Our chosen Target Audience

We have decided to aim our psychological thriller film at older teenagers and adults in their early twenties as they're the age group that within our research seemed to know a lot more about these less conventional thrillers than any other age range. We have also chosen to aim our film more towards females of this age as again they seemed much more interested and had stated that they'd previously watched a psychological thrillers and enjoyed it. Although females are less likely to visit cinemas than man, we feel this film would me much more appropriate for them and posters, and trailers etc would persuade them to watch the film. However during research we have discovered the age group we have aimed our film at is that age group that most U.K films are aimed at meaning we have lots of competition, perhaps making it harder to create a profit overall. The language that we're using will be English as this is again the language of films which produce the biggest gross profit.

This next information is from the website: http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/15-2/

Suitable only for 15 years and over - No one younger than 15 may see a ‘15’ film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a ‘15’ rated video work.

Discrimination - The work as a whole must not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour.

Drugs - Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous substances (for example, aerosols or solvents) is unlikely to be acceptable.

Horror - Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.

Imitable behaviour - Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised.

Language - There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’). The strongest  terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.

Nudity - Nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without strong detail. There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context.

Sex - Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable unless justified by context. Works whose primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

Theme - No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds.

Violence - Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic or sexualised violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but any portrayal of sexual violence must be discreet and have a strong contextual justification.

When creating our film we must assure that we refer to these guidelines to assure our film is suitable for our chosen age group. 

Target Audience Research

This research shows us how our film shouldn't be aimed at young teenagers, this is because during our videoing and questioning we discovered that people aged between 15-17 weren't necessarily interested in films that involved anything psychological, they were however interested in modern conventional thrillers that involved chase scenes and car crashes rather than our film which will hopefully include mind games, and complicated scenes that engage the audience into believing something that isn't necessarily true.

The two videos above show the age range of our target audience; 18-24. We have chosen this age group as they knew what would be involved within a psychological thriller and stated that they had previously been to the cinema to watch them. We also asked our target audience what the films were that they had seen, as this would therefore give us something to base our film around as it had previously interested our audience.

Our previous thoughts were to go with an audience 25+ however after interviewing that certain age group we found out that they were very uninterested in thrillers all together and therefore it wouldn't do us any favours having them as our audience as we would have to work around the main conventions of a modern/psychological thriller to make it more suitable for them.

In this sequence of the film Se7en, the camera does a numerous amounts of close ups of a variety of different objects in the film. This can show the audience what is happening at the start and trying to make them think what is going on. The first image we see at the start is of an old book which looks quite beaten up as the pages in it look faded and crisp. Also at the same time a bit of text comes up stating that the film is present by "New line cinema".
They have used quite odd font which seems to have been written over a couple of times with a pen. This gives a sense of anger or maybe frustration. Also it fits in with the music which is in the background, the music in the background is a thunder sound but with scratching. This ties in well with the font as it looks as if the font has been scratched quickly and messily to created a sense of rush.
This font relates to the film/ genre of this film as it is a thriller and the text looks as if it should be in a thriller based film because it looks sketchy and as if someone wrote it quickly to try and get out of somewhere they are trapped. Also, the font gives off a jumpy vibe when the title sequence is on because it jumps when it is on, which a connotation of this could be that it gives the audience a sense that something is wrong or something is going to happen which isn't going to be good.
On the other hand, throughout the sequence the camera has filmed in a low lighted room which gives of dark colours for example, black, a dark faded blue, grey and a faded green. This fits in well with the genre of the film because the conventions of a thriller are low lighting and dark colours which gives the sense that everything isn't going to be happy in this film.
However, the images used in this sequence work well together as it shows the audience that a man making something, cuts himself with the needle, puts a bandage on it and then starts to write something in the book that was shown at the start. It then goes on with an image of a boy and the character crosses the boys in the photo eyes out, which could signify that the character is going to go after that person in the photograph and try to get rid of him.
After that is shows images of the character making some sort of book and he is cutting out the word "God" to put into it which indicates that the character is a religious man.

Frame By Frame Of "The Ninth Gate"

Frame 1: In this frame the camera is doing a wide shot, which is when the subject is taking up the full frame. With this shot it has showed us what is in the room that the character is in to try and give the audience a grasp of what the character is like.

Frame 2: In this frame the camera has closed up onto the chair to signify that something is going to happen with it. From the carpet and furniture around it, you can tell that the character is old fashioned.

Frame 3: In this frame the camera done a tilt angle going up which then gave the audience a close up shot of a rope to indicate that something bad has/ going to happen with it.

