Aice Media Studies (CCR 2# preparation)

 Now the 2nd CCR Question!!

Last week we were assigned to prepare our CCR 1 questions and responses, planning how to do it. Now it's time to talk about CCR 2!!!

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

• Overall Idea:

For the overall idea, since this question takes place in the same video as question 1 the plan for the story stated in CCR 1 preparation will be the same story for CCR 2. I'll try my best to smoothly transition the video in an understandable way for CCR 2.

• How to answer the question:

                    - Target Audience: 

        I want my product to engage with audiences that truly love the horror aspects of films, I want the audiences to fully feel in-depth and immersed in the story, and I want the product to create a sense of terror that gets the thrill of your heart pounding. I want to engage audiences with darker, and low-lighting visuals which would drive audiences to be interested in the visuals. I want to use audio like sharp tones, mixed with muffled and terrifying screeches, followed by background sounds of the setting and environment to entertain and pull audiences to the story present in the opening. I want the audience to connect with the characters as well as understand their fears and struggles with the acting and events. I also want to engage those who love watching psychological thrillers as the intensity of the film increases while watching the father plunge into more and more darkness and terror until the very end when the son witnesses the traumatic event of watching his father's death.

                    -Distribution as a real media text:

        For distribution, me and my group would focus on trying multiple media platforms in order to get the name of the film out there. We'll create strong presences on social media, having accounts spanning all of their more popular social media like TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc... We would share teasers, trailers, and behind-the-scenes and engage with fans on different occasions. We would try to host live events like screenings and live videos. We could try collaborations or partnerships with popular influencers, and horror-themed channels that could be found on platforms like YouTube. We could even attempt other forms of trying to get our product out there with uses like radio shows and even podcasts, interviews with the director and actors, trying to make some types of fun entertainment. In a realistic sense, over time, while our product gains more and more we could try licensing our products to official sponsors for our film, as well as trying to license it onto popular streaming software and platforms such as Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV+, etc...

This is how I'd want to engage target audiences, while also explaining how we could realistically distribute our film.