Deniz Osman AS Media

Q5)How did you address your audience?

In the preliminary task we mainly addressed our audience by the choice of props and wardrobe. Our audience would have watched our production for the era, the storyline and for the history it was set in. For example we made sure that the furniture we had fitted our era, we chose to include barley twist furniture with a gramophone which made it realistic to the audience watching. We also made sure the young lady had pearls, and expensive clothes showing her wealth which could be attractive for target audience. The audience watching our production would be an older audience as they are more interested the history which the production set and I also believe that people interested in mafia films would like to watch it as it has a different storyline when compared with normal psychological films.
We also addressed our audience with the camera angles as we had shots of the furniture around the house. There was a close up of the vintage phone and gramophone to show the audience the time periods its in. We included those particular shots so that the audience which chose to watch the film for the history would have a ‘taste’ of it.

Our main task addresses its young audience also with the wardrobe and the Mise En Scene. For example the tracksuits and the jeans the girls had on appealed to the audience as the young audience wears similar clothing because of there age and because of the trend of that particular type of clothing. We chose to do this to make the audience imagine themselves in the same situation as they are at similar ages and that they look at life in a comparable way. I believe the clothing and the choice of language draws the audience in, as the girls speeches were informal, casual and more relaxed when compared to the dialogues between older characters in other films. We wanted the audience to feel comfortable when watching our production so that the audience can identify themselves within the characters, as its relevant to their life styles so they can relate to the situation that the two girls are in. Also another way that Torment pulls its audience to it is that it shows a relationship of two close friends which the audience can recount back to themselves.
The music we chose was good to use as there was no copyright issues with it, I combined two music together building up more tension as they worked well together. There was silence in some areas which made our audience want to know the reason for it , also making them look for something ‘jumpy’ as they are there to be ‘excited’ and to be keep amused. There is an alarm sound in one part of our production, this makes the audience look for something tense.
We made sure that we used more camera angles so that its more interesting to our audience. Younger audience likes catchy shots so we included shots from different angles, for example we had a shot from the girls back as she was walking backwards scared. This was a powerful shot as the audience expected something bad to happen as it gave a feeling of being watched by the mysterious character.
When planning our productions I thought about our targeted audience so that we addressed the correct viewers by the choice of our Mise en scene, camera work , music and dialogue.