How did you attract/address your audience?

We tried to attract/address our audience by  using as many point of view shots as possible to try to make the audience empathise with the character. This also makes the thriller more realistic and draws the audience in as they feel apart and involved with what's happening.



Another way we attracted our audience is by using teenagers for the main protagonists. This attracts both young and old viewers as the young teenage viewers can relate to the characters in ‘Music Box’ and the old/older viewers are attracted as they think ‘stereotypically’ that the teenagers are going to get into trouble so they want to see what trouble they may get up to.

The setting of ‘Music Box’; at a train station; can attract everyone as everyone has been on a train with there friends. Everyone can relate to them and as it is an ordinary situation to be in it makes the viewers more attracted to ‘Music Box’ as they want to see what can happen on an ordinary train.

We used Point of View shots in the establishing shot when we can see the train coming in. This makes the audience feel like they are just waiting for a train, there is nothing really scary about that which also includes a thriller convention of leading the audience down false paths as they do not expect anything scary to happen whilst waiting for a train.
Other point of view shots used in ‘Music Box’ are when the boy moves from behind the teenage boys to next to them. We used Point of View shots here so the audience can see fully exactly what the characters can see, this makes them feel more involved with the situation and makes the situation more realistic.


We used other shots like close ups and reaction shots as well as Point of View shots to also create the same affect. For example when one of the characters says to the other who is that there is a close up.