The Shawshank Redemption: The First-Person Narrator And His Effect On Audience’s Consciousness And Experience

Current research and present condition reveal the narration on cueing understanding
of audience’s comprehension and some form of social communication. More
research needs to be conducted to explore first-person narrators as a medium to get
the audience into experience and consciousness. This is a quantitative research
conducted in order to examine the impact of the narrator on the audience and to
determine the criteria of the narration that pique the viewers’ interest to watch the
entire film as well as to examine whether first-person narrator is a great medium to
evoke the human experience towards the audience. Online surveys were distributed
to individuals at the age of 17 to 60-year-old within Malaysia. The result of statistical
analysis showed the positive impact of the first-person narrator to trigger the emotion
among the viewers and also the reliability of the narrator is highly appreciated and
crucial but not necessarily needed. The findings of the research is significant in the
film industry to film practitioners for better outcome in exploring the first-person
narrator.