Subgenres and audience

Subgenres and audience

Subgenre – A genre within a genre

• Religious thriller
• Political thriller
• Psychological thriller
• Noir thriller
• Erotic thriller
• Supernatural thriller
• Dystopian thriller

Hybrid – genre mixing

• Action thriller
• Romantic thriller
• Crime thriller
• Sci-fi thriller

Audience categorising

Subgenres

Religious thriller (End of days

The religious thriller is aimed at middle aged men with a high level of religious education; the audience should also be quite religious.

Political thriller (Z)

A political is aimed at both middle aged to elderly men and women with a high level of education and an interest in the news.

Psychological thriller (Se7en)

Psychological thrillers are aimed at intellectual teenagers (male or female) who are interested in the way the mind works.

Noir thriller (Sunset boulevard)

Noir thrillers are aimed at older teenaged to middle aged men who enjoy classic ‘old’ black and white films.

Erotic thriller

Erotic thrillers are aimed at middle aged women and men (they are more likely to be aimed at men) without children.

Supernatural thriller

Supernatural thrillers are aimed at young adults, both men and women, who are intellectual and are interested in things that are ‘out of this world’.

Dystopian thriller

Dystopian thrillers are aimed at teenagers, both men and women, who enjoy books e.g. fairytales but with a twist in the storyline. The target audience are also intellectual.

Hybrids

Action thriller

Action thrillers are mainly aimed at men but women can still enjoy watching them. They’re aimed at teenaged and middle aged men, who like to be involved in action, this audience would either be teenagers or have teenaged children.

Romantic thriller

Romantic thrillers are aimed at middle aged and/or teenaged women. The audience doesn’t have to be intellectual, but they have a true understanding of love.

Crime thriller

Crime thrillers are aimed at middle aged men who like to know who commited a crime before the detective/police officer. The audience has children but like to be alone.

Sci-fi thriller

Sci-fi thrillers are aimed at intellectual middle aged or teenaged men. They live alone and are interested in what will happen in the future (aliens or new technological advances).

Filming Day

On the day will will be driving up to Northorpe to Wood Lane with me,Jessica,my parents (Danny and Shelley) and Jessica's younger sister Nayana. We will film shots in the car and from outside too. Nayana will be playing the victim/child and will be wearing a white dress with a coat over the top to show her purity is being taken away from her. Danny will be wearing a black coat and dark jeans to show the contrast between his dark character and Nayana's purity and vulnerability. Shelley will be wearing normal clothes because she is just a normal mother. We will be filming in the early morning so the lighting is quite dark and eerie, but we will not film until it is light enough to see what is happening. The props we will need to take with us are: Glasses to make Nayana look younger, a car as the main environment, something in the road to stop the car and a teddy bear to show youth and abandonment.

Use of titles

Use of titles

To incorparate titles I will be useing:

• Leaves which will have names on them.
• Trees which will have names ingraved on them, if we are able to without disrupting property.
• The car wheels, to incorporate a title we will show it spin around with the wheel and then fall into the street.
• The number plate can be made to have a title on it.

The car will then drive past moving the titles off the screen.

Costume

Jessica and I spoke about the costume our actors would need.We would then take pictures of them in these costumes.
We decided that the villian would be wearing a trench coat, so we went to the costume cupboard in the drama department to see what they had avalible.

Dialogue

Our thriller opening will not have speech in it. The only exception is at the very beginning when the mother and daughter characters are singing. This shows them having a good time, however the soundtrack the will be singing to will be 'One way or another'. We have decided to use this song due to the lyrics implying someone is trying to find and then take someone away. Therefore the soundtrack foreshadows the storyline. We did not believe we needed any dialogue because this would keep the identity's of the characters unknown and this is a common convention of a thriller.

 

Title

Commandeer

Planning for lighting

We will be filming in the early morning at about 7am, this will give us a feeling of darkness and danger. Although the darkness is a common convention in a thriller, and so will make our thriller opening moer conventional, this will also be a problem. The problem with morning darkness is finding a way to lighten up the shots so they are easy to see. This can be resolved in our thriller in other ways such as:

• Useing lights which are already installed inside the car, but also adding extra lighting through adding smaller lights to the roof of the car.
• Using a torch to highlight the most important features.
• Using lights that can stand next to the camera.