attracting the audience media

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR

AUDIENCE?

I attracted my audience by using the conventions I found whilst researching my thrillers, such as leaving the villain a mystery such as in The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995) where the identity is kept a secret all the way through, until the very end.

I found that the thrillers I researched often had the thrill of the chase within them, along with a problem that needs to be faced by the main character, which is something that I wanted to put within my product.

Within my thriller, I also set up the problem with the female character looking at the paper, which says ‘They know’, setting up the problem of what that character is going to do because someone knows something that threatens her, as she shows a startled reaction to it, keeping the audience engaged with the thriller, as I tried to keep to the conventions of real media products that I researched.

I also wanted to attract my audience by involving mystery and not giving away too many clues to the narrative, giving the thriller a narrative enigma, so the audience would want to keep watching my thriller because of questions that needed to be answered.

I also wanted to attract them by using a variety of interesting locations to tell the narrative. I did this by showing places like the Lake District, which stood in for Scotland as a location.