After taking a survey and studying several thriller film openings, I have found that my target audience is ages 15-25, inkeeping with the BBFC set certificate 15 and appealing to what is commonly known as the 'youth market'. I've decided this based on my research and ideas for the film, I want to make something very psychologically thrilling that is hard to understand and will take the viewer time to underdstand exactly what has happened. I also want to represent me and what I enjoy personally and in films, therefore I will be making quite an urban style opening, with lots of dance and storytelling but also with subtlety.
I don't want to make a hollywood style movie that makes it obvious what is going on so that anyone can watch it, I want my viewer to have to delve into their thoughts to understand what is going on and have seperate interpretations. Obviously this is no easy task for a first project and undoubtedly the opening will not turn out exactly how I imagine it now, but hopefully I will manage to get somewhere close to it.
After collating all my research into the genre and Alfred Hitchcock, possibly the most famous directors of thrillers, I'm quite tempted to make a black and white film, mainly to capture an essence of timelessness and to take colour out of the picture as a signifier, colours tells us things and make us feel a certain way and therefore without colour only the camera and shots will do this. However I'm not certain about this decision yet.
My question on the survey about Black Swan and further research into the film told me that it is a very well recieved movie and that ensures me that their is an audience for the kind of film I want to make. I also found when looking at the suggested target audience for Black Swan, it was similar to the audience I had chose previously to the research which was helpful to know.
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