Media Evaluation - Question 2

Characters are important to include in thriller films because they are easily relatable to the audience, which then engages them to the film.
The two characters in our brief are very conventional to the thriller genre, this is because out first character is a female whom wears a school uniform and a white fur coat. She is of the age of 16, which makes the character around the asme age as our target audience, her narrative role is the female victim. The second character that we have is the antagonist, whom's gender is unknown to the audience, as well as their age. The antagonist is dressed in an all black attire, following with all black shoes.

Our characters are conventional because; the female victim is 16 and wears a school uniform with a white fur coat, this makes her easily relatable to females whom go to school and are also roughly of the same age, which means that the audience will be appealed to the female character through her relatable traits. The white fur coat also allows the audience to connote that the symbolisation of the colour white is purity,innocence and naivity, which resembles her personality and character as a whole. The antagonist is conventional to the thriller genre because their gender is unknown to the audience, creating an enigma, which is also conventional because the audience question who is under the mask. The antagonist also wears an all black attire, which the audience can connote and foreshadow death and demise, which resembles the antagonist's behaviour and personality.

All of these conventions make our characters relatable and help build a relationship with the audience. The female victim is relatable because she is around the same age as our target audience, thus the audience can relate and sympathise for her because they feel as if they could be in her situation die to having similar traits. The audience can build a negative relationship with the antagonist because they're wearing an all black attire, which symbolises death and the audience foreshadow something sinister to happen in the future. This engages the audience because they fear of the unknown as they do not know who is under the mask and what they're capable of.