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After reading through the Demographic profiling and Psychographic profiling we had to make a decision of what type of people will be watching our film.
For the Demographics we decided they would generally fall into catagory E - 'Unemployed, Students, Pensioners and Casual Workers.' We decided this because the majority of people who watch thrillers are teenagers and young adults, who fall into the band of Students, Unemployed or Casual workers.
This is a table showing all the different types of Psychographics.
For Psychographics we decided the audience would be 'Mainstreamers - Seek Security. They tend to be domestic, conformist, conventional, sentimental - favour value for money family brands. Nearly always the largest group' and 'Strugglers - 'Seeks escape. Allienated and diorganised. Few resources beyond physical skills. Brand choice involves impact and sensation. Buys alcohol, junk food, lottery tickets. D and E demographics.'
Demographic is where a producer targets the film he is going to make on a audiences wealth and not their personality. This doesn't often work because some people that aren't as wealthy can have the same interest in the film. If the producer wants to expand his viewing rates he needs to expand the demographic. When a producer targets the film at wealthy people for example, he is stereotyping everyone from that social class.
The classes are as follows:
A – Higher management, bankers, lawyers, doctors and other professionals
B – Middle management, teachers, creative and media people e.g. graphic designers etc
Psychographic profiling is the interests, personality, values, attitudes and lifestyles of people that the thriller will be aimed towards. Based on what our group has discovered we will be aiming our thriller towards a broad and non-specific demographic of general teenagers. Teenagers are most likely to be interested in our thriller because it has violence, partying & people being tied to chairs, the sorts of things that thrillers revolve around. The violence incorporated in our main video is that of the main female character being killed after being removed from the party, this is the sort of scene that the 60+ demographic will more than likely find less interesting than teenagers. So, on the basis of studies like this into our thriller we have decided to direct it towards teenagers and people in their early 20’s. This would make our thriller more appealing to the demographic because they realise it is targeted to them.
Cape Fear is a 1991 crime thriller. It is directed by Martin Scorsese. The screen play is written by James R. Webb. The film stars Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange.
The film opens to a view overlooking a dark, gloomy sea with low key lighting and there is the sound of a thunderstorm in the background. The water is a dark colour which means it is deep, giving the sense of drowning and claustrophobia. The opening music is creepy and solid which adds a dramatic sense to the opening which sets in the standard of the film for the audience to expect. The music represents the male leads mind as it is loud, strange and changes in speed a lot. The storm also represents him as a person as it powerful yet confusing and angry.
Images start appearing in the water, all the images have connotations with the main character, the pictures also create confusion for the audience as nothing is yet explained to them. The images reflect how the male lead sees the world. The eagle is a predatory bird, it represents power and determination. The eyes show a phsycological side to him, it makes the audience wonder if he has something wrong with him. The first eye shown is scared and the second is determined, this shows two different sides to a thriller.
The screen is drowned with the colour red. The colour red has connotations with danger, blood and power, these three factors put together create the idea of war and fear which is perfect for some types of thrillers.
The font used in the opening titles is jaggered and sharp which are both connotated with the thiller genre.
Direct address is used this takes opens the film on a personal level and makes the audience feel more involved as the girl is talking to the audience. No body knows who she is yet, she is wearing a white top, buttoned up to the top, this represents innocence but also makes the audience wonder if she has OCD.
The audience meet the male lead in his prison cell, this immediatly tells the auidence that he is the antagonist, as no hero is stereotypically in a prison cell. There are pictures of powerful people on his wall, this shows he is perhapes violant and maybe aspires to be like them or have their power or control. He has tattoos which are connotated with power and criminals which suggests he has power over everyone else through fear. The tattoo shown is large on his back, it is of scales which represent justice - An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. This suggests he wants revenge but the audience aren't aware what for.
An officer walks him out of the prison but he walks in front, this shows the audience that he fears no one and considers himself to be more important then the officer. No one says anything to him on the way out which suggests that everyone fears him. He walks straight to the camera, this shows power and that he will take over everyone and get revenge.
Directed by Wes Craven, starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette.
A killer known as "Ghost Face" begins killing off teenagers, and as a body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "rules" of horro films as they find themselves living in a real-life one. Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/
The opening credits show the title SCREAM in capitals flashing red and white, the red shows danger and the non-diegetic scream played over into the background puts the viewer on edge. This then fades to a shot of a phone and the scream fades to the sound of a phone ringing. We then see the character Casey, who is the stereotypical thriller victim - Blonde haired teenager, who is home alone - The damsel in distress.
