section 3: brainstorm ideas for your film

After much deliberation and brainstorming our group decided to create a film called Psychotica, our film would be about a girl who can see terrible events before they happen. We chose to make our film in a dark style and we thought this would create a tense and disturbing atmosphere which would be a convention of a thriller film. The dark atmosphere does too go hand in hand with the plot as it has shocking and terrible events taking place which would benefit from the tense and disturbing atmosphere. In our choice to make the film have a dark atmosphere, this could have a knock on effect onto the film classification. It may have to force us to put a high classification like a fifteen or eighteen because a dark atmosphere could be found disturbing for those people in younger age groups. However, when I did some research into other films which have a dark atmosphere such as Batman the Dark Knight and Red Eye, I found that they both had certificates of twelve and this would be good for our thriller film because it would allow us to have a wider target audience and so make greater profits.

The main plot in our film was about a girl who possesses the ability to see terrible events before they occur. We have to make these events seem shocking but we wouldn't make them too gory and disturbing so that the certification could remain at twelve allowing us to maximise profits.

So we would make our film dark, disturbing, with a tense atmosphere, shocking and terrible events will occur but our film will only contain mild gore. This I think would allow our thriller film to have the classification of a twelve.
With this our target audience can now be named, our target audience would be both males and females from the ages twelve to about twenty. I picked this target audience because they are the likeiest people to go and watch a thriller film in a cinema.