OUR TARGET AUDIENCE

For the lonely road

GENDER

The typical film noir is usually a hard boiled

detective based story where there is a lot of crime

based content. This would be more appealing to

males stereotypically as it contains violence,

scenes of a sexual nature and crime. Our target

audience is typically males as we have focused on

these three features and made it a priority that

there is femme fatale to attract male attention.

AGEFilm noir is often depicted as an ‘artsy’ genre due to the depth of

cinematography. The audience tend to be more of a mature, older group

of people due to the amount of innuendos used during dialogue that

might not be grasped by less mature people. This in mind, the age we

decided to target was 30-60 year olds (middle aged men).

WHAT OTHER FILMS ARE SIMILAR TO OUR SEQUENCE AND WHO DO THEY APPEAL TO?

Our sequence has the main theme of the

hard boiled detective investigating a crime,

this is also the main theme of many film noir

films due to it being a key convention, The Big

Combo (1955) has a similar plot to our

sequence mainly because of one of the main

themes being the hard boiled detective trying

to investigate a crime, it also uses the femme

fatal factor which is also used in our sequence

, the big combo mainly appeals to the male

section of the audience , mainly because of

the crime factor that is shown in the film and

the use of the femme fatal to attract more

men , the age range of this film ranges from

30-60 year olds , this is because film noir films

are genuinely sophisticated films with a

intriguing plot.

HOW DID WE ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

Because our target audience was 30-60 year old males ( middle age men ) ,

we decided to use some of the more well known classic factors of film noir in

our sequence , we used the theme of crime / murder because we knew that

this theme was one of the main contributing factors that the male audience

enjoy , we also used a small chase scene to add a small piece of action which

appeals towards the male side of the audience , the use of close up shots on

the killer emphasizes the since of danger which links in well with the action ,

we also used the theme of mystery which will keep the audience intrigued and

interested in what happens next , we did this at the end of the chase scene

between ellie and the killer , the sense of mystery was created by the screen

cutting to black (post production), during the detective and informer scene a

series of point of view shots combined with the shot reverse shot technique to

show the audience the point of perspective of both the detective and the

informer during the exchange scene ,some match on action shots are also

used on the money and the information to show the audience that these

objects are the main point of focus.

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

We received feedback and productive criticism

from our audience and we were pleased with the

positive feedback and we used this effectively to

improve our final media product ( opening sequence)

, we also managed to correct any errors that were

pointed out by the audience ,overall we were pleased

with our final sequence .