Evaluation, Question 2

How did you attract you audience?


Audiences that like thriller films are loyal to them as they enjoy them. They question our own safety and give the audience edge-of-your-seat thrills. Our product is more psychological, and our audience will like that as it questions our own sanity and makes people excited.


My thriller uses the convention of low-key lighting, using only one light, as audiences would expect of a thriller and the images fade out to black, creating darkness for a couple of seconds while the audience wonder what images they will see next. Also, the editing of the images is distorted to make the audience feel uncomfortable, which is meant to be felt while watching a thriller. However, I do not use CU shots or ECU shots even though they are conventional when it comes to a thriller, but I used LS and MCUs to show the whole shadow so the audience can see the whole image.


The BBFC guidelines for my sort of thriller were unclear, as it contains psychological threat. Originally, I would have rated my product as a 15 and I still would because, based on the films I have seen that include psychological threat are 15's, such as Shutter Island. The BBFC states that "At 15 there can be strong threat and menace", which falls into the category of my product.


I filmed all of my shots at home and in the garden to make it more realistic and make the audience feel a bit unsafe and my brother helped me as he was in most of my shots and wore dark clothing even though it was more of his shadow. This appeals to my audience because the point of a thriller is to make people feel tense and fill them with suspense and my product does this by using this location and what I filmed.

The visual techniques we incorporated were the use of low-key lighting and using only one light and the editing we used, which was mostly an effect called Bad Film which makes it flicker and on some of the shots we have blurring to distort it and make it unrecognisable which makes the audience feel tense as they don't know what it is they are looking at.


The idea for our thriller title sequence was inspired by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychotherapist and psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. In 1913, at the age of 38, Jung experienced a horrible "confrontation with the unconscious". He saw visions and heard voices. He worried at times that he was "menaced by a psychosis" or was "doing a schizophrenia." He decided that it was valuable experience, and in private, he induced hallucinations, or, in his words, "active imaginations." He recorded everything he felt in small journals. Jung began to transcribe his notes into a large, red leather-bound book,therefore known as the 'Red Book', on which he worked intermittently for sixteen years.