Defining our Target audience for our Action thriller

Things that define a target audience are;

• Age
• Gender
• Interests
• Social economic status (A - E)
• Nationality

Age and Gender
After discussion we have decided that our target audience is going to be Males between the ages of 18 - 45. We have done this because we think our film would be an "18" certificate from the BBFC because all of the action scenes and the swearing with the gore that our film might have will not be suitable for a young child to sit down and watch and I believe the most people to watch our film would be in the early 20’s because they will go out with their friends and watch an 18 certificate because they enjoy watching the films and they are always up for a laugh.

Social Economic status

Our audience will be D to C1, which means from the working class to the lower middle class. We have chosen this because this section covers most of the population and the people within these classes would go to the cinema to watch this film because action thrillers are what people like to see because it gets the viewer off their seat and gives the viewer a rush which they like.

Nationality

Our nationality of our audience will be of any nationality because our film can be shown anywhere in the world as long as they change the language, we have chosen any language because our film will not dis-grace any country in it so I believe a person of every nationality will be able to watch the film and enjoy it because everyone loves a good action thriller. i believe the main nationality of our audience would be British and American because they can understand the language of the film and the Americans support most of the British cinema and they would like to see the film.
        
Interests

  The interests of our target audience will be that they like to watch thriller films because someone who watches thrillers would understand what they get when they watch them, someone who watches adventure films may not understand the brutality that a thriller film has because they are just not use to watching this type of film.


By doing all of this research has allowed me to have a clear image of our stereotypical watcher of our film and we can be put in their shoes abd imagine what they would like to see in our Action thriller.



Our typical film viewer



Our preliminary task

For out preliminary  task we hade to film someone walking through a door and having a conversation with someone, we had to also include a match on action to show the examiner that we could use a match on action properly before going out to film our final opening 2 minutes.
                                     Here is our preliminary  task;



Film task one from Kyran Davies on Vimeo.


We have learnt from this that we could use a match on action well and that we have learnt a  lot of things from the camera and the quality the camera held. I was the camera operator and Alex walked through the door and started talking to Sam.

The codes and convention's of Action thriller's

My first task is to research the codes and conventions of my Sub-genre which i have chosen, I will be writing about how the codes and conventions used in my sub-genre help contribute to the overall success of the film. I am researching the codes and conventions of this sub-genre because this will help me understand what i am letting myself into by choosing this sub-genre as part of my coursework, the codes and conventions will set a guideline for what I must do in my film, these are the typical features that these films often have and that distinctively set the sub-genre apart from any other, these are what the viewer will often look for to tell the genre of the film and see if the film is any good, so by researching the codes and conventions will help me a lot when filming and planning my film.

The codes and conventions in Action thriller films.

I will split this category into 3 groups;

• Technical (camera shots & techniques)
• Symbolic ( clothing & colours)
• Written and audio (music)

Technical

• Action thriller films often have a low lighting on the bad characters to show the audience that these characters are bad and they have shadows on their  face making them dark and mysterious.

Mysterious person



• Action thriller's have fast paced cuts between shots to keep the viewer off their seat during the heat of the action.
• Action thriller's also have extreme close up's on the characters faces to show their expression and their emotion when all the action and tense moments are happening.

Symbolic

• The characters often have blood on their body to show the viewer that they have been close to the action and drama which would lead to them having blood onto them.
• The charcaters often start with nice clean clothes and end the film with their clothes being scruffy which is a symbol for their situation and they started all happy and now they are distrought which is in their clothes.

  

  Nice clean clothes

  

• The characters are normally in their late teens when they are stereotypically most likely to go out partying with their friends and get into sticky situation's.

Partying teenagers



Written and Audio

• Action thriller's have faced paced and dramatic music to help add to the tense moments to create supspense and to match the action that is happening with the music
• The characters often scream to add affect that the position they are in they dont like and never wanted to get into that situation.
• Action thrillers often have music to suit the characters personality, e.g when a bad guy enters the frame the viewer would hear dark music because the character is bad and this lets the viewer know.



Green zone


The things i have learnt from doing this research about this sub-genre are;

• I know what i must do to make my film fit into this sub-genre and what the target audience will exect to see in my film.
• I have a clear mind in which sub-genre i will make for my final film. 
• I know how the camera which we are going to watch feels like and the many things we can do with the camera in terms of positioning and the quality of the image. 

What sub-genre have we chosen for our film?

 After discussion me and Alex have chosen "Action Thriller" as out sub-genre for our film. We have chosen this as a sub-genre because we have the resources available to us to do this thriller film, we have costumes and settings to us to be able to do this and we think that as a pair that we would be able to do this sub-genre the easiest then the others, we have also chosen Action thriller because we would be able to re-create secenes in the thrillerand we could look like children and the soldiers so we do not need to have that many people in our film and less people means that they will be more reliable.
                            Some films with this sub-genre for their film are ;



 

The Hitcher






Salt




Taken

  From doing this i have learnt about the sub-genres in films and about how genre is dieing out but these new genres are being born. Also i have learnt what sub-genre we are going to do in our film and how this will be important for our film.