The document discusses how the creators of a horror/thriller genre film sequence used conventions like dark effects and screams to attract their intended audience. A questionnaire given to the audience found that many enjoyed the sequence and thought it was a horror/thriller genre, showing that the filmmakers succeeded in attracting their target audience for the genres.
2. To attract the audience of our genre, we used the typical conventions of a
Horror and perhaps a Thriller genre. For example, the use of dark affects and
screams featured at the end of our sequence is seen as conventional to the
genre of Horror.
3. QUESTIONNAIRE
Did you enjoy the sequence?
Would you want to watch the rest of the film?
Which genre do you think the sequence is?
5. Would you want to watch the rest of the film?
YES NO MAYBE
6. Which genre do you think the sequence is?
Horror Thriller Action Comedy
7. From the questionnaire you can see that we have succeeded in attracting our
audience and that many of them enjoyed the sequence and would view the
full length feature.