Introduction

Thriller and Suspense Films are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features.
If the genre is to be defined strictly, a genuine thriller is a film that rentlessly pursues a single-minded goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the main character(s) is placed in a menacing situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy.
Thrillers are often hybrids - there are suspense-thrillers, action- or adventure- thrillers, sci-fi thrillers (such as Alien (1979)), crime-caper thrillers (such as The French Connection (1971)), western-thrillers (such as High Noon (1952)), film-noir thrillers (such as Double Indemnity (1944)), even romantic comedy-thrillers (such as Safety Last (1923)).
Another closely-related genre is the horror film genre (e.g., Halloween (1978)), also designed to elicit tension and suspense, taking the viewer through agony and fear. Suspense-thrillers come in all shapes and forms: there are murder mysteries, private eye tales, chase thrillers, women-in-danger films, courtroom and legal thrillers, erotic thrillers, surreal cult-film soap operas, and atmospheric, plot-twisting psychodramas. Thrillers keep the emphasis away from the gangster, crime, or the detective in the crime-related plot, focusing more on the suspense and danger that is generated.
Characters in thrillers include convicts, criminals, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims (often on the run), prison inmates, menaced women, characters with dark pasts, psychotic individuals, terrorists, cops and escaped cons, fugitives, private eyes, drifters, duplicitious individuals, people involved in twisted relationships, world-weary men and women, psycho-fiends, and more. The themes of thrillers frequently include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder.

Target Audience

As my film is a horror/thriller it would be appropriate for me to aim my trailer at a audience which are interested/enjoy/drawn in by thriller or horror films. I want my trailer to appeal to ages above 15/16 as i think that this age range is best matched for my genre. My film being based on a teenage girl who is at a school/college will be what audience members aged from 15-21 will be able to relate with as most people this age will still be in education. The older members of my target audience 25-40 will be able to relate to the parent figures in the film making it engaging for them.

Synopsis Of Film

My film is based on the horror of someone watching/stalking you, it has a main character which is a serial killer, who tracks down targets due to them being selfish and unkind to others, the killer will then watch them until the time is right to catch them and take them to a dark gloomy hut in the middle of a forest. This is where the main part of the film would be filmed, the killer doesn't just kill his targets he tortures them on a live feed which he posts onto the internet for others to watch. The killer who's actual face is never seen is also a classy business man who has a very nice life with a big house and a family, so why does he want to kill people? This is down to a difficult childhood where he was a very unprivileged and beaten by his father even though he was a wealthy man, his dad would cheat on his mother in front of him because he had money she never found out. Then one day he came home to find his mother hung by her neck and his dad paying off a policeman, this is when his first victim was found. Being so young the authorities couldn't find any evidence that the young boy had killed his father and believed that it was a burglar since that day he was never going to be normal. The film then turns into a hopeful when a police woman decides to dedicate her work to finding out the killer until the situation take a bad turn for her.