The document discusses various types of thriller films and their target audiences. It begins by defining the thriller genre and explaining how it engages viewers emotionally through suspense, tension, fear, and excitement. It then describes some key thriller subgenres like psychological thrillers, action thrillers, and horror thrillers. For each subgenre, it analyzes their target demographics and example films. It also discusses the process of distributing films and names some major film studios and independent distributors.

1. By Fahad Nazor

2. The Thriller is one of if not the biggest film genres ever to exist and be invented, as
you may already know it contains many subgenre’s within itself that can all be
categorized into completely different movie types that contain many different
codes and conventions but all meeting the same success criteria, which is; using
scenes from the movie/film to effectively engage the viewers in order to create
feelings of: suspense, tension, anxiety, fear, curiosity, excitement and the
stimulation of an adrenaline rush which are all the ingredients that add up to create
the important emotional aspect that make Thriller movies such a thrill to watch to
the people who enjoy the experience of having all those feelings built up into them
during a special period of time, whether in the cinema or at home.
Although the codes and conventions of each and every sub thriller genre may be very
similar, there are some differences to them that make each distinct from each other.
These different rules often have the purpose of attracting and fulfilling the
pleasures of a many different but certain audience types with similar audience
demographic information. For example…

3. The psychological thriller is one of the most technical and complicated thriller
subgenres because of the demand of its codes and conventions.
The target audience of a psychological thriller would include BOTH male and
females aged 18+, age is very important in this subgenre because it commonly
includes a large use of violence and some psychological issues and events that
can be too disturbing and explicit for younger viewers. However it is said that
psychological thrillers tend to be very popular with men aged 18-25 who are in
the process of facing the transition from teenagers to young adults but still
have the elements of a teenager’s characteristics within them that would give
them that urge and dare to test there emotions with the bonus of pleasurable
violent scenes through this type of movie. But it would mainly consist of
viewers of that specifically enjoy and get pleasure from watching blood filled,
super natural and mysterious moving pictures.

5. The Action thriller is definitely one of the most popular of the many thriller
subgenres that we can be familiar with. This is mainly due to its very large
‘mass target audience’ and pleasurable features as well as its exciting
although very expensive codes and convention baseline rules.
This chart shows a number of different types of movies released on one
weekend in the U.K (Weekend 11 - 13 October 2013 UK box office)

6. Just by looking and studying that table which I found from
http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/film-industry-statisticsresearch/weekend-box-office-figures
I could see that just in that week a total of 10 out of the 15 movies released were
action thrillers of some sort which is 2/3rds equaling about 67 % showing how
the genre took up the majority in the type of movie genres released in that
week itself. Looking further on into the chart, I could also see that most of the
action thriller movies e.g. white house down and insidious 2 made a Total
Gross income (to date) of numbers way over the 1million mark in terms of
profit. This researched information itself justifies my point that action thriller
movies are one of the most popular of the thriller genre as the demand from its
mass audience is very high which therefore allows me to come to the
conclusion that, the reason why thrillers like these are so successful is because
of its mass target audience, the more people that want to watch your movie
which in this case is nearly everyone, as it can distribute many different type of
pleasures through the thrill in its action for people of all ages all backgrounds,
all races and both genders.

8. There are those thrillers that are borderline horror films, they contain very
similar codes and conventions but with abit more suspense and excitement.
Films such as M. Night Shyamalan films , Signs, The Village are all very
typical good examples of the this as they make it easy to tell the difference
between a basic horror and a thriller under the subgenre horror. Since
they're close to horror (and horror films tend to mainly target teenage girls
to get the best out of the thrill they try to distribute), the demographic
would be slightly different... probably younger and a bit more male based/
focused school kids and teenagers. This because of the extra inclusion of
violence and highly tense scenes which young males like to challlenge
themselves with.

10. The genre of my opening sequence will be a horror thriller. I will first of all make
sure this will be easily recognizable by viewers and my targeted audience by
using sinister music, non diagetically, with a few diagetic sounds added in,
rare viewing of the main characters in the sequence which will add mystery
and intrigue the audience. The lighting will be low key with a large and
consistent use of the color black white and grey not only to keep the viewers
guessing and create suspense right from the beginning but to also how that
the film will not be comedic or upbeat with possible violence. The camera
shots will be jumpy and will quickly cut between different angles.
The target audience for my title sequence will be people who like dark, exciting,
suspense filled ‘scary’ horror thriller movies with confusing plot twists and
bloody action. YouTube statistics on some trailers of horror/thriller movies
has told me that my main target audience would be females between the
ages of 13 and 19, and males between the age of 18 and 30. This is a very
specific round up due to the fact that the element of horror within this type
of movie will be shown to be most effective when shown to young female
because of how they’re known to be easily frightened although very daring
when it comes to watching horrors which is perfect. Whilst the audience
young men are easily attracted to such movies because of their willing urge
to challenge themselves and their emotions by watching films of high
emotional capability and demand.

