Final Piece Plan

Key: Green text: camera work

Purple text = editing

pink text = sound

black text = description

Influences

Influences

Pitch

Pitch

We chose irish names because they're unusual and mysterious and we didn't know anyone with those names so we wouldn't have been influenced by anyone else.

Audience Profile

Audience Research Analysis 
From the research we have conducted, I have decided that my target audience should be 17-25 year old males. My personal research shows that the majority of people who would watch a thriller film are male (59%) and aged 15 to 25 (40%). However, thrillers contain many sub-genres, so perhaps with particular themes e.g. action, comedy, crime, psychological etc, our thriller may appeal to many other audiences other than our target. Many of our interviewees said that they liked action films, so perhaps if we made our film an action thriller then we could attract a wider audience and appeal to a wider range of people. We shouldn't limit ourselves to only males aged 17-25 as they are a small section of the population, as described in the following statement adapted from the national statistics data website. 

"According to the national statistics data released by the UK government in mid-2007 there were 31.0 million women compared with 29.9 million men in the UK population. It was found that boys outnumbered girls and women outnumbered men because at all ages above 31, women outnumbered men."

This shows us that up to the age of 31, boys outnumber girls. Therefore we are targeting a big section of the population, but should not limit ourselves to this segregation of the community. Many girls enjoy thrillers too, so we should include characteristics in our film that girls want to see too, to avoid limiting our audience. 

We should probably make our film more of a 15 rated film as it doesn't seem that many people under 15 would want to watch a thriller (as shown in the chart opposite).  However, our research showed that older men (45 year olds) can also enjoy thrillers so we need to try to allow our film to be appealing to a wide range of people, without putting off our main target audience of males aged 17 to 25. 

Audience Profile

This is Dan. He is 24 years old and at the higher end of our target audience age range. He lives with his girlfriend and their puppy in their own flat in Somerset. He is currently doing an apprenticeship as part of his college course and is training in management. He enjoys walking his dog, playing darts with his friends and earning money. His favourite films include I Am Legend; Batman - The Dark Knight Rises; Inception; Psycho; 2012; Hostel and The Colour Purple. His favourite hobby is creating music - he plays guitar, drums, and can sing too. He has recorded many of his own songs in professional studios and dreams of becoming an international artist in a rock band. 

He enjoys thrillers partly because he really enjoys sport and the suspense of not knowing who will win. This is reflected in thrillers because in many of them, the protagonist and antagonists are unclear and the audience are unaware of who will become victorious by the end of the film. Being 24, Dan mostly enjoys 18 rated films that are more daring with their storyline and content. Dan says "I really enjoy sitting in a cinema and literally sitting on the edge of my seat, my palms sweating and my heart racing because I have no idea what is about to happen next in the film." This is definitely a feature of thriller films, which explains why he likes them so much. Dan is our ideal target audience because he is the type of person who would enjoy a thriller film and then have the urge to tell everybody he knows about how amazing it was. Dan is often spending time on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, so he would be a good target audience because he is the type of viewer who would rave about a film that he enjoys, so the film would get a good amount of word-of-mouth advertising. His frequent social media use coincides with his love for his Xbox and PlayStation consoles, always keeping up with technology. Because Dan enjoys keeping up to date with technology, in order to attract him to watching our film we should make it quite technologically advanced (although not bordering into the sci-fi genre). 

Audience Interviews

This is a collection of all of our audience interviews. We spent 2 lessons going around school interviewing people to get an idea of who our target audience is. Maddie also borrowed the camera after school and interviewed some of her family.
I did get 3 more interviews that weren't included in the final video, so I've included them below.

Simon (45)
What is your favourite genre? Thriller
What if your favourite film? The Colour Purple
What do you expect to see in a film? Realism, it's good when the film is made to look like it could actually happen in real life - it adds to the suspense of the film.
Do you like Thriller films? Why/why not? Yes, I like films that make me sit on the edge of my seat and give me sweaty palms - that's the sign of a good film when it makes you anxious. 
Do you like films where there is a clear good vs evil? No, it is better when the good vs evil is much more subtle and leaves more of a guessing game within the film for the audience.  
What film rating do you prefer to watch? 15s are best in my opinion, as 18s tend to go over the top with the themes and take advantage of their freedom within contents. 15 rated films tend to be more gripping and focus on the plot and characters rather than the gory-ness that is found in 18s. 

Chris (18)
What is your favourite genre? Comedies or thrillers
What if your favourite film? Walking With Dinosaurs / The Wolf of Wall Street
What do you expect to see in a film? Lots of suspense and comedy, the suspense keeps your attention while watching the film and the comedy (subtle comedy is best) lightens the atmosphere and also subtly distracts your attention from what is going to happen next to allow you to be more surprised when something jumpy then happens. 
Do you like Thriller films? Why/why not? Yes. It's enticing to not know what will happen next - a bad film would have scenes that you could guess will happen; keeping the audience unaware of what is about to happen is much better. 
Do you like films where there is a clear good vs evil? Yes, I love that the bad guys are always one step ahead than the good guys, even one step ahead of the audience. 
What film rating do you prefer to watch? PGs, 15s or 18s. 

Daniel (24) 
What is your favourite genre? Thriller
What if your favourite film? Psycho
What do you expect to see in a film? I love suspense and crime
Do you like Thriller films? Why/why not? Yes, crime is great and I like watching films that make my heart race
Do you like films where there is a clear good vs evil? Yes, but keeping the audience guessing who the bad guy is - that's better.  
What film rating do you prefer to watch? 18s because they are usually more daring with the plot.