Audience Profile

After research into audience profiles I created my own audience profile.

Audience Profile for a Psychological thriller

Sex:  Male      Female

Age:

Status:  Married    Single    Divorced    Partner

Education:  High School   College  University/Graduate 

Income(per year): Less than £10,000   £10,000-£30,000     £31,000-£50,000      More than £50,000                                                                                                              

 Here are two other trailers from the psychological genre :

Seven  & TheSecret Window

·         What do you like about the trailers

·         Is there ‘Star appeal’ that makes you want to watch the film

·         Do you feel it fits the genre

·         Which trailer did you prefer

What plot ideas can you think of the relate to the psychological thriller genre ?

Potential names for a psychological thriller film

·         Ghost of future past

·         Animus

·         Demons

·         Never not be afraid

·         Remember

·         Expenditure

Which of the names do you prefer? 

Which one would you say links most the psychological genre?

Who are your favourite film stars/celebrities ?

Can you think of any ‘stars’ that are commonly in Psychological thriller films?

For Psychological thrillers, can you think of any typical/common endings for a film?

Here is our film trailers plot synopsis and a few questions to answer after you have read it.


The film is set in a suburban, quaint  town, a family are brutally murdered, fortunately a young girl survives she is the ‘middle’ child of the family. After being taken to hospital for her wounds she beings to see flash backs of that night. The doctors say her memory is damaged but the unknown face of the murdered haunts her thoughts . To help her remember she finds the help of a ‘viewer’ – someone who can access people’s subconscious memories – She entrust in him her deepest darkest secrets of the past as the viewer begins to unlock the girls troubled mind. AS her memories begin to appear and become more vivid her personality changes and her actions more hostile , she finds herself blacking out and ending up in the psychiatric ward of the hospital. Becoming increasingly nervous and anxious at what the viewer saw in her memories he sent to have her tested, shortly after this the viewer is found dead at the hospital and the girl released. She decides to hire a P.I. Looking through the case over and over the P.I finds a ‘trail’ and begins to act upon it . Suspiciously after this the P.I is murdered , the girl then takes the case back into her own has picking up from where she left off. Months pass by and continuous deaths of those who try to help the girl occur yet the police have uncovered nothing and her case is getting nowhere. For her own safety she is taken under Witness Protection to prevent her from being the next target, the police suspect the killer is tormenting the girl and making her life a living hell. the girl becomes increasingly more agitated and has personality shifts, after moving to her new location the police provider her with counselling and help for her audial. Through this she unlocks more mysterious memories, even remembering murders she was never there to witness. Years pass by and eventually the girl settles and puts her traumatic past behind her, she starts a family and a completely new life. However the dreams and thoughts haunt her still has she beings to see the victims of her past being murdered as if see was looking down on them. One day her daughter finds a journal with records and a dairy entry of each of the victims in her mother’s past, seeing what her daughter has found she is keen to take a look. However she is horrified at what she reads on the blood stained pages of this little black book, eventually reaching the last pages in the book she finds pages entitled with her husbands and each of her child’s names. The book has one last thing written in the back ‘the ending is always the best’ All of a sudden she has a flash back to the night of her family were murdered and then finds herself standing over her husband’s body with a blooded knife and the little black book.

Questions

• What do you like about the story
• What do you think could be improved
• Do you think it fits with the psychological thriller genre
• Would you go to watch this film

From my audience profile I combined the answers and data I found to help influence my ideas for my film trailer.