Target audience example

Questionnaire.

1. What is your favourite film genre?
2. What is your preferred sub-genre?
3. What do you enjoy the most about these genres?
4. What do you expect to see in these chosen genres?
5. Do you prefer a typical storyline or something with a twist?
6. What do you expect to see/find out in the first two minutes of the film?

These questions will help me to understand what target audience's want from a film and I can put this into my film opening to help establish the genre and make the film appealing to my target audience.

Deadlines

Time management

Possible company logo

Ideas.

We decided to choose the company name 'baby potato productions' as we believe that it shows how our film company grows with new ideas. We have not yet decided on a logo and will have to create different possible logos and then make a decision.

Films similar to our ideas.

• Halloween- Horror/Thriller
• Halloween 2- Horror/Thriller
• The silence of the lambs- Thriller
• Wind Chill- Thriller
• Solstice- Thriller
• When A stranger calls- Horror/Thriller
• Mirrors- Horror/Thriller
• The hills have eyes- Thriller
• The Descent- Adventure/Horror
• Disturbia- Drama, Thriller, Mystery
• Scream movies- Crime, Horror, Mystery
• Audition- Horror, Thriller, Mystery
• Let the right one in- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
• The Devil's backbone- Drama/Horror
• Rosemary's baby- Drama/Horror/Mystery
• The shining- Drama/Horror
• Requim for a dream- Drama
• The orphanage- Drama/Mystery/Thriller
• The girl with the dragon tattoo- Drama

Genre options

• Horror
• Thriller
• Romance
• Comedy
• Drama
• Action

We have decided to choose the genre horror/drama and our target audience will be 20-40 year old males and females. To create a horror film we will need effective make-up such as fake blood, costume and props. 

We need to choose our location carefully because it will be important in helping us make our film opening a horror/drama genre. Preferably our location would have to be somewhere quiet/isolated as this will help to create tension during the opening. 

What will we need?

• A camera
• Location(s)
• Actors/actresses
• Props
• Costume
• Make-up
• Sound/Music ideas

Exploring generic conventions

Brief

To create a two minute opening of a new fiction film.