Essay Question

There are various ways my group enticed the audience to continue watching the thriller video we made. For example we used a tension building piece of music in the background that built tension throughout the clip. This is a good characteristic of the genre (Thriller) which I believe my group did well.

Another way we enticed the audience was by using a spooky font, which added tension that is needed to grab the audience. It changes the mood of the film and this was good to do in order to keep the audience’s attention.

One way we grabbed the audiences attention was by using a ‘normal’ location that the audience can relate to as it was based in a house that added to the realism. The location was my house and it added to authenticity because it is a lived in house. This meant the audience could relate to the location. The effect of this was that the audience could put themselves in the main characters shoes as the location is believable.

Another way we did this was by using a clip of what looks like blood in a sink. This grabbed the audiences’ attention and made the audience think that something sinister is going on, which is the idea of it. There is a close-up of the ‘blood’ and this is to give the audience a clear view of what we, the directors wanted.

One use of editing we did to draw in the audience was using a washed out almost black and white effect on a clip of an army officer marching. This was to give a past-tense effect, which I believe was successful. We also varied the cutting rate throughout, but for the majority of the time, we had a fast cutting rate which we used to try and achieve tension for the audience as they don't get a long to see what is going on which gives a state of confusion.

Overall, I believe we managed to draw the audiences’ attention quite well. This is because we kept to certain Thriller conventions well and used good locations and music to make it a good Thriller clip. I believe we could have done better in some areas such as number of scenes as not much actually happened in our clip, instead there were long credits, which I didn’t like about our clip.