additions to question 4

We planned our film concidering different aspects and conventions of the typical slasher film, to try to engage our target audience. Our target audience (teenage male slasher fans) would like the fact that the killer is the same age range as them, so they might be able to relate to him and have a better understanding of how he feels and thinks. They will also enjoy the fact that this is a slasher film with the conventions of a knife and a mask as a lot of slasher films share these conventions. They would be looking to see someone being hunted down and killed, which is what a lot of slasher films are based around, and this is what our film is based on.

We targeted a particular age and gender by researching what kind of person enjoys slasher films by looking on the IMBd website at the user ratings section for the top slasher films. This helped us a lot as it helped us decide what kind of conventions to use.

We shot the film mostly inside of a caravan as the female character (the mother) is poor and therefore cannot afford to live in a house and look after her baby son. The props we used were a knife, clown toy and a clown mask. We chose for the killer to have a knife as it is probably the most accessible weapon for someone who has little or no money. We chose to have the mother play with a clown toy to entertain the son as it shows she doesn't have much money for toys for her son, and it would go well with the killer making a clown mask later on in the film. We decided that the killer would be wearing a clown mask as the mother used to play with a clown toy to entertain him, she left this toy with him when she abandoned him in the caravan, so when he grew up, this inspired him to create the clown mask as a disguise and kill his mother who left him to die. We think that the location and the props that we used will engage the target audience as it shows that the film is a slasher film, and they help us to understand the story a lot better. This conforms to conventions as the audience can clearly tell that the film is a slasher film, most slasher films have a weapon which is like a knife, too.

The casting of our threat and victim engage the audience as the threat, is a teenage male. During the research that Jake and I did, we found that teenage males are the people that mostly watch slasher films. This will engage the target audience as they will be able to relate to the killer, possibly being able to tell how he feels and thinks. The casting of the victim engages the target audience as it portrays the swiftly growing problem of teenage pregnancy. This is so that the film can relate to current affairs, this also makes the story more believable.

Our title sequence will engage our audience as it follows the typical conventions of slasher title sequences, it has the logo for the production company, when the names of the cast come to screen, it shows only the names, much like the slasher film 'A nightmare on Elm street'.

The music in our final film will engage the audience as it gives the film an eery feel, and this also is a convention of slasher films that the target audience will be familiar with and will be looking for.