Relationship Between Audience and Films

Relationship Between Audience and Films

In this movie the Director is trying to get across the message of the irony of the many films it is portraying, it takes the same style of many stereotypical horror films, and adapts it into something else. As the stereotype of the movie is very well known and common, the audience can understand it, and realize the meaning that the Director is trying to get at and communicate to the audience.

This film is a horror, this means it can be seen as a pleasure as well, as the people are watching something that they themselves do not have to experience, making it more enjoyable, as it is someone else's hardship.

In the movie we create a large empathy for the lead character and her companions, as it is these characters that have an emotional background, and throughout the story change and we as the audience respond to that change. Developing with the character, so almost relate to them, this makes a film more pleasurable if we can relate to them.

The complexity of the story, as it evolves from one stage, to a second, and them moves into something even bigger, this drags the audience in, making them feel like they are involved in this in some way. The movie has almost three levels in some way, and because we as the audience are seeing the two sides to a situation, we are interested to learn more as well, which involves watching more and being dragged more into the situation.

The film uses Frameworks if Interpretation to communicate the cultural reference of the stereotypical characters in it, and how they are used as the framework for allot of films of the same genre. The characters all use the same features of their stereotypes and have the same characteristics which considering the film and the narrative is very ironic.

The audience after seeing the film understand the media literacy communicated by the poster, and realize what the message means. The image of the Cabin on the poster communicates how the poster describes the complexity and the levels to the narrative.

This film uses intertexuality to refer to other films, when the monsters are revealed and released from there cages, we see hundreds of these different monsters, and these monsters are all monsters that we would normally recognize from stereotypical horrors, so we make the connection between them and the other horror films that these characters have been in. For example, the giant spiders may make the connection to the spiders from traditional  horror films such as: Arachnophobia, or eight legged freaks. Another example would be the Hell lord and the connection between that monster and the monster from Stephen Kings, Hellraiser.

 

The meaning of the film is communicated to the audience as, turning the situation of the gruesome horror into something mundane, a small office where the characters watch and criticize the horror tropes, which is ironic as they take place on themselves as well. The meaning of the film is simply set out to suggest the predictability of the horror genre, and how it can always be for seen before it even happens. But this movie plays with these rules to define this statement.

The film uses very current new and experienced effects, the monsters are all very detailed and have very well crafted costume designs and props that make the characters both frightening and recognizable as monsters. The CG I, explosions and other effects also are to a high standard, therefore the audience enjoy it more, and are more compelled to go see it. The film apply's the effects to the genre as the horror genre will often use high tech effect to help represent monsters or create the effect of gore and etc.

This film approaches a large audience as in the trailer credits include the name of a famous Director/Producer Joss Whedon, and as this will be the next film he will be part of the production on, it attracts the Joss Whedon fans, they will next want to be going to see that movie.

The audience can after the movie create a Fandom around the concept of it, as these is the key feature and what is the most compelling to the audience, so people could be buying the posters as the poster describes the narrative in a single image. The monsters involved have also been used around the fandom of it, for example in the movie it makes us think of a Unicorn in an entirely different manner, something very dark, evil, which is why people have gone into buying t-shirts of an evil unicorn, as it has a very dark sense of humour which a lot of people like.

 

People have also applied the monsters and idea of cabin in the woods to the use of events and websites, for example people discuss about their favourite monsters on fan made websites, people also use the monsters to base their costumes on at Comic-Con.

The film however does not use any interactivity in anyway, as the audience do not get involved in way.

The fact Joss Whedon is used also adds to the Pre-Post Viewing Experience, making more people want to go see it, other people such as the actors Chris Hemsworth and Fran Kranz, both actors who have appeared in other shows that make them well known, recognizable, so more people get more excited for the movie.

However this film has its own conditions of reception, in that people who have not seen many horrors, and dont understand the idea of a stereotypical horror, will not understand the concept of which this film is trying to get at and explain. This is why some people may view the film differently as they see it differently.

By Stuart Fuller