5.How did you attract/address your audience?

This is the first shot of our opening sequence; a medium long shot of the lady. We didn't want her to appear directly to the camera because we didn't want to reveal the characters appearance straight away. A shot like this has appeared in many horror/thriller films; films such as grave encounter, Orphan etc. The use of not showing their identity straight away means the audience is sat there trying to discover what there is to know about the character and whether they are hiding a secret that would be revealed.

In the second shot, we have a close-up of the lady; we didn't want to keep the audience waiting too long before we revealed the lady’s' identity. The close-up of the lady meant the audience now knows her identity and will see her eyes focused on something and will question themselves 'what is she looking at?, which will help create a tense atmosphere within the shot. Close-ups of the main characters face are in every genre especially thriller and horror. Examples of film these shots appear in are: scream, saw etc.

A medium close-up is shown above of the lady writing on the wall; we see her from a side view to get a sense of feelings through her facial expressions as she draws an hourglass on the wall. In many thrillers when we are shown a side view of a character they tend to be on the floor with a tight posture; usually after something extremely dramatic has happened whether they had just murdered somebody or witnessed an horrific act.

We done a close-up of her work through a point of view shot so the audience can see the drawing through the eyes of the lady. For this particular image we had a panning around the image so the audience saw a better view of the drawing before taking it to a close-up. This shot in other words is similar to a murderer staring back at the victim after they horrificly attacked them.

The final shot is a close-up of the hourglass and a panning is used as the hourglass rolls away from the lady after she let it go. This is the final shot before the title is shown which may reflect the lady’s behaviour of giving up on hope and solving the puzzles or possibly her time is running out.