2. The main attraction to our audience is the tension that we are able
to build within the opening sequence. This convention is a vital
part in appealing to a thriller audience as it draws in the audience
and keeps them guessing at all times.
This is used in many thriller’s opening sequences, where not much
information is given away e.g Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997)
and Se7en (David Fincher, 1995) -
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We were able to attract our audience in this way by concealing the
characters identity.

3. Also to enable us to attract our target audience we had to take into account
and follow these conventions;
 Fast-paced
 The unknown/ narrative enigma
 Plot twists
 Investigation
 Protagonist accustomed to violence and often dis-empowered
 Complex narrative that still abides by Todorov.
 Violent crime
 Everyday setting where something extraordinary happens
 Themes of mirroring, identity, voyeurism.
With these in mind we carried out audience research to ensure that we
included representations, themes etc that would appeal to them. In order to
find this out we carried out a questionnaire. Within which we included
questions that would help us establish both a location and character that
would appeal to our target audience and portray conventions.

5.  Our thriller addresses the audience by creating
narrative enigma and building tension through
the use of mise en scene, costume and
props, camera, editing, and sound.
 The way in which we conveyed the key convention
of a violent crime is by making the characters
movements ghostly and in addition to this
changing the camera settings to give an eerie feel.
Another way in which this is established is
through the use of red for the characters costume
which has the connotations of danger, this creates
narrative enigma and draws in the viewer. Doing
this has the implications to the viewer that the
character is dead due to a violent crime.