Thanks to the history of Thrillers, this Genre attracts target audiences of both gender, due to the stereotypical protaganists; the male villian and the female victim.
The fans of Thrillers need to see a good mystery that they can work out for themselves to keep them attracted to the film, they want to be able to relate to the film by seeing the typical characters; hero, victim, villian. This way the audience become good predicters of these types of films, but in our opening sequence we want to use these codes and conventions but we don't want to make it too predictable, we want our audience to feel they need to watch more to find out the plot.
We decided that the age range Thrillers targeted was from 15-35. But if we were to go along the certificated age it would be 18-35. It tends to be this age range as people at this age are more matured against the nudity, swearing and violence which may occur during Thrillers.
OUR FILM WOULD NOT APPEAL TO...
- People who don't violence in films
- The Elderly
- Children
- People who have phobia's of certain situations
- People who are against nudity,swearing and violence.
The Thriller film 'What Lies Beneath' followed all the codes and conventions of the Genre and turned out a very successful film.
- It won the ASCAP Award for the 'Top Box Offfice Film in 2001.
- It was nominated for the SATURN Award for the 'Academy of science fiction, horror and fantasy films' in 2001.
- It won the 'Blockbuster Entertainment Award' in 2001.
This information on awards etc, tells me that there could be a space out there for my Crime/Thriller as they have a wide target audience and with all the correct codes and conventions my project could be very successful.
To add to our research we looked at some BFI stats from cinema going stats in 2003. We found that 85% of people between the ages of 15-35 watch crime or thriller films at least once a month, so we are confident that our film will be successful and popular.
Lauren
2 comments:
You need to evidence this audience more - could offer some box office returns of some recent successful crime thrillers or those you are using as your inspirations....may also be worth noting or finishing out what fans get out of watching such films - why they like them, as you need to suggests you will give them what they want... (Mrs D)
what does your last bit of info on What Lies Beneath suggest about your project? that there is definitely an appreciative audience out there? (Mrs D)
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