British Board of Film Classification

So that we knew what age to classify our film as,we had to do some research on age certificates to see what extremities each of the certificates can go to.

 

After questioning a variety of ages we now know that our target audience is going to be aimed at young adults and upwards. We think that classing our film as a 15 will be most suitable as some of the themes expressed throughout (such as violence and disturbing scenes of nature) would not be suitable for anybody under the age of 15. We didn't think that our thriller should be classified as an 18 as there is no drug/sexual references or racial/discriminatory themes.

Audience

We wanted to know what people like to see in the opening of a thriller trailer and how they like to  feel after seeing it, so we went and asked a number of people of different ages some questions about thrillers and their preferences. The questions that we asked included:

-How old are you?
-Do you like thrillers?
-What is your favourite thriller film?
-What do you like to see in a thriller opening?

From our responses, we have found that thrillers appeal to both a variety of ages (ranging from teens to adults) and genders.

Location

For part of our planning, we needed to think about our location so that we knew what we would be working with. We found our location in Darley Dale and took some stills for future reference.