Prior to the planning of my product I have decided to research deeper into the thriller genre...
Thriller- A genre of literature, film, and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as its main elements. Thrillers heavily stimulate the viewer's moods, giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror. Films of this genre tend to be adrenaline-rushing, gritty, rousing and fast-paced.
Examples of Thrillers-
Die hard Series-1990 onwards, Directed by Renny Harlin
Drop Zone-1994, Directed by John Badham
Die hard
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. Die Hard follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) as he takes on a group of highly organized criminals led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who perform a heist in a Los Angeles skyscraper under the guise of a terrorist attack using hostages, including McClane's wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), to keep the police at bay.
Introduction
Die Hard is not a discrete, self-contained movement (McTiernan wastes no time before jumping into the meat of the story); so instead we might treat this 'sequences' entry as an example of McTiernan's deft handling of exposition and lean, no frills storytelling. This is very similar to how predator was shot in the introduction. McTiernan favours two shots for much of the film's opening section, mirroring his handling of the group dynamic visible in Predator.
Drop Zone
A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Busey specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Snipes lost a brother to this crew and learns skydiving with the help of tough-but-lovable instructor Butler so he can track them down. Die Hard meets Passenger 57 meets Cliff hanger.
Continuity
Right before the DC qualifying jump begins, a camera operator can be seen filming the crowd underneath the canopy. Although one could argue that he might just be filming for a news crew or making a documentary about the jump, the Panavision film camera he's clearly using is not suited for that sort of work.
In his first jump with his team, one of the characters is mostly shown with an orange cutaway handle. However, immediately after landing, on the same jump, the character is shown with a yellow cutaway handle.
Snatch
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
The film snatch keeps the audience enthralled and interested by swapping between characters.
Audience
There are usualy warnings on the back of DVD cases explaining why something is rated what it is. This way people can know exactly what they are getting into and it also narrows down to a more specific target audience.
The audience which we are aiming to atract with our product is 15+ years of age with no specific sex, although it would be prodominantly males.
The opening of our film will be rated with a 15 certificate due to the aspects of gangs, violence, crime and gambling represented in the film. Despite this it will not be rated with an 18 certificate as it doesnt contain overly expilcit conent.
As a group we agreed that we would stick by this certificate so we organised a meeting on 21/11/2014 at 5.00 pm with the agenda of:
- What makes a feature fifteen films?
- strong violence
- frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').
- portrayals of sexual activity
- strong verbal references to sex
- sexual nudity
- brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
- discriminatory language or behaviour
- drug taking
Our findings:
- The areas can easily be kept within the guidelines as most of these areas wont be involved the only issue that arose was a use of violence within the product. although we can make use of camera shots and effects to give the feeling of a violent seen rather than using actual violence.
Consumers
For the past 50-60 years there have been many different forms of methods for finding out information about consumers and what they would like. an example of how they segmented people for this is Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Maslow wanted to understand what motivates people. He believed that people possess a set of motivation systems unrelated to rewards or unconscious desires.
Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fulfil the next one, and so on. A problem with this system was that it is only applied to a certain group of people of certain class.
Currently there are some more updated and in depth look at consumers. Such as the mosaic family tree.
Following Maslow's hierarchy our product is in the sections of love/belonging and esteem because people go to the cinema to watch films with there
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