2. The audience is addressed as a third person viewing
what’s happening from an outsider point of view
rather than being involved more with the characters in
the opening scene.
This is because we didn’t want the audience to
become attached with the characters just yet due to
one of the characters dying and we wanted the other
character (the killer) to seem creepy and villainous to
begin with to create more mystery surrounding her.
We used long shots and over the shoulder shots rather
than point of view shots to portray this;
3. My thriller opening would be more attractive
and appealing to people aged 15 and over.
This is because me and my group decided to
make it quite scary and make the killer
(Amanda) look really frightening, which made
it specific to our target audience of over 15’s.
An example showing this from the opening
scene is shown below.
4. Another way we attracted an older audience is
through the use of non-diegetic and diegetic
sound.
We used suspenseful non-diegetic music
throughout the building up of the murder, but as
soon as the empty woods and Amanda were
shown, we decided to have an eerie silence aside
from their own voices and other diegetic sounds,
e.g. footsteps.
We also used diegetic sound to make it creepier.
We did this by having Amanda singing the
children’s nursery rhyme, Ring a ring a roses.
This made the scene significantly scarier.
5. A final way we attracted an older audience is
by the use of the setting.
It starts off in a safe setting (bedroom) with
bright, warm colours and by changing it
abruptly to a deserted, darker setting as the
character leaves her house creates a more
tense and scary atmosphere.
The use of the abandoned woods also made it
more daunting as it looks a lot creepier and
would be too scary for kids.
