Josh's Audience Research into Conventions of Music, Mise en Scene and Camera

Audience Response to Music, Mise en Scene and Camera in a Teaser Trailer For our main task production we needed to know what it is that the audience will want to and expect to see in the teaser of a thriller film, therefore I made this questionnaire and asked ten people these questions: 1. What style and format of music would you expect to see in a thriller film? 2. When would you expect the music to start in a thriller? 3. How important is the music in a thriller teaser trailer? 4. What sort of mise en scene would you expect in a thriller teaser and how important is it? 5. Are there any particular camera shot types that you would expect to see in a thriller teaser? The results that I got back showed the following: 1. Quick, fast paced music, with lots of crashes and bangs and use of crescendos to build tension 2. Straight away but most importantly just before action to build to the action, but also at time of no action with quiet music i.e. sombre music 3. The music in a thriller teaser has to give you a sample of the music in the film and must indicate the amount of tension in the film, therefore is very important 4. Low key lighting, signifiers, dark places, eerie settings, isolated areas such as woods and even small confined rooms 5. Close ups to show emotion of characters, high and low angle shots to identify attributes of characters, varying levels to keep with the action, lots of them We now know exactly what we need to do and the conventions of sound, mise en scene and camera that we need to use in our own thriller teaser trailer.