Evaluation Of Thriller Film "Captured" Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Suspense, suspense is the main aspect of our thriller that would attract the audience. Films such as Psycho are all full of suspense and keep the audience on the edge of their seats. Our film does this by flashbacks between Jason Strong in the present and in  the past following Caesar Arjana, causing suspense in when and how he is going to hurt Caesar. The narrative pleasure is one of the largest aspects of suspense due to the transition between past and present. This makes it hard for the audience to conclude, keeps them thinking and makes it interesting.

The film also attracts through the aspect of social realism, the dark dim lower class streets of England similar to those in Essex Boys and This is England, and the beautiful yet frightening woods similar to the location of the murder in Heavenly Creatures. These locations are all related to places that the audience may live in or near
. Another part to the social realism is that the audience can relate themselves to the characters, mainly Caesar or Helen. The audience would put themselves in Caesar’s position and think about how horrible it is, making it realistic. This is similar to Heavenly Creatures which is based upon a true story where two girls murder their mother.

Our thriller is a mix of sub-genres, social realist, drama and crime. Crime makes the film frightful because it is mixed with social realism making it seem real, making the audience think that it could happen to them. The drama is the suspense of the film making it exhilarating and interesting as well as making the audience feel pity and fear for Caesar's awful fate that awaits him. The father is a kind of "horror" film generic concoction, his body language, obsessiveness and army fatigue all symbolise evil, making the audience fear him, scared of him.