In accordance to my group’s research, the analysis had found that mainly male teenagers were familiar with thrillers and enjoyed it on a daily basis, and a horror sub-genre had fit their key interest. Also, in a month, the majority watch one to five thriller films, which is the lowest amount amongst the category. On average, films certificated with an 18 were more enjoyed than 12A and 15, showing young/mature teenagers preferred to watch film above their age limit, which conveys, extreme levels of intensity with a thriller is favoured within this audience. More so, these teenagers tended to have a preference of a cliff-hanger to a resolution of the thriller movie; further conveying the type liking to films that linger in the mind.
Overall, I can conclude from this, and ideal movie for this specific target audience within the age range of young teenagers to 20 years of age would be, a horror thriller with a certificate of 18, which is ended in a cliff-hanger, with conventions specifically suited to the likings of a male, however with a common appeal to females as well, to broaden the audience range. Nonetheless, certain popular films like Paranormal Activity, Scream, The Ring, Inception and Bad Boys, were commonly favourite between the interviewees, which falls under the categories of action and horror. Therefore, we have determined to base our thriller on this combined genre of action-horror. Also focusing on the features that will attract the viewers is vital, therefore to embed these techniques in the production of our opening sequence, we would need to focus on analysing the desired existing movies, and extract useful information; so when it comes to filming, these properties will be enforced.
To be able to familiarize with the characteristics of the film we aim to create, is inevitable to be a difficult process, considering two sub-genres are being combined (action/horror), which means the group need to concentrate on covering all the elements that can montage together without juxtaposing each other; these can be planned when we are storyboarding ideas for the finalized film, hence looking deeper into the movies that are greatly popular amongst our target audience, to see which films work with each other, thus basing our final piece on these movies. General ideas and thoughts have been drawn amongst the group without having a confirmed plan, so we plan on officialising, after our in-depth analysis of these films. In this first step, we all distributed the films between us to watch all the movies and share ideas on a verbal note, but similar ideas will be recorded for official reference in the near future. We do plan on having more group discussions, in an improvised manner just to acquaint with each other’s goals, and narrowing down a specific storyline.
Nevertheless, we also plan on drawing views on personal experience and encounters with useful and relevant movies, as well as summarising ideas from class notes and personal research. Moreover, looking into mise-en-scene, lighting, camera-work, props and so forth, this will allow us to get a vague feel of what expectations will need to be met in the making of our film. For instance, visiting locations to see if it is appropriate enough to use for our movie and such. Also one crucial part we plan to achieve is having feedback from professionals in this field, such as directors and producers in the specific genre of action and film, which will benefit our knowledge.
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