Task 5. How did you attract/adress your audience?

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How did you attract/address your audience?

We have taken notes from other thrillers to include several conventions in our opening sequence. During the first few shots of our thriller a conventional close-up over the head shot is shown to suggest she is daydreaming or thinking which attracts the audience as she is looking directly in to the camera and engaging them in her thought process.  The titles we used are also seen to be conventional, as they are expected to be there in all movies not just the thriller genre. Another convention we used was to build suspense using sound, which is seen in nearly every thriller opening (look at films such as Inception and tv shows like American Horror Story).

Narrator-Plot/Enigma

Similar to Final Destination, a thriller based upon a girl who is able to foresee when people are going to die. Considering that the plotline and narrative are easy to follow, the same fan base that would find these types of supernatural movies exciting would hopefully find ours attractive too.

Shot choice & selection

We used a series of shots which would build suspense such as the shaky middle shot of fight, the tight close up panning shot of the girl dying on the road. Also, we used hand held shots to make it more disturbing and to create verisimilitude. Moreover, the Kuleshov Effect was used during the shooting, our plot comprised scenes which follow in a certain order, the implication was that viewers bring their own emotional reactions and connote the plot in the way they want. 

Use of sound

We cut the sound according to the credits. We added a second layer of sound to create a cut up and abstract sound track with an underlying and constant ghostly sounds. Also,we used purely non-diegetic sounds as we wanted to create a dream like and surreal sense for the audience. The sound reaches its climactic point right at the end of the opening, when the clock speeds up and arrows move furiously, the climax of the music stops as the screen blacks out, then the titles are shown in synchronization with the distorted sound again. 

Unique Selling Point

Our unique selling point in this thriller is definitely the storyline, as it is suspenseful, original and has a strong marketable theme “Mystical gift”.

What’s being represented?

Unexpected events which happen to everyone in this life, personal problems and their mystic dawn are shown in our thriller This girl seems to be ordinary however inside everyone has some difficulties which are not conceivable for society and she’s an example for this.