Evaluation: Asleep (Student Thriller Sequence)

This sequence recieved moderate success on YouTube with 7,886 hits. As being an American production, this is shown with Mise-En-Scene with establishing shots placing the audience in America. The setting is involved with empty, long-winded roads, different environment from the British culture.

I think this sequence is very successful as being a thriller sequence, because it features slides with rhetorical questions leading the audience to want to watch more. The black background with white, bold capital letters allows the audience to focus fully on the words. The twinkling, non-diegetic music in the background gradually increases tension until that final 'bang' which suddenly changes the overall tone.
The use of handheld camera movement makes the audience feel they are part of the action. It also adds to the tension where something bad is bound to happen. I think the credits shown at the end of the sequence provides the illusion that it's going to be shown in cinemas possibly. Overall, I think that the sequence is very successful in grabbing the audience's attention by using the conventions of a thriller to do this. For example, the tProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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sion builds with the non-diegetic music and the action where the lead character realises that there was no one around apart from him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwcg18UduKg