Analysis of Hidden/Cache

This film was created by a French Director.
The film has a slow start which helps to build tension.
The setting is an ordinary situation which then bares witness to an extraordinary circumstance.
The antagonist has power over people by watching. This is a convention which is common to thrillers which make use of stalkers.
The antagonist also leads the protagonist into a situation they have no control over. This use of a loss of control is very key to the building of a thriller since it makes the viewer feel uneasy.
The film has a slow start which can seem boring but it also makes you wonder what you're looking out for as the audience begins to realise that something isn't right and they expect something to suddenly happen. This creates and air of confusion.

Target Audience Expectations

Our target audience will be ages 15 and above, because thrillers tend to have much darker plots than a 12 or PG classification. There will likely be strong language which is not appropriate for people younger than 15.
It will be aimed at people who enjoy thrillers as it will not innovate in such a way that it will incorporate other genre or subgenre's to the film.

It doesn't contain enough Gore or jump out scares to be considered a horror and not enough on screen for it to be an 18. A lot of the scary aspects are from purely atmospheric and tension building techniques.

Classification of Films

U - Suitable for All

PG - Parental Guidance

12 - Suitable for 12 years and older
12A - Under 12 with parental guidance

15 - Suitable for 15 years and older

18 - Suitable for Adults only

R18 - Only available for Adults

Test Thriller Sound

Potential Thriller titles

Our thriller is about people disappearing so these are our idea's for names.

Presence - We thought of this name because it contains supernatural undertones, and hints to the idea that someone else is there.

Lost - We liked this idea but because people were going missing due another being, lost implies that it was their own fault. Also there is a TV Show called Lost

Missing - We like this one because it's so neutral in the idea of whether it's someone else's fault or whether it is to do with the people themselves.

Fade - Fade was also in our top three favourites, we liked it as it suggested people missing in an unusual manner, not the ordinary way (murder, kidnapping etc..)

Thriller poster Analysis

The poster is effective as it uses a lot of themes from the film. The image itself is of a polaroid photo, which is a key theme in the film Memento. They are how the main character records memories. As the photo's go in it shows an image of the female Antagonist.

The poster also shows the audience some of the main actors in the film so that they can see faces who they may know from other similar films

The font used in the Poster is a handwritten style and so it makes it look more personal. The handwriting is also connected to the main film because the main character only trusts his own handwriting.

Our thriller poster

Our poster is laid out so that the left side is full of happier and cheerful images. Whilst on the right there are far more sinister and distressing faces.

Across the top we've used letters from magazines to make the title look more traditionally Thriller styled. There are gaps in the poster to suggest people going missing.

After we had finished the physical elements of the poster, we decided to edit it further using digital applications such as Photoshop. Using this we edited the Hue to make it look red, with the red tint the differences between the magazines we got the images from is less glaring, and it adds a sinister tone to the entire image.