How did you attract/address your audience?

As I stated in the last question our main audience for our film is teenagers. I think that by using things that are familiar to that age group the film doesn't seem alien to them and they can relate to it. Most schools will have kids who people deem to be a 'nerd'. So the people watching it either know a 'nerd' or perhaps are one so that comes into it aswell. The things we use that teenagers can relate to is, a typical girl rejecting a boy trying to talk to them that many boys will understand! This was also backed up by a questionaire we did to test audience feedback. People stated in the questionnaire that they would want to watch the rest of the film based on the opening so we know that we were sucessful in attracting our audience. They felt that they were attracted to our film by the sense of farcity in our film, with the speed camera for example. In our film we used many comedy genre techniques to attract our audience. We used unobtrussive editing in order to give it a normal day/event theme rather than a big flashy hollywood production feel. We also used costume , with the stereotypical 'nerdy' jumper, for comedic effect to try and attract comedy lovers to our film. On the camera angles side of things we mostly used standard mid shots. Although we did use one over the shoulder shot which was meant to show how the main character is alienated from the rest of the class. I think this worked because it showed that the teenagers that were on the shoulder side of the camera were talking and generally socialising but Melvin was on his own, not talking to anyone doing his work. That also added to the comedy of the film which was how we attracted our intended audience.