classification could include:

• strong violence
• frequent strong language (eg 'f***').
• portrayals of sexual activity
• strong verbal references to sex
• sexual nudity
• brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
• discriminatory language or behaviour
• drug taking

But the only the element from this we are using is strong violence because of the fact that there is going to be a murder and we feel this is too serious to classify as a '12' and it would not be an '18' because we are not dwelling on the infliction of pain and injury.