Film name ideas- Captive

- Skylar

- Trapped

- Hostage

Idea For TeaserGenre: Mystery/Thriller

Plot: A girl has been reported missing and presumed dead because her car was found flipped over without her body inside. A few weeks later her friend see’s her at the train station with a strange man but nobody believes her and thinks she’s going insane due to distress of losing her friend. The main storyline is about the friend and her struggles as nobody believes that she has seen her friend, so she ends up feeling lost and on her own. In the end it turns out that the man she was seen with helped her out of the car accident, however due to having mental issues he held her hostage until she was able to escape.

Target AudienceThriller films are aimed at an audience who enjoy mystery with a high level of anticipation. Their main aim is to create suspense, tension and excitement for the audience. The genre of thriller and mystery can appeal to both male and female as there is sense of enigma and mystery for the audience.therefore, this may attract both genders.

Age range

The age range for thriller and mystery films are usually from 15-40 as this particular genre may not entice audience above 40 as they may find the plot strange or confusing due to the sense of enigma. The classification for audience aged 15 and over should not include imitable behaviour for e.g hanging, suicide and self harming which may be included in our teaser trailer.

CharactersSkylar (Missing/Dead) - This character will be played by Libby Ardley in our group. This works well because Libby is a 17 year old teenage girl which is the same age as the character in our teaser trailer is. This character will be dressed as a typical teenage girl, wearing a basic plain top and jeans. We chose the name Skylar because we wanted to use the letter S to begin the name as it is a sharp, bitter consonant and the name is quite an innocent and vulnerable name, which is the type of character we want to create.

Emily (The girl’s friend) - This character will be played by Millie Smith in our group. We chose Millie to play this part as again, Millie is 17, so she will suit playing this role as this girl is 17 too, considering her best friend who “commits suicide” also is. The characteristic of this girl is caring and kind as her role in the film is, continuously searching for her friend when others have given up.

propsRope

Printed out pictures of crashed car

Newspapers

Idea’s For Poster Layout

Idea’s For Poster Layout/MagazineWe liked this poster layout with the idea of using photoshop to overlay the two

main characters, the friend being the clearer, original picture and the girl who has ‘committed suicide’ being faded in the background. We chose her to be faded as it creates an image of mystery as in the film her character’s whereabouts is a mystery.

From looking at other film posters, we have noticed that they use dark, eerie colours to emphasise the thriller genre of the film.

Idea For Film MagazineEmpire Film Magazine as its suited to our genre and target audience. We researched the films which the magazine have reviewed and these included ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and ‘Don’t Breathe’. Both of these films were thrillers and rated a 15 which matches the genre and target audience of our film which means readers of Empire magazine would be likely to be interested in our film.

Total Film is a UK-based film magazine published 13 times a year by Future Publishing. The magazine offers cinema, DVD and Blu-ray news, reviews and features. Total Film is available both in print and interactive iPad editions for its audience.

Product: Price: £3.99

Content: Reviews, news on upcoming films, features on big new releases, reviews of DVDs etc.

Demographic: 15-35 Young professionals/students, or graduates with significant disposable income

Geographic: UK central the magazine tries to highlight British film and industry talent.

Psychographic: interest in cinema and consuming mainstream media. May have aspiration of working in the industry. Movies will be the main interests in terms of art and culture.

Real Media ProductsIn the thriller, Rachel (Blunt), who is devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

After watching the teaser trailer for ‘The Girl On The Train’ we were inspired to use a similar soundtrack, being current music with relatable lyrics to our storyline as it created an atmosphere when watching.

Our teaser trailer follows a similar storyline to this teaser trailer as we thought that this teaser trailer caught all of our attention and made us want to go and see it in cinemas, so decided to follow the conventions of this media products.