Incorporating Media Theory

 Active Audience Theory

Active audience theory is the theory in which audiences don't passively view a film but try to interpret things happening. After much discussion with my partner Selena, we decided that active audience theory would be best to incorporate into our film opening project. We will incorporate this with our plot by introducing a mysterious figure making the audience question what it could be. The scene will consist of a silhouette of a figure in a streetlight, and the identity of the figure will not appear which will question the viewer and the actor in this case. The end of the scene will still consist of the figure being masked technically but it leaves the audience assuming what it could be throughout the whole film. As a result, the suspense is built straight from the beginning and continues throughout the whole movie and the eeriness of its presence. Questions that may surface while watching the scene are like, will it come closer? will it lunge at us? will it reveal itself? In the case of our film the viewers don't get the sweet treat of being able to know what supernatural entity the antagonist throughout the film is.