Evaluation 5

In order to attract an audience to our thriller, we took inspiration from a range of different thrillers.  We did this in order to gain an understanding of what types of themes and techniques are used throughout good thrillers. We found that many use the idea of beginning with equilibrium before a disruption such as a crime occurs.  For example, in the film ‘Face Off’ equilibrium is created when the father is shown with his young son on a carousel, and disruption happen when the boy is shot.  This is similar to our production in a way as both involve a young child.  We decide to use this idea in our own film as by creating a sense of happiness at the beginning, this makes the baby’s disappearance seem more significant and prominent.


                                                                                   







In ‘Flightplan’, a claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller, a bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.  Our film will attract a similar audience to this as they will both involve a woman and a child.  Due to this, the main audience for our production is females as the sudden disappearance of a young child is an upsetting event and so will pull on their heartstrings as they can emotionally connect with it.

The build up to these events involve slow and calm music which gradually increases in tempo and volume.  Our production also involves the concept of binary oppositions through the titles where the colours act as representations of good and evil.  We felt this to be effective as it is common thriller convention.

We would create synergy to promote our film by cross promoting it with other products such as music and other things that allow the audience to become more interactive with the production and feel involved.  A website would include the trailer for our production in order to promote the film.  We may also include some sort of game or activity where viewers can become more interactive and feel more involved with the production.  This would also help to sell the film as it would encourage the younger viewers to go and watch it.  We would also include links to download music from the film.  While the film helps to sell the music, the music helps to sell the film for example by promoting it through music videos.  Many thrillers and other genres of film use synergy in these ways like ‘Taken 2’ for example.  When you enter the webpage the trailer immediately begins to play in order to advertise and promote.