HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

Question 5By Charlotte Dyer

To attract my audience I used the stereotypical objects which are commonly seen in existing horror films like blood, gore and dead people as well as the use of eerie music on top of the title sequence. I also had the use of alcohol and mental instability in my title sequence to attract my audience as well as give them a glimpse for as to what may foreshadow in the film and make them want to continue to watch the film.

My title sequence begins off with my protagonist on the swing staring sinserterly past the camera and into the distance. With this being in a public park it would make the audience wonder who or what she is looking at making them want to watch on to see if they are going to find out.

The use of the empty swing swinging on its own will make the audience question further for as to why the swing is swinging by itself and by not having any audio in the title sequence the audience don’t yet understand why it is happening making them want to continue to watch on.

The cut from the park to the clock gives the audience an idea of the change of time but at this point they have no idea whether it is before or after the previous scene.

When the audience is shown the main character getting up from her bed the audience will notice the arm of a dead body under her bed this will make the audience wonder why there is one under her bed and what was her motive in killing that person.

The audience is then taken to the hall where there is quite clearly a lot of drugs and alcohol around making them wonder why she is like this and what else can she do making them interested into what is going to happen further on.

Soon after the audience is then shown the bathroom door from the inside where the protagonist walks through towards the sink. During this the audience is shown another dead body laying in the bath which is covered with blood this makes the audience wonder how many people has she killed and are in the house and the question why she is killing these people is still running through their heads.

The audience is also shown later in the title sequence the main protagonist dropping a bloodied knife with yet another dead body in the grounds of the park where the audience was originally at during the very beginning of the title sequence, suggesting to them that the time has again changed back to before when she was staring out into the distance, making the audience wonder if the person she has killed was the person who she was watching from afar.

The audience is left off with the camera zooming in on the protagonists new victim, this is where the title of the film is shown which is again in a blood red colour but in less of a bold colour, this could make the audience why the protagonist had decided to kill her and what her morale was for doing so.