'Hear My Cry' Target Audience

The genre of my film 'Hear My Cry' is a Thriller/Horror.

Target Audience;

Gender; Mainly Males

- I do personally believe males will enjoy this particular film more than females as stereotypically more males watch horrors than females. 

Age; 15+

- The age rating is 15 as it contains gore, strong language and violence. Also the older generation may enjoy the plot of the film.

Social Group; Adventurous and Crime 

- as it contains an element of both aspects. Adventurous as the young girl has to complete many obstacles she is faced with to get justice of having her murderer caught and locked up in prison. Also Crime as the murderer committed a crime of murdering a young girl and no-one knows who it is, there is scenes that represent an element of crime taking place. 

Trailer Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZlY47eCdas&safe=active

This particular trailer of the new release 'Mama' i find overly effective towards the target audience, as it uses short, dark clips giving no indication of what is about to happen, this is to encouraging them to carry on watching to find out what is going to happen. The idea of having intense music which creates tension to support the genre of the film. The narrator explains the basic plot of the story about the girls been abandoned for five years in the wilderness, this gives the audience a basic overview of what the film itself is about. At the start it introduces all of the main characters so the audience can become familiar with them when they go to the cinema to watch the film itself. A various amount of dialogue is used throughout the trailer for example the women says 'I am not ready for this', this could make the viewer question, what is she not ready for? why is she not ready? who is she not ready for? etc, also 'Mama' is frequently expressed throughout the whole of the trailer, it is ironic as it is the title of the film, therefore this makes the viewer think who is mama?, what is mama? basically the idea of this technique is to make the target audience want to go to the cinema and watch the whole of the film to answer all of their requested questions. The particular part i throughly like about the trailer itself is the ending, as it speeds up raptly both the scenes presented and the music to create tension and show it is an intense film to watch, portrays itself as being a horror, supported by a loud scream.

Movie Poster for 'Hear My Cry'.

I have modified the final product of my movie poster to the above piece. I added a forest background to empathise the fact the young girl goes missing and is suspiciously murdered in these particular surroundings. I added a greeny effect to the image to represent envy of the young girl as she didn't want to be murdered and will do anything to see justice and have her murder caught. I decided to place her in the middle of the page, faded to indicate the fact that she has murdered but is still present by voice and will put up a fight to succeed and have her vicious murderer caught. 'Introducing Brogan Nicholson' is placed at the very top of the page to show she is a new actor staring in the film itself and hopefully this will make the audience want to go and watch the film at the cinema to get the full experience. 'Hear My Cry' is effective in my eyes as it is placed roughly in the middle of the page, representing she is stuck in the forest until she gets justice of her murderer being caught. The words i feel are overly relevant to the film and gives an indication that she is shouting out for someone, anyones help. The slogan of 'Isolated, Lost, Alone' again supports the plot of the film that the young girl is all three of them aspects and it empathises the fact she requires help from her one and only best friend.

Examples of thriller trailers

'Dream House'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeMYPfnST0&safe=active

I like this particular trailer as i find the music creates tension which a thriller trailer is supposed to do for the audience hopefully making them want to go to the cinema and watch the film itself. Also the fact the scene rapidly switch showing parts of the film itself, indicate that something bad is likely to happen, creating suspense. I like the fact the producer decided to introduce all the main characters in the trailer so the audience are aware of them ad who to keep an eye on throughout the film. The scream a little way through the film is presented to show the thriller side of the trailer. Realistic settings are used throughout the trailer  so the audience is easily able to connect with the surroundings and feel more in depth with the film trailer itself. One of the main aspects i particularly like is the fact the producers flick from a scary to normal scenes frequently to keep the audience intrigued. The idea of writing constantly flicking onto the screen giving hints of what is going t happen again keeps the audience interested. The trailer ends with the title of the film 'Dream House' falling apart to show that the house isn't actually a dream house t live in its just irony as it is haunted in some way and actually a horrible place to live.

DEADLINE

DEADLINES

SEPTEMBER
3rd-7th;
Summer task submission and pitch launch 
DECEMBER
17th-21st;
Ancillary task deadlines (Print Work)
FEBRUARY
11th-15th;
Main task deadline
MARCH
18th-22nd;
Final full product dealing
APRIL
22nd-26th;
Evaluation deadline

Graveyard Shot

I think this image of the girl sitting next to a grave is overly effective and i am planning on using a very similar shot. I have decided to have a dark background to make it look dark, but also to empathises the tension of the young girl being in a graveyard at her bestfriends grave, a light will be present on the girl and the grave to make them stand out from the dark, gloomy atmosphere, but also to indicate to the audience that something is about to happen, although they're are unaware of what. I decided to make the girl sit next to the grave with a sad expression on her face to show how much she is missing her best friend. The fact that this particular scene is set in a grave yard increases the tension that something is going to happen to the girl sitting beside the grave.

Forest Shot

I do happen to believe that the scene of Emily (the young girl) running into the dark gloomy forest is the most significant scene of my trailer as it indicates to the audience that something horrific and negative is going to happen but they're unsure on what that may be. I will shoot this particular scene in a similar way to the image shown below, as i find it overly effect. I really like the way the girl is at a distance like no-one is able to stop her, but still in sight to know that someone is behind her, and we don't know if she is going to be ok or not. Also i like how the tree surround her to highlight the gloomy, dark, eery atmosphere I am trying to create for the audience. Also her bright clothes make her stand out like she is unable to hide from the person chasing her, also because it is white indicates she is pure and innocent however tha goes against her as later she is defenceless and murdered  for what looks like no apparent reason.