The document discusses feedback received from the target audience of 16-24 year olds who watched a thriller film. The feedback praised the camera work and soundtrack for building suspense through the use of sound bridging and a tense atmosphere. However, some commented that the non-linear narrative with quick flashbacks caused some confusion. It was suggested that the cross dissolves between scenes be strengthened and the flashbacks lengthened to make the narrative easier to understand. The document also discusses how sound is a key element in thrillers to build suspense, using the example of Psycho.

1. How did you attract/address
your audience?

2. • When receiving completed questionnaires
from other students who had watched our thriller
we had useful feedback to improve it. Also as our
questionnaires were given to our target audience of
male and females aged 16-24 it gave us an idea of
how popular our thriller would be. We were given
positive feedback on particularly our camera work
and soundtrack. To quote a student who recently
watched our thriller "The soundtrack built
suspense", this shows us that our soundtrack
achieve it's purpose in building up suspense and
tension and drawing in the audience. Also our use of
sound bridging was appealing to the audience in
creating a tense atmosphere.

3. Another comment that came up was
that there was slight confusion about
the non-linear narrative due to the
quick flashbacks. Some people said that
this made the narrative harder to
understand an gave it 3/5(1 being the
hardest to understand and 5 being the
easiest).
• So therefore this shows
that we could
strengthen the cross
dissolves and make it
very clear that they are
flashbacks, also we
could lengthen them for
a stronger effect.

4. There are several strong elements of mise-
en-scene that I believe hook the audience in
to watching the rest of the film, a strong one
being the sound. An example of how much
of a important role it plays is in the classic
thriller “Psycho” where the use of non-
diegetic and diegetic sound works perfectly Sound bridging is important as
in building suspense and horror throughout hearing diegetic sound in the
the scene. Non-diegetic is played in the background gives the film an
background of the violin screech soundtrack authentic feel.
which contrasts with the diegetic and more
subtle sound of the shower. The sound is
shocking and sounds as if something horrific
is happening repetitively, therefore the
sound is highly important in creating
fear.