Hello blog! Now that you know what my film opening will be based on. I want to talk about a media theory that I would love to add to my film opening. This theory is the uses and gratification theory.
This theory basically states that audiences are "active instead of passive." What this means is that the audience themselves choose the media that they consume based on their needs and wants. This basically means that people use media for entertainment, knowledge, and to socialize. So content creators need to think about how their audience will respond to their content before they post it.
I feel like this theory will be perfect for my project because of my target audience. Due to my film opening being in the thriller genre, my audience would be seeking suspense, tension, and some sort of excitement. In order to accomplish this, I will attempt to build mystery by limiting what the audience sees throughout the opening. I can also use lighting, editing, and sound to assist in giving the audience what they are seeking.
Integrating this theory will also help me be more intentional with my storytelling, and it will also help aid my character design. In order to achieve this, my partner and I will make the characters feel more relatable by dressing them in a way that they look like an ordinary person. This can also help create more tension since it can make the audience believe that this can happen to them, too.
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