Location, Set and Design

Production Companies

Fox entertainment is an example of a successful production company with a long line of many successful productions. The fox entertainment group was founded in the 1990s, it is an American entertainment industry company that owns film studios, terrestrial, cable and direct broadcast satelite television properties. The company is owned and controlled by Rupert Murdoch.

Fox entertainment have successful movies such as:

.Bride wars

.Street fighter

.Marley and me

.Australia

.The day The earth stood still

Target audience

When talking about target audience within a thriller genre, we all can say that because of the codes and conventions of this genre the target audience is usually for students and above, because of the many story lines that suit the codes and conventions it would not be okey to show younger viewers.

Depending on the type of thriller storyline, In my opinion it would seem males would prefer to watch a action thriller film like The Bourne films, where as females would tend to find romantic-thriller films more interesting.

Young people would usually tend to watch thrillers with sex, drugs and violence because of the entertainment value it can give this age group, also more modernised thrillers would be watched by younger people than older becasue young can possibly relate to many of these modern thriller films.

Sub-genre's (Scary movie)

Scary movie is a well known sub genre as the creators use content from other films to create theirs, such as in Scary movie 1 they use the content of the thriller Scream to create a more comedy approach to it, in others they create spoof movies.

Scary movie produced a sceond movie because of the good effect Scary movie 1 had on audiences, it was creative, clever, funny and original which made it successful; so a second movie was released which the creators pushed the barriers by adding more content from different movies such as the horror movie 'The exorcist' etc.

Music

Music is a really importat feature, music can help provide the intensity of suspense which is a must have when producing a thriller film. An example of a thriller film using music to create this technique is Jaws; the suspense i.e. music is used before the shark is about to emerge or kill someone.


Another thriller film which uses music to capture the audience, is 'Valentine' where in is trailer it uses music as a climax, to capture the interest of the public to watch the movie and also to be entertained. The suspense music is found near the end; a high pitched sound, which is sterotypically used.

Lastly thriller films are sterotypically known to promote intense excitement and high level of anticipation and they do this through mainly music, as a character is approaching the climax of the story. Each of the clips use a fast tempo beat which could symbolise the racing heatbeat of the audience or the character in the dilema.

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks was born July 9th 1956 and during his high school years he attended Skyline High school in Oakland, California before moving onto Chabet college in Hayward, California where he studied Theatre, and after two years, went to California State University, Scaramento. In his early career before making his block buster movies Hank had moved to Newyork to take on roles in movies such as He Knows Your Alone and also performed in Broadway showcase, these productions helped Hank land a agent Joe Ohla with the Micheal Bloom Agency. Hanks began to climb to the top with his portyral of a A league baseball manager in A league of their own in 1992. In 1993 had to successful movies one called Sleepless in seatle and Philidelphia and his portrayal led to "most critics agreed that his portrayal ensure him a place among the premiere romantic-comedy of his generation". Soon after in 1994 Hank had another successful movie Forrest Gump and also had recieved the academy ward for his role; as Hank started to rise as a big successful actor so did his movies where he stared in Apollo 13 and Toy story
Directing and producing was another adventure for Hanks and also delivered many of the best films of all time, he teamed up with director Steven Spielberg and they produced the film Saving Private Ryan, which won several awards such as academy award for best film. he had also directed, produced and wrote the following films:
.Green mile
.Toy story 2
.Band of brothers
.American Beauty
.Catch me if you can
.My big fat greek wedding
.The Terminal
.The Polar express

Match on match action

Match on match action is where you must apply in any video or the video may look from the audience's s perspective that it is out of synchronisation; this can also confuse the audience and the video would not be as good. The auidence can notice that there is no match on match action when for example the actor/actress performing has a shot of her with a cigarette in her hand, but the next shot of her there is no cigarette in her hand, and again the cigarette may be in her hand once more, therefore there was not shot of her putting the cigarette away and collecting it again.