Evaluation Q5

To attract our audience, we used generic conventions that are typical of thriller films, but we also included some factors of psychological horror. This includes Adam being murdered in the scene, diegetic sound that represents the feeling we are trying to give to the audience. During the sequence we use fast cuts, and we have purposely filmed at different times of the day, including shots at night time to draw attention to the tension we are building. This is one of the ways we are trying to grab the audience. We have also decided on the main actors in the film all being Males, and all being youthful. As our main audience is 15 - 35 year old males, we thought the audience could relate to the character types in the film. We hope this will make the audience more involved. We used fast cuts specifically when ashley was being chased by Arjun. Not only is this typical of a thriller to include fast cuts, it also helped build up the tension. We also used hermaneutic coding which we had learned previously about that are widely used in horror and thriller films, some examples of this include us not showing the killers (Ashley) face throughout the film, we also didn't show what actually happens to Adam (victim) and we don't show the audience what Ashley has actually taken. This makes them want to watch more to find out what has happened.