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

In my thriller there is a clear anti-hero and this is the character who steals money and a bag from someone yet you want him to get away. This plays with the ideas of your usual hero and i feel that people are bored of the hero always being a good guy and never putting a foot wrong. The audience will be attracted by the idea of an anti-hero as they can relate to the fact that not everyone is always good all the time people can mess up but they can also do the right thing in the end which is how I pictured the main character Harley being as the film would progress.

I also think the audience would enjoy the side to it that is unrelatable as well because it gives them a rush to see things that would never happen in their day to day life. For example the kidnapping scene (on the right) shows how far the lives of these two men are different to the audience members. This allows people to escape into a world which they know nothing about and get a sense of how people may live their lives in the criminal underworld. This also gives the film a very good realism to it and shows the grittiness of some places and people.
The imagination of the viewer is also played with as there are enigmas and a macguffin in the film. The enigma, which is the ring, gets the imagination of the audience going as they will immediately ask questions as to why he is holding an old engagement ring. This allows them to connect with the character as they can imagine that a tragedy has happened in his life which he may still be mourning over. The connecting to a character allows the audience to feel like they are a part of the film as they feel for the young man and his situation.

The macguffin  is the bag as we never know what is in the bag and this creates a sense of mystery and the audience can themselves try and work out the mystery. This is used in Pulp Fiction as the briefcase is never opened and this creates mystery for the viewer and i thought i would re create that mystery and put it in my film as it captured me so i thought i could too capture people with it. The mystery keeps the audience engaged as they want to find out what's in the bag so they will be interested in the unknown and throw themselves into the story to and work it out for themselves.

The style and aesthetics are very important in setting the right tone for the film. In my film i used different colour palates for different occasions to create a certain mood. in the top photo with the car, this is just before the character gets kidnapped and this scene needs to have a cold look to it which is what i tried to achieve with the blue tinge to it and this create a cold and uncertain mood which the audience feel on end for. The bottom photo is of the kidnap scene and the colour palate is very bright and this is to show the conflict and aggression in the film with really harsh lighting so that the mood it set for the scene.