Primary Audience Research

The Questions i asked were:

1.     What age group do you believe this movie is aimed at?

2.     What do you think the genre of this film is?

3.     Do you think the music suits the pace of the images? How?

4.     Do you think the Amount of shots is effective in building narrative? How?

5.     Can you tell what this film is going to be about by looking at this section?

6. How effective is the opening in setting mood? How is it effective?

The feedback given by my audience, will effect the decisions i make stylistically. For example, To give the impression of a lower social class, and a gang environment, to give the actor/s a uniformed appearance that have aspects that reflect the personalities of the characters. Music should be used to set the tone of the film, whilst still being context sensitive to the images on screen. It is not necessary to have a lot of action or fast-paced editing, it can be more effective to introduce the film slowly. Location, whether interacted with or not, tells people what the themes of the movie are before any action has taken place. Finally, about twenty seconds of narration can completely change the mood of the opening, and reveal more about the plot early on.

Distribution

New line cinema

I think new line cinema would be interested in distributing my film, as they have distributed similar titles in the past. Most notedly, Se7en. Other films with similar content are: "A Nightmare on Elm street" (2010), "The Number 23", "Final Destination", "Domino" and "American History X" All of these films are similar to mine in the fact that the main plot points are revealed over time, or require a bit of thinking from the audience. Most of the films also contain a large amount of violence, and most are Rated '15'.



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Target Audience

The audiance will depend on what kind of thriller film. Like all genres, there are sub-genres and to give an accurate answer you would have to specify what kind of thriller film.

There are those thrillers that are borderline horror films, such as The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Village. Since they're close to horror (and horror films target teenage males), the demographic would be slightly different, probably younger and more male based demographic.

And then there are legal thrillers (Fracture, Runaway Jury) and crime thrillers (Memento, Se7en) that target a more mature audience. Legal thrillers are usually aimed more at a female audiance, and crime thrillers aimed at a male audiance.

Based on the evidence given by the films "Corolanus" and "Man on a Ledge", most likely young adult, male demographic from 18-25. Most likely C1 in terms of social class.


Using this information to work out the type of audiance a crime thriller attracts, i can start to think about what is aesthetically pleasing to that audiance. from my research, it is evident that 21-30 year old males will most likely be my greatest audiance. Generally Crime thrillers contain winding plots, shocking openings and lots of violence or gore.

Textual Analysis

Prelim

Video production

My choice of brief.

Prelim task = Continuity task demonstrating match on action, Shot/Reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. two characters sitting opposite each-other, one must sit down on camera.
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Main task = the titles and opening of a new fiction film maximum of two minutes. Material must be original or not under copyright.