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Have I identified the target audience for the thriller and presented
the information?
Thriller:
Sub Genres and Audiences
Create a pitch
You are an advertising company
You need to create an audience profile for each film
Describe the typical target audience
Get screen shots from the trailer and their advertising campaign and explain
why they would be the typical audience?
Your Pitch
Pitch your film to your group
Write down the profile of each film
Secretly Nominate the best group Pitch
The best Pitch
Presentation skills
Eye contact
Excellent visual presentation
Uses good shots from film
Uses excellent examples from advertising campaign
Uses psychographics
Uses demographics
Uses socio-economic status
Have you got a clear idea of the typical audience?
How to assess Points
Presentation skills /3
Eye contact /3
Excellent visual presentation /3
Uses good shots from film /3
Uses excellent examples from advertising
campaign
/3
Uses psychographics /3
Uses demographics /3
Uses socio-economic status /3
Have you got a clear idea of the typical
audience?
/3
What I feel worked well?


You could improve
Total /27
Example
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Why Study Film Noir?
The first thrillers in
mainstream cinema.
Hugely popular in their
day.
Extremely effective use of
mise-en-scene and
lighting.
Highly influential on
modern cinema.

What is Film Noir?
A hero with a past
A fatal woman (Femme Fatale)
Always set in the big American cities.
At its most popular immediately after WW2.

Main Themes: Sexual politics, deception, crime, the past catching
up with you.

Noir Stations
There are 5 stations
Expressionism
Femme Fatale
Post WW2
Hero
The City
You will need to create a fact-file on each station
You will need to find a modern film that embeds those
features
Write the name of the film at the back of the last sheet
WHEN YOU SWITCH STATIONS YOU NEED TO FIND A
DIFFERENT FILM!!
You will have 5mins on each station
Hero (with a Past)
A man of middle years (old
enough to have lived, but
not past it completely).
Often embroiled in a plot not of his
making.
Helpless to resist the sexual
advances of the femme fatale.
Usually dies at the end of the film
(tragic hero?)
Often played by Robert Mitchum or
Humphrey Bogart.
Femme Fatale
Sexually liberal woman
Gets the hero into trouble
Double crossing
Murderous
Tends to wear her hair draped
over one of her eyes.

Laura Mulvey: The Male Gaze
A feminist theory that states that the media has a masculine
ideology
When men see a woman actor they look at her, and when they
see a male actor they look with him or put themselves in his
place.
When women see a woman actor they also look at her, and
hence see her through a male gaze.
The City
A place where sin is rife!
An impersonal setting
A capitalist setting
A dark place
An unfriendly place
A modern place!
Post WW2
Male insecurity in returning to a
female dominated world.
Women using their wiles to regain
control.
Man is no longer a hero (soldier),
does he have to be a villain?

The influence
German Expressionist Cinema
(of 1920s Weimar Germany)

Features of Expressionism
Archways (portals and
doorways)
Shadows (often bars)
Mirrors
Windows
Sharp angles and lines
dividing the shot

Challenge: How could you
link these symbols to the idea
of the doppelgnger?