Pitches

1) Combining Genres

After analysing the data from our questionnaire it is clear that the thriller and the musical genres are both very popular for different reasons. Females seem more attracted to the musical films and males to the thriller films. Now to make sure we gain a larger target audience it seems that these two genres are destined to merge.

Simple plotline with a twist would accommodate this new subgenre of musical thriller. Simpley, boy meets girl who already has a boyfriend, boy goes to kill boyfriend and ends up loosing the girl in teh first place. This would change the boys outlook on life and then start killing to climb the career ladder.
The logical thing would be to link it to some sorce of music, for instant the murderer would be part of a musical play or a singer of some description.

The opening would need to suggest the protagonist has sinister and evil characteristics, and will do anything to succeed.

This although in theory seems logical i doubt that the mixing of such different genres would be practical. But it did seem to work for sweaney todd. Also there is another practical issue that I would not be able to find enough decent singer for filming.

2) Spoof of a classic

There are many spoofs out but a spoof of the origonal vampire film Nosferatu could be inventive and extremely amusing. Simpley making fun of the origonal and how muchmore tame it seems today in our world of violence. With spoofs the films are allowed to manipulate the rules and conventions of the genres.

It would be filmed in black and white obviously trying to capture the classical feel. With very simple music playing in the background. Everyone dressed in extreme period costumes and as it was a silent film there would be speach captions.

Now there are two flaws to this idea. Firstly it wouldnt b practical with the priod costumes. Secondarily the films Nosferatu is not as common knowledge and it is possible that people wouldnt get the reference.

This information was obtained from the statistics yearbooks found on the film councils website. It shows an indication on how thrillers have done in the box office, showing their popularity and profit. There is two consecutive years of statistical info to compare and see how, if at all, the popularity of the genre has changed.

2005

• Thrillers made £32.1 million in gross box office profits over 2411 different box office sites. This makes an average of £13,312 per box office site.
• Thrillers only made up 2.2% of overall releases, with their 2 main titles collecting £6.1 million alone. The top title was The Constant Gardener.
• Certificate wize:12A - 9th overall with The Interpreter
  
• 15 - 9th overall with The Constant Gardener
  
• 18 - 3rd overall wih A History Of Violence

2006

• Thrillers made £65.5 million in gross box office profits over 4372 different box office sites. This makes an average of £14,992 per box office site.
• Thrillers made up 2.5% of overall releases, with their 10 main titles collecting £39.4 million. The top title was The Da Vinci Code.
• Certificate wize:12A - 3rd overall with The Da Vinci Code
  
• 15 - 8th overall with Munich
  
• - 9th over all with Children of Men
  
• 18 - 3rd overall with Lucky Number Sleven

Statistic have shown that thrillers has become increasingly more popular, just over a one year period. This supports the questionnaire we created previously except it gives a wider subject area.

Questionnaire

25 people asked

1) Male - 14
Female - 11

2) How old are you?
10-13 - 3
14-17 - 9
18-21 - 6
21 + - 8

3) Rate out of 10
Thriller - 8
Rom Com - 3
Horror - 3
Comedy - 2
Musical - 6
SciFi - 1
Other - 2

4) What do you like most about your preference?
Tension - 8
Gore - 2
Entertaining - 3
Funny - 2
Cheerful - 0
Dark - 2
Realistic - 7
Surreal - 0
Other - 1

5) How often do you go to the cinema a month?
0 - 2
1 - 8
2 - 3
3 - 6
4 - 4
5 + - 2

These results make it clear that amongst the age boundaries of 14-17 the most popular genre is Thriller. This mixed with the preferred tension and realism also helps indicate the type of films that are in demand at the moment.
There seems to be demands for other genres as well this could mean that combining some of these genres would b successful.