ACTIVITY FIVE: How did you attract or address the audience?
In the film ‘IT’ Steven King choses to make a scene where the clown is far away from the girl, laughing at her, but when the girl looks behind the washing line the clown appears to be getting closer and closer to her, using a long shot that turns into a very close up shot which makes the audience feel claustrophobic and scared. We decided to have a clown as the main character; this shows supernatural identity and scares the viewers. In our opening sequence, we show this by making the clown appear to get closer and closer without movement even when the young girl is running further away from the clown, we did this using inspiration from Steven King’s popular film, ‘IT’ as this adds a lot of tension. By using a clown as the main character we attract the audience as the fear of clowns is a common fear and is called coulrophobia, it is unexpected for a clown that connotes as jolly and fun to be frightening and dangerous, and so we are contradicting the genre horror. I also feel using this character it adds more of a thrill to the movie because a clown is in a human-like form which could in turn frightern the audience more as they can relate to the protagonist. In our questionnaire we asked ‘what protagonist would scare you the most’, the results came back with a human like figure and so this is another reason why we chose to use a clown.
In the film ‘Sixth sense’ the young boy can see ghosts, this is similar to our film because we have chosen to use a young girl who can also see things, but instead of ghosts she can see a clown which is in fact a figment of her imagination and her mind playing tricks on her. In ‘Sixth sense’ the camera turns to a longshot of ghousts being hung from a classroom ceiling, whereas we used the same convention -rope- but we did not actually put any rope around anyone neck and take a shot. Instead, we decided to put the camera in perspective of the person being hung for safety reasons and we then decided to swing the camera to add dramatic effect.
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