Frame 4: In this shot, the camera done a jump cut to get to this angle of the man. From this angle you can see what the man is doing and what is in the room. For example, The photograph next to the man could signify something.

Frame 5:Again, in this shot the camera has done another jump cut to the man's feet to show that he is walking towards the chair in the previous shots. This indicates that the man is going to get onto the chair.

Frame 6: In this frame the camera done a jump cut to the man standing on the chair and grabbing the rope. This shows the audience that he is about to commit suicide by hanging himself.

Frame 7: Here the camera done another jump cut to the man's feet to show that he is rocking the chair to try and make it fall over so that he can hang himself.

Frame 8: Here the camera done a jump cut again to the lights flashing as when the man jumped he broke the light with his force.

Frame 9: In this shot the camera jumped cut again the show that the man is not stood on the chair any more and is hanging himself. It shoes you a close up on his feet, to show the audience that he isn't touching the floor and having a fit when he is loosing his life.

Frame 10: With this shot the camera has done a tilt angle where it moves upwards to show the audience the desk of which the ma was sat at, at the start of the clip.

Frame 11: Here the camera zoomed in on the letter, which the man was writing on at the start of the clip. It then follows on with doing a close up of the letter, as it does this is then uses a shallow focus shot.

Frame 12: In this shot the camera done a pan shot, which means it made moved right to show the audience what is in the room. As it does this shot it then follows through with doing a mid close up of a book rack in the room.

Frame 13: After the close up in the previous shot, the camera continues to do a panning shot to show the audience that the character had a book collection. However it could also indicate that the character was well educated and quite intellectual.

Frame 14: In This shot the camera done a close up of the missing book place which then lead us to another place which is called a graphic shot.

Frame 15: In this shot the camera is zooming in where the missing book was, which then leads the audience into another place that we don't know what it actually is. Which then opens another door to another dark place which then shows us just the names of the actors in the film.

Richard Kelly

James Richard Kelly was born March 28 in 1975. Richard is an American film director and writer, best known for writing and directing the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001.
The film Donnie Darko was given a budget of only $4.5 million. This was his first feature and was nominated for 21 small awards, winning 11 of them, including a nomination for a Saturn Award. This film was then later number 2 on Empire Magazine's list of 50 greatest independent films of all time.
Richard Kelly's fourth film and second feature, Southland Tales, a rough cut of which screened in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, was released November 16, 2007. In this film was a numerous amount of stars such as, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Kevin Smith and Miranda Richardson.
Even though Richard Kelly's films differ between characters and settings, they all share the same themes of time travelling, existentialism and spirituality.

Brad Anderson

Brad Anderson Was born in Madison, Connecticut 1964. He is the son of Pamela Taylor Anderson. He is an American film director that mainly does thrillers, horrors and television projects. He is best known for directing "The Machinist" that came out in 2004, who starred Christian Bale.
His two most recent films were the well-received Transsiberian, that came out in 2008, a thriller starring Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, and Ben Kingsley, and the horror film, Vanishing on 7th Street, that came out in 2010, starring Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo and Thandie Newton. However, both Transsiberian and The Machinist were funded by Anglo-German production companies.
In 2002 Brad Anderson was one of the members of the dramatic jury at the Sundance film festival.
Also, at one point Brad was one of the candidates to direct the Paranormal Activity sequel.
On the other hand, Brad Anderson has not only directed films but he also does television series. for example he has directed a numerous episodes of the series "Fringe" as well as two episodes of "The Wire".
For the future Brad Anderson is planning to direct another film called "The Living And The Dead" which is based on the novel by the same name of Robert Tinnell and Todd Livingston. Also after working together on The Machinist, Anderson and Bale currently plan to collaborate again on an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel, Concrete Island.

David Fincher

Born on the 28th of august 1962, in Denver, Colorado, USA. Fincher is best known for his dark thrillers such as, Panic room, Seven, The game, Fight Club and Zodiac. He began making films with a small camera at the age of 8 which were inspired by the 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In 1983 he was hired by the company industrial light and Magic where he worked on productions for Indiana Jones and the temple of doom, Twice Upon a star and also Star wars: Return of the Jedi. He stayed with this company for a year and then left to direct a commercial for the American Cancer Society. This particular commercial bought him to the attention of producers in L.A where he was given the chance to direct the documentary ‘The beat of the living drum’. Fincher also directed many famous music videos such as Madonna’s – ‘Vogue’, and ‘Express yourself’. Finchers most recent film ‘The girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ has awarded him many awards. Fincher also uses many of the same techniques within his films such as many of his films ending with a suicide both attempted and successful. Also low key lighting, many wide, and low angle shots, and many of his films include flashbacks for characters involved.