11. Examples of other films that the audience I am intending to reach might
have watched include the following, Scream, Seven, Woman in black and
insidious. These are some of my influences to the type of film I am
planning on creating an opening sequence for. They have psychological
elements to unnerve and confuse the audience, causing suspense
meeting the horror success criteria.
With my target audience overall, I am looking to connect to a wide range of
people from young teenage girls still in school who enjoy typical girly
hobbies like sleep over's who will be easily tempted to watch my sequence
but also easily scared allowing it to come to full affect, to young pride
filled male adults who enjoy watching such tension packed, suspense
building, emotion challenging movies for the fun and thrill of it.

12. The distribution of a film (or movie) is the process
through which a movie is made available to watch
for an audience by a film distributor. This task may
be accomplished in a variety of ways; for example,
with a theatrical release, a home
entertainment release (in which the movie is made
available on DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc) or
a television program for broadcast syndication and
may include digital distribution. The main aim of
the company by distributing the film is for it to
reach the target audience intended at the most
effective time and with the most efficient way if this
is done successfully then the film companies benefit
as they make profit from its release to consumers
who will bring the money.

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Someone has an idea for a movie.
They create an outline and use it along with big name actors to promote interest
in the idea.
A studio or independent investor decides to purchase rights to the film.
People are brought together to make the film (screenwriter, producer, director,
cast, crew).
The film is completed and sent to the studio.
The studio makes a licensing agreement with a distribution company.
The distribution company determines how many copies (prints) of the film to
make.
The distribution company shows the movie (screening) to prospective buyers
representing the theaters.
The buyers negotiate with the distribution company on which movies they wish
to lease and the terms of the lease agreement.
The prints are sent to the theaters a few days before the opening day.
The theater shows the movie for a specified number of weeks (engagement).
You buy a ticket and watch the movie.
At the end of the engagement, the theater sends the print back to the
distribution company and makes payment on the lease agreement.

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Cbs films
All star pictures
American film intitute
Columbia pictures
Universal studios
20th century fox
Warner Bros
Paramount films

15. An Independent Distributor is a person who sells products for a multilevel marketing
company while acting as an independent contractor. They are also sometimes called an
Independent Representative (IR) or an Independent Sales Representative.
 a distributor is an individual or organization who will represent your film at festivals
and markets around the world and who will attempt to sell it to television (including
terrestrial, cable and satellite), airlines and other companies that show short films. The
major short film distributors in the UK are (in alphabetical order): Dazzle, Futureshorts,
Network Ireland TV and Shorts International.
 Whereas a major distributor is generally an organization who handles the theatrical
release of a film in a particular country as well as the marketing and circulation of films
for home viewing (DVD, Video-On-Demand, Download, Television etc). Often feature
films have different independent distributors representing them in different territories
and different distributors handling the home-viewing circulation. Independent film
distribution in the UK is generally managed by indie distributors such as Metrodome,
Optimum Releasing and Momentum.

16. Metrodome Group Ltd: is a London-based company that owns, manages and
distributes film, TV and digital content. The Company operates through
two divisions: Metrodome Distribution (features films and home
entertainment in the UK) and Hollywood Classics. The Company's library
of rights includes over 300 feature films. This successful compoany have
distributed many films such as the very successful and popular ‘Scarface’
and ‘Blow out’ and Alfred Hitchcock's ‘Sycho’ for example. Metrodome
represent Warner Bros. (MGM titles from before 1986), Universal Studios
and Twentieth Century Fox
They’re main methods of distribution are international exhibitors,
broadcasters and home entertainment distributors. This group are also
involved in distributing a growing number of studio classic films for the
DVD markets as well as a library of over 700 (mostly European) films for
television, DVD and VOD.

17. Ignite films: is a B2B distribution company for a world-wide market.
Ignite films has more than 20 years of broad experience in the restoration,
marketing and distribution of (American) Classic Film. Formerly known as
TV Matters, IGNITE owns, maintains and sells media rights to more than
200 Classic titles world-wide. From 1996, the company had significantly
upgraded over 100 Classic films from its Digital Library through digital
wetgate transfer from film to tape, color correction and digital audio and
video restoration.
Starting in 2004, IGNITE FILMS began the exciting transition to High
Definition standard; performing film transfers from the original film
elements (held at UCLA Film & Television Archives) of its Select Features
Library. IGNITE is dedicated to the films of the past and committed to
using the best technology available to present them far into the future!

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