Audience profile and Treatment for Mr Grevor

Mr Grevor

Audience profile

16-25 year olds

Unisex

Students, casual workers

Multinational

Demographics - E, D, C1, C2, B and A. Enjoyable for people of all backgrounds. Full of enigma codes - sets up expectations and anticipation

Conventional thriller - not funny, dark, classic protagonist

Strugglers - they seek escape from reality

Explorers - they seek discovery. They will predict the course of events within the film

Relates to Seven in relation to; stalker; photos; notebook

Certificate 15  - this is because violence, blood and horror are main themes in our thriller and are not just brief encounters. Horror of strong threats and the threat of life occur throughout. This will appeal to our target audience because it will keep them intrigued in what is going to happen in the film. 

This is could be shown at; the open evening for year 11s and film and media awards.  

Treatment - Mr Grevor

It’s a normal day; Laura is walking her dog at the Brook when she sees Charlie in the distance under a tree. This alone is an enigma code expressing that Charlie has something to do with Laura. This opening sequence is from an outsider’s point of view. The audience can see what is happening to the characters but they are unaware of each other’s circumstances (dramatic irony.) 

The purpose of the film is to thrill the audience; build anticipation and to keep them guessing resulting in a satisfying ending. This opening sequence is act as a cliff hanger to draw in the audience without revealing the key events of the overall film. Using enigma codes in this opening sequence; the audience can gather suggestions to what the film involves.

Flashes of enigma codes come up as do the titles to hint to the audience what the film will include. 

1. Equilibrium (calm, walking dog, normal day, nothing suspicious)
2. Interrupt (cut to Charlie taking photos of Laura, cut to him in a room, close up of eyes)

The codes and conventions of a thriller which we are going to use are 

- antagonist (male)

- protagonist (female)

- enigma codes - props (scarf, dog, camera, laptop, dolls)

- don’t see the antagonist’s face 

- identity 

• lighting (shadows, hard light)
• music (scary, unpredictable)
• titles (flash of light,camera, then typewriter)
• sound (diegetic and non-diegetic)
• colours (red, danger, eye-catching) 
• mise-en-scene (dark, scary, unaware, unpredictable) 

Influences 

Our influences for our film include Seven (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman), Shutter (Joshua Jackson and Rachel Taylor). These are our influences because they gave us inspiration on what theme music to use, what camera angles to use, what lighting to use and it also gave us the idea to use old cameras for the effect of the flash noise as this would give the audience a jump. The film Mystic River is what gave us our title, its a very tense and cliff hanging film. We misunderstood the title and thought it was Mr.Grevor and this is why we decided to use this as the title for our thriller film. Memento, Seven and Shutter are also other films which gave us inspiration on using cameras, as they use polaroid cameras which also have a big flash and is very effective, for example we were watching the commercial and the flash gave us a big jump; this is why we decided to use cameras and flashes. The cameras also give the protagonist insecurity and make them feel like they're always being watched or stalked.