Target Audience

For our thriller, we decided that the best target audience to aim for, would be those to a simular age group to us. Therefore it would be easier to fill a plot with what would interest us, with a style following the pattern that would fit in best. When doing research for what our target audience, we watched films that my group ourselves had watched. While looking at these films, we analysed the features and strategies that made us enjoy the thrillers, we also asked fellow class members, 'What makes you enjoy a thriller film?' in which they gave simular answers . The results included music, slow action that built up to the tension and characters you could relate with. So when creating the idea for our opening we considered these factors, as we wanted to suit and appeal to our target audience.

In regards to film certificate rating, our film would fit the 15 certificate bracket, as we are looking to entertain people of our age range being 15+, but not gruesome enough to be an 18. We looked at the grading for being a 15 certificate, and with our film plot this fitted accordingly.

15 Suitable only for those aged 15 and over.
Nobody younger than 15 can see a 15 film in a cinema. No-one younger than 15 can rent or buy a 15 rated VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UMD or game.


TIME MANAGEMENT

This was an important issue to deal with, as when shooting the opening we had to always keep in mind the maximum opening time was 2 minutes, through our editing we could of course, cut scenes and shorten lengthy action shots. To create a tense and dark atmosphere and establish a plot within this short amount of time, was a challenge but also manageable. When planning, we spend a long time debating over different plot ideas, locations and potential props. We took our preliminary piece as an example and saw how simple and straight forward that task proved to be, so we took the same approach with the opening and tried not to overcomplicate the opening sequence.

We spent a total of 2 weeks, planning thoroughly what we were to film. We met outside of lesson time to try and complete this task as successfully and smoothly as possible. Our first attempt on filming with our previous plot was done, we used the surroundings around us to try and create a dark scene, we had alot of video footage to play with to create a good opening using the APPLE MACS. However looking back on our footage it was not to our satisfaction as the lighting was too dark and plot had not been well established- this set us back in what we thought was our quick process. We had to re-plan our plot and rethink any changes, we decided not to make it too dark, and simply establish a normal sitation that would cause tension. We re-filmed a week later, we were always on top of schedule and never failing for time even though we had to re shoot. After this successful filming, we edited for a week after and finally had a finished piece we were all proud to be part of. Throughout the difficultes we faced (including heavy heavy snow) we always managed to keep on top of time, and finish our filming before deadline.