Influences

 

Target Audience

Cape Fear
The target audience of Cape Fear for Demographics and Psychographics would be 15+ mainstream male group. This is becuase it is the certificate of the film and due to the action and plot of the film, it is a mans film rather than the stereotypical female film genre.

Insidious

The target audience of Insidious for Demographics and Psychographics would mainly be to appeal to explorers of a 15+ age group. This is due to the plot of the story being one that causes adventure and mainly appeals to young people as they are most influential and most willing to discover un-natural things.

 

The Woman In Black
The target audience of The Woman In Black is a 12a, and therefore would appeal to people in the psychographic definition of strugglers and explorers due to the story line being one of exploration and unknown circumstances which would appeal to both of these types of target audience, however, because the certificate is a lower age compared to other thrillers, it could be less appealing to older teenagers but more likely 12-16 year olds.

 

The Conjuring

The target audeince of The Conjuring would most likely be of a 15+ age group, most likely to be explorers and strugglers as well. The certificate of the film is a 15, the gender which is most likely to be associated with this film is both genders. 

 

Orphan Orphan has an age certificate rating of 15 and again appeals to strugglers and explorers due to the film, much like Insidious, is about exploring the unknown and un-natural elements and therefore would appeal to a more influential age group of people who are open to finding and discovering new things.

Psychographics

Demographic

A common and well known method of audience research is known as demographics. This defines the population mainly by the proffession that they do. This then is able to break the population down into different groups that labels them by using a letter code to describe the income and status of the members of each group.
In order for a film to successful, the producer needs to know the demographics of their potential audience so that they can shape their film to appeal to a group that has known viewing habits.
A table of demographics would help a producer to analyse what their target group is.

Our thriller is going to be aimed at the student/unemployed proffession. By the thriller being aimed at this social class gives us a broader genre of thriller to choose from due to students having ambitions to become someone in a high paying proffession, or of the upper middle class. Eventhough, this way of finding out a target audience may work for some producers, it has many flaws and can not be accurate due to people having ambitons and the willingness to improve and change their ascribed status to one that is higher up than what they are currently in. It could be argued that the better way of finding a target audience is by using the Psychological profiling method. 

BBFC Research

Marking Other Students Work

These two final videos, which was graded at Level 4 and Level 3, vary in grading for many reasons:

Mise-en-Scene
The costuming of the characters was effective in Psychotic due to them suiting the characters and being what you would expect to see from the characters being portrayed. However, for Remember Me? The costuming was basic and didn't add to suspense or tension, whilst realistic for everyday life it was not realistic for a thriller and did not suit the characters as well as it could.
The settings in both, were partly in a house, however, Remember Me? had too many pieces of furniture in the background shots, taking away the sense of suspense and tension that you would expect to see in a thriller.
The props that were used were both linked into the plot of the thrillers, however, the hammer in Remember me? was not effective and did not create tension or fear and had more of a comical effect.
Lighting is really effective in Psychotic, especially when the girl is walking down the long, dark, narrow corridor by herself. The lighting in Remember me? is naturalistic light and does not have a good effect.

Sound
The sound of the thriller is like a heartbeat drumming throughout. When the titles come on the music beat gets harder and louder, and when a new scene is shown the music also changes to this, this could be to show that the girl is psychotic, which is the name of the thriller. There is noise of screaming and murmuring in the opening, which shows that the girl is suffering and is scared of her demons that are haunting and controlling her. However, the music in Remember me? is predictable and does not create tension due to when it falls in the film.

Editing
There is no editing in Remember Me?, however, in Psychotic, the whole film when the girl is with her two friends is filmed in black and white, which adds to the film, and links to the dull, dark atmosphere which you want to find in a thriller instead of natural lighting and colouring.

Cinematography
We see a lot of different camera angels and shots in both film openings, as we see in Remember me? the shots are very basic and simple and have kept it very minimalistic. On the other hand, in psychotic, there are a variety of complex shots and examples of close ups, including a close up of her eyes wandering which makes you think that she may be mentally ill. There are also shots of her walking around an abandoned room and this also flashes back to her in reality shots with her 2 friends. Overall, Psychotic has interpreted many complex shots which is reflected in their overall grade of the film opening.
 

Focus Group

This is our focus group, we found out that an audience would appreciate our idea of using a young girl to star in our final piece. Also our influences, such us 'Orphan' do have a big fan base seeing as they use the younger generation to build a relationship with the viewers. This means that people will want to watch our film and find the plot exciting. The idea that thrillers should build suspense is a good thing as our main aim is to psychologically disturb our audience and make them want to watch on.

Year 13 talk

Our Prelim Video

Title Sequence - Skyfall

Questionnaire Analysis

Thriller Questionnaire

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9WCW8QM

The whole group has posted this individually on Twitter and Facebook to reach a wider audience and therefore give us some idea of what our audience would expect to see in the opening of our thriller.

Please feel free to take part in our questionnaire and help us to fulfil your expectations.

Prelim Analysis

The Conjuring Textual Analysis - Kayleigh Beard

Orphan Textual Analysis- Grace Parker

Insidious Textual Analysis - Georgia Seth

Insidious opening title sequence link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1e1feo4DUk

The Woman In Black Textual Analysis - Emma Tungatt

Cape Fear Analysis

Codes and Conventions

MoodBoard

The moodboard represents the thrillers that have inspired us to come up with various ideas for our final film. The young people on the moodboard represent how we aspire to use a young girl to star in our thriller, just like 'the Orphan' and 'Sinister'. The close up images used, show emotion which, we would like to get across in our opening. The creepy and dark forest images reflect the setting we aim to use as the location for our film. The carvings gave us the idea to do the same thing in our thriller but on trees which will be used as a long shot also in the first scene. Lastly, the red eyes represent demons and possession which is the storyline to our thriller.