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

Cliffhangers:

The sequence is very open ended and basically finishes on a cliffhanger and leaves alot to be explained. For this reason a lot of potentially important details are left out and both the characters featured in the narrative could either be heroes or villains. 

The audience are thrown into a world of completely unexplained chaos and despair which would interpolate the audience as they will be naturally interested in watching the rest to watch the narrative unfold and to understand more about the diegesis in which the film is set in. 

A major cliffhanger also occurs within the sequence and gives the audience a false sense of dread as it would appear the main character Charlie is dead - when it actually occured within a dream. This would be a huge shock and challenges film conventions since it is fairly rare for the main character to supposedly die so early on.

Inter-textual references:

The title sequence is almost directly influenced by that of the hitchcock film Vertigo (1960). I decided that the lines featured running across the screen in vertigo would be interesting as they are extremely recognizable to thriller audiences and would immediately engage with the audiences and throw in some suggestions as to what the narrative would be inspired by and include. 

Furthermore, the title sequence was designed and serves as an intertextual reference to 40s and 50s cinema in itself due to the graphics that are used and the way it's delivered to create a sense of fear and distort the images filmed in live-action.

Narrative: 

The narrative of Delusion is interesting as it isn't entirely linear and contains techniques such as montages and is highly subjective - being from the main character Charlie's dream. This film is more challenging to audiences than what would be seen in films that were directed towards a mainstream audience but the somewhat dis-interpolating techniques require the audience to engage, think about and attempt to unpick the mystery of what is occurring on the screen. 

Stills from the montage

Stills from the montage

Stills from the montage

Provided this was shown in a venue such as picturehouse cinemas it would definitely be likely to engage our target audience as it requires some more participation from audiences. 

Camera:

The camera is highly subjective and takes place from the perspective of Charlie. This is a commonly used way to address audiences as it helps build a relationship to the character as it directly (perhaps uncomfortably) places them inside his position. 

The camera is used to create a sense of entrapment and fear throughout several points in the sequence:

• A Tarantino style trunk shot is used which creates a sense of entrapment as it is a commonly used location for thriller villians to place their victims. Small spaces such as this are also naturally claustrophobic as being inside of a boot would be difficult to get out of and extremely uncomfortable. 
• The character Eve suddenly appears behind Charlie - which was created by using a low angle shot which obscures the ground-level of the mise en scene. This is entrapping as he walks backwards into her (who at this point could be a killer) and dramatic irony is used as there is a brief moment where he doesn't notice her standing there.