Target Audience

Deciding on a target audience is a crucial point when making a film as in most cases it secures the possibility that the film will be a success, so it is very important that we get it right and research into what they want from our film.

Here is a clip of us disscussing our target audience.

Certification

When deciding on a certificate for our film, we looked at the issues that are focused on in the film such as: mental illness, kidnapping and murder plus the use of expletives. We then researched films with similar issues addressed in them and looked to see what the certificates they had been given.
The symptoms that Cassie shows in the film that we can tell are due to mental illness are very similar to that of schizophrenia as she has hallucinations where she can see Faith, she can't remember being told that Faith died and she has social withdrawal.

 

Here are some of the films that we looked at with simialar issues:

Through A Glass Darkly (1961)

"A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital for treatment for schizophrenia. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband. They are joined by Karin’s father, who is a world-traveling author that is estranged to his children. The film depicts how Karin’s grip on reality slowly slips away and how the bonds between the family members are changing in light of this fact."

Certificate given = 15

Donnie Darko (2001)

 

 

"Donnie Darko doesn’t get along too well with his family, his teachers and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank – a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness (schizophrenia), may never allow him to find out for sure."

 

Certificate given = 15

 Shutter Island (2010)

 

 

 

 

"U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. We are then shown at the end of the film that everything we have seen has been a lie as part of an elaborate fantasy of Teddy Daniels to make himself the hero and erase from his memory the fact that he murdered his wife and children."

Certificate Given = 15