Regulated Industry

All modern films are regulated by classification through age ratings. In Britain, this is done through the company BBFC in which each film released is given an age range made specific to who it is appropriate for. A children's film would tend to be classified as U or PG whereas something more mature that may include bad language or violence, for example, may be given a classification of a 15 or 18 as it contains concepts unsuitable for children of a younger age. This knowledge has given us the idea of aiming to make our thriller a 15 to allow us to use much more mature themes. The meaning for each age rating is shown below...

Pitching our thriller

In order to fully explain our ideas and who our target audience was, we prepared a one page pitch for our thriller explaining the key themes and ideas and who the film, as a whole, will appeal to. In this pitch we have included a brief story synopsis, audience appeal, visual realisation (which films, if any, have done similar things) and a target audience. Alongside this we included our proposed title and some rough tag lines. We had intended to share the video of me making the pitch. However, the video file was somehow corrupted and we no longer had time to film it again.

Title

Today we have begun storyboarding our thriller and creating a title that suits the plot. We have decided to use the title Mirage as it is a Psychological thriller above all else. We initially thought of calling it Constitutional Mirage but decided it gave the audience the wrong impression of the film itself.

Comparable products

We have decided to model our thriller on the film, 'The Evil Dead' and British independent film 'Symptoms.' this Is because both of these films have a woodland setting not dissimilar to the setting we are aiming to use in our thriller. We also looked into the various lighting effects used in both films and analysed how they could be used for a much darker eerie effect. We are now looking into how we could implement these lighting effects into our thriller.