Chosen genre and audience

After looking at various genres of opening titles and sequences, Alex and I decided to focus on a crime/thriller genre. Because we are only creating a 2 minute film of an opening sequence and title, we did not have to create a full plot story so the first part of our film mainly covers the thriller genre, the crime aspect would be in the film later.

There are many types of hybrid thriller films. Here are some of the hybrids I found and a list of films that I have seen as examples:

Action adventure thriller - examples: North By Northwest, James Bond, Indiana Jones, the Bournes,
Crime thriller - Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Sci Fi thriller - examples: Alien, Terminator 2 Judgement Day,
Western thriller - examples: 3:10 To Yuma,
Horror thriller - examples: Psycho (1960), The Sixth Sense, Jaws
Psychological thriller - Black Swan, Requiem For A Dream, Fight Club,
There are even such hybrids as 'Fantasy' thriller' such as the 1993 film Jurassic Park and even 'romantic' thrillers such as Mr and Mrs. Smith (2005), Charade (1963).

We researched into audiences and found that our audience would similar to that of the films I researched. Our audience would be both genres but mainly more focused on males instead of females (the females more than likely preferring rom coms and dramas to thriller and crime) but this does not say all females dislike the thriller genre. The age range our audience would be would be 15+ almost definitely, because most crimes involve weapons, blood and violence. There is no limit on the age range as thriller is a popular genre and many older people are interested in it, but for the case of our research into audiences, the age range would be 15-40 roughly.

For this specific part of researching for the course, I looked at these films for inspiration for our main task:
Memento
The Island
Inception
The Dark Knight
Limitless
Black Swan


As film's can be a hybrid of more than one genre, Alex and I liked the idea of our thriller tying in with elements of Film Noir thriller also including spy film elements.

Film Noir is a term used when describing many classic Hollywood crime dramas from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Of course, Film Noir's still exist today. The word Film Noir traditionally means 'Film Black' which refers to black and white so Alex and I are considering having a part of our film in black and white.
Film Noir's typically involve characters in suits, with briefcases and cigarettes. Top hats are too often used as well as guns and fast cars. Alex and I like the idea of our film being a 'thriller/film noir'

Here are a list of other thrillers which resemble that of the Film Noir genre.
James Bond
Shutter Island
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Pulp Fiction
Taxi Driver
The Godfather
Strangers On A Train