Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

One way that we thought would be a successful way to entice and attract audiences to watch our film was through the increasing tension and build of disorientation as the film continues. Typically, as the film goes on you would suspect less questions and more answers, however in our piece it is not the same. As the film continues, more questions are left unanswered such as: What was in the duffel bag? What is the purpose of the pictures on the wall? What is the non-diegetic music and heartbeat track building to? Who is this character? What are his motives? The increasing amount of questions that are left unanswered and allowing the audience to speculate the answers themselves makes the sudden and abrupt ending to the opening enforces the convention of thrill and fear that is generated through not only thriller films but crime thriller films as well.

The way that we attempted to make the audience identify with the main character is through the casting of a young adult so that the audience are able to position themselves in the characters position and consider how they might act and react to being in the similar situations that the character has been put into. On the contrary to this thought, the audience would have difficulty identifying with the character from the obvious presence of psychological issues being a major factor in the way he acts and the way he thinks. The majority of people do not have to deal and cope with any major psychological issues, therefore they would find it very hard to really see and feel how the character in our thriller feels about his problems and also very hard to relate to. However, if this is the case this could entice viewers to carry on watching as since they do not know how someone in the characters position may act, this becomes very intriguing to the audience making for a better film.

However, identifying is not the same as positioning. Since we know so little  about who the character is, what he is doing and why he is doing what he is doing, we find that in no real way we are actually positioned with him and set to like this character. On the other hand, does he do anything to make us as an audience dislike him? No, he doesn't. So the audience is placed in a mutual respect of the character due to the lack of information given about his character. However, since we see the character clearly struggling with the psychological issues that are daunting him, we do feel a slight sense of sympathy towards the character because of the clear pain and turmoil that he is in; features which are very common in thriller films for possible characters which are one of the "good guys". Despite this it is still very hard for the audience to fully position themselves with the audience due to the sincere lack of information given about the character.