The document discusses various elements of the movie Suicide Squad that would provide pleasure and engagement for audiences. These include iconic comic book characters, popular soundtrack artists, famous actors, realistic costumes and props, suspenseful camera work, and exciting action sequences. Additionally, the female characters are represented in a sexualized way that may appeal to the male gaze, while the action/adventure genre is broadly popular. These factors aim to immerse and engage audiences in the comic book world.

1. Audience Pleasures

2. Feature Audience Pleasures
• Characters (i.e. Harley, Joker, Deadshot)
• The Comic books
• The storyline itself
• The soundtrack (Has famous bands such as
Twenty One Pilots)
• The actors (The famous actors such as Will
Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto)

3. Micro Elements
• Mise en Scene:
• The costume the actors are wearing reinstates and helps the
audience know who the characters are. This causes audience
pleasures because the actors are wearing iconic costumes the
audience grew up seeing. It also causes excitement because it
is as accurate the audience want it to be.
• The props gives the audience pleasure as it makes the movie
seem more realistic, therefore they can escape into the movie
and forgot about any life problems. The props also help set
the scene and give away any missing detail, therefore the
audience can tell what is going on and can understand the
storyline

4. Micro Elements
• Editing:
• The CGI used in the movie would give the audience
pleasure as it would add to the story and make the
whole movie seem more realistic. By making the movie
more realistic it would mean that the audience can
escape into the movie and become fully engaged. Also
by using CGI on the characters it would make the
characters become as accurately as close to the
characters in the comic books. This would make the
audience feel pleasure as the movie is following the
comic books, which is what they want.

5. Micro Elements
• Camera Work:
• The camera work would give the audience
pleasure as each camera shot/angle creates and
builds tension and suspension. It also adds to the
action happening. For example, when the
director used a wide shot of the squad, it makes
the squad seem invincible and are able to
overcome anything. This would make the
audience feel very excited and would want the
squad to win.

6. Micro Elements
• Sound:
• The soundtrack of the movie would give the
audience pleasure as it uses popular
bands/artists that everyone knows (such as
twenty one pilots, panic! At the disco, Lil Wayne
etc..) By using popular artists and bands means
that more people will watch the movie because
the audience will be fans of the artists, therefore
they would want to listen to their favorite artists
whilst they are watching the movie.

7. Narrative, Genre and Representation
Theory
• The representation of females in this movie are very sexual.
This would give the audience (especially the males)
pleasure, this is because of the male gaze theory. The
movie uses a very attractive, young female to play Harley
Quinn, more people would watch it because there is a
pretty thing for males to look at.
• The genre of the film is action and adventure. A lot of
people like action and adventure movies, it’s one of the few
genres that all people love. This would give the audience
pleasure because it means there would be a lot of action,
suspense and an interesting journey. This means it would
be easy for the audience to stay engaged in the story as
they would want to focus on the action

8. May affect a teen audience?
• In my opinion I think it would effect a teen
audience, as it is has a lot of conventions that
would appeal to teenagers. It is also based on
the popular comic, and a lot of teenagers read
those comics, therefore they would watch it.
The movie also has a lot of big stars that
teenagers admire, such as Will Smith. They
would be able to easily identify these stars
and therefore they would watch it