The audience of my media product would be teenagers the reason for this is because the protagonists in the film are all teenagers which the younger audience would be able to relate themselves too. As the film is set in a school every teenager watching it will be able to relate themselves too it especially for the hatred of a teacher which many students experience in their adolescence. The characters are also stereotypically youthful teenage characters which many teenagers try and relate themselves too.
In our opening we used intertextual references such as the names of the characters and the weapon of choice. We decided like the killer in scream our villain would use the same weapon for every death this was so people who enjoyed scream may be attracted to our film too. Other intertextual references we had included the names of our characters we decided to use names of other characters from different horror films such as Sydney from scream and Dr.Karloff the actor who plays Frankenstein.
We didn't really have any contemporary issues in our production however we did include the theme of power and anger, when Dr.Karloff see's the note ' I hate Dr.Karloff' his anger floods out and he kills Laura.
After a small group of people watched our opening we were able to receive feedback on it filled with both strengths and weaknesses however we couldnt do alot with the feedback as our film had not been finished and finally edited so we decided to focus on the weaknesses and tweak our film to make it more appealing to the audience, many of the strenths were similar for example 'shots are kept steady and clear' and 'it should be a good film once it's finished' the encouraged us to complete our work to a good quality to entice the audience with our opening.
We knew that our opening had to be interesting and capture the viewers attention this was so we could hook our target audience, we managed to do this by engaging with the audience with the conventions, and interesting characters such as Dr. Karloff.
