Age: Our film will aim to target adults and teenagers, because it is a Thriller, which is popular with an older audience, but also features a young protagonist which will attract a teenage audience.
Gender: We hope that it will appeal to both male and female because the genre is typically popular with a male audience. However, the use of a female main character will appeal to females, similarly to programmes such as 'Hunted'.
We will engage our spectators using different techniques. It uses ellipses as it misses out 12 years of the girl's life, which will leave the audience wondering what has happened to her character in that time. We will also present Barthes' enigma code as our opening presents questions to the audience for example; Why was she kidnapped? Who was her kidnapper?
We will use objective camera work to show an unbiased view of the situation which creates more mystery, it is also Restricted Narration as the spectator knows less then the character, for example the spectator does not know the identity of the kidnapper while the girl does. This builds suspense and will also create shock when the enigma is solved.
perhaps you can find some original research to show what sorts of films particular genders or ages prefer or find out the demographics for particular types of thriller film. there is alot of research out there into this type of thing and its often very visual.
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