Evaluation - Question 6 How did you attract/address your audience (video/blog entry)

I believe that we have successfully created a product that will appeal to our chosen audience, as the feedback received was mostly positive. In our planning we wanted to go with a direction for the narrative that would challenge our viewers mind and would stimulate them to address and contemplate on the serious issues that are being dealt with in the opening sequence. Our decision to use actors of the same age as our characters was also pertinent as it helped audiences to slip more freely into the suspension of disbelief. The locations we felt were akin to those spaces that other teenagers would find themselves in thus making the space of our opening sequence another home to the audience. The responses were very positive regarding the technical aspects of editing and mixing of sound as we continuously interchanged from two distinctively contrasting melodies. Some audiences did not manage to follow the purpose of the flashback scenes and our use of cross cutting left them confused at times. Also towards the last couple of scenes the music started to come a little bit early which we decided upon as to represent that the actions of her past were now going to be affecting her future. We firmly believe that the lighting in the scenes was not up to par with our standards and could have been tackled differently.