Development

Genre:

Psychological Thriller

We have each discussed our favoured genre and we unanimously came to the conclusion, considering budget, time and resources, that the genre of Thriller would have the greatest effect upon an audience.

Of which we quickly deemed that the sub-genre of Psychological Thriller, would engage audience’s the most, as well as this, this the most popular sub-genre within Thrillers.

Examples of Psychological Thrillers include: David Fincher’s Se7en, Alfred Hitchcocks’s Rear Window and Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.

Target Audience:

16+ interested and engaged by Psychological Thrillers

We heavily discussed target audience, despite being somewhat self explanatory.

We concluded that our target audience would be directed towards people fond and familiar with the Thriller genre, particular Psychological Thrillers. In such, audiences expect high levels of tension and anxiety throughout. Due to the nature of which we foresee and tailor our film, we specifically target 16+, we do no cap our targeted age as we believe there is no particular reference to modern popular culture.

Initial Ideas:

Early on were struck with the perplexing (and somewhat worrying) image of a human head inside a birthday cake box. With this we focused on the development of the events that would lead up to this, of which consumed some time.

We we’re inspired by a number of Thriller films, most notably Se7en, Phone Booth, Speed and Memento.