The whole opening scene has a low key lighting to signify the time of day it is and it also gives it an eerie feeling. The next shot is a tilted shot of Casey on the phone to 'Ghost Face' - this shot includes Casey and the view of outside through the patio windows, this confirms the audience that it is night and the fact that there you cant see much outside adds to the tension.
There is a pan outside showing how isolated the house is and there is ambient sound played as the camera pans.The audience then see a swing swinging on its own, again stereotypical of a thriller/horror movie.
As Casey talks to Ghost Face about scary movies, she begins to play with knifes; this is a suggestion of violence to come. As she walks around the house the camera follows, this shows how she is alond and its also showing the audience that there are a lot of windows and doors making her seem exposed and vulnerable.
When Ghost Face says, "I want to know who I'm looking at," there is a non-diegetic music sting and a zoom in close up of her face reacting to what he has just said. This adds tension and enigma. The camera takes a shot of her garden showing it is empty and also showing how there is a typical scary movie fog outside. The loud popping of the popcorn and the speed of the popping adds a panic to the scene as it begins to explode - this could possibly signify time running out before it explodes.
The phone rings again and there is a creepy soundtrack played over as Ghost Face shouts and swears at Casey, showing how he is now a threatening character. He then says her name and there is another music sting as she runs locking doors in the house the soundtrack becomes loud with a fast tempo, adding panic as the camera follows her running around the house. There is then a shot of the door as she then backs away, seeing it get smaller adds tension to the scene, she backs towards a bigger window so the audience can still see outside and that there is nobody there.
Finally, we then see a long shot of her boyfriend tied up to a chair outside, which then cuts to a midshot showing blood on his face. The camera does a close up of the lock on the door being unlocked then locked again as she goes to get him, before being warned not to; this confirm to the audience that the door is locked for when Ghost Face later enters the house.
Jennifer's Body was released on September 12, 2009 in the USA and Canada. It is a comedy thriller written by Diablo Cody and was directed by Karyn Kusama. Boom! Studios produced a graphic novel as a ‘tie in’, in August 2009.
The movie stars in this film are Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody and Johnny Simmons.
Megan Fox plays a possessed teenage girl, (Jennifer Check) who kills her male classmates as her best friend attempts to stop her.
Amanda Seyfried plays the part of Anita ‘Needy’ Lesnicki, who was once an insecure teenager is now violent and mental. The movie starts as Anita’s flashback while in solitary confinement.
Anita and Jennifer have been best friends since childhood, despite having very little in common. One night, Jennifer takes Anita to a local bar to watch a concert by local band ‘Low Shoulder’. A suspicious fire engulfs the bar, killing several people. Jennifer has been taken by the band despite Anita's attempt to stop her. Later, Jennifer, covered in blood, appears in Anita's kitchen and eats food from the refrigerator. Unable to digest the food, she vomits a trail of black, spiny fluid and then leaves in a hurry. Jennifer seduces the school's football captain, and then attacks him in the woods, naked, where his disemboweled corpse is later found.
A month later, Jennifer is beginning to look pale and accepts a date by Colin, the school ''emo'', only to brutally kill him that night. She rushes home and finds Jennifer in her bedroom who initiates physical intimacy with her and soon explains what happened after the fire: Low Shoulder took her into the woods, and offered her as a virgin sacrifice in exchange for fame and fortune. Jennifer was not a virgin, and when the lead singer murdered her, a spirit took over her body. It is then revealed that Jennifer is a succubus and needs human flesh and blood to survive. She is weakest when she is hungry and must eat flesh to sustain her life and appearance.
Anita goes to Jennifer's home and fights her with a utility knife. Anita finally destroys the demon and kills Jennifer. Anita is brought to an asylum. But because she was bitten by Jennifer, she has obtained some of Jennifer's supernatural powers. She wants revenge for what was done to Jennifer and herself, she escapes the mental facility and hitchhikes a ride to the hotel where Low Shoulder is staying; she makes her way to their room and brutally murders them all.
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This is our new moodboard as our original one was more in line with a James Bond film, rather than our initial ideas for a thriller. This is a much more varied moodboard which comprises our initial expectations of what a thriller should contain. We have found images which suggest violence, tensions and blood. An affliction of the mind is also shown to suggest that thrillers can consist of numerous different psychological problems.
The 180 degree rule:
It's useful because it's establishing the scene and where the people are and the setting, and maintaining the background space and continuity.
It ensures the audience are aware that the characters are in the correct placement
The rule is you cant cross the line unless you show the camera movement. movement not shown clearly could cause, wrong eyeline, characters facing the same way, disorientation (different setting).
By Sophie Tinkler
