Picture of Actor (Mike)

This is a picture of Mike. He will be playing the older psychopath, he will be dressed in a black coat with black gloves and hat.

Picture of Actor (Mia)

This is a picture of Mia she will be playing the dead girl. She will be playing the 16 year old girl and will be dressed in a flowing white maxi dress.

Hair Brushes Research

I have researched various types of antique hair brushes that would inspire the design of the hairbrush in the opening sequence. I think that the use of an antique hairbrush, creates a classic romantic tone to the scene and also connotes a sense of femininity, purity and beauty; this juxtaposes with the idea that the girl is dead and the dark nature of the opening sequence. 

These are various antique hairbrushes

Casting

Casting:

Girl: Mia McCallum - We choose Mia because we believe she has the right look for the thriller opening.

Our backup actress would be Edwarda Agunita 

Man: Mike Timson - I feel that the contrast between older and younger characters create an uncomfortable juxtaposition. 

Our backup actor would be Mike Niland

How I would Market my Film

To garner a profit from the film, I would issue a wide cinema release, across large chain cinema’s such as Odeon in the United Kingdom, Cineplex in Canada and Regal Cinemas in the USA. After a wide cinema release the film would go to pay per view for viewers to purchase or rent at home. In addition, I would have the main cast go on tour in many countries to premier the film. In the case of merchandising, I felt that in Halloween we should release make-up set and a costume replica of that worn in the film’s opening sequence.

Paramount’s SVP of Marketing has stated that the company target audience are males and females aged between 21 to 29, because they represent a vast age group in the population and as well have a more varied interest of films to watch than the generation before them.

Overall I feel that due to Paramount Pictures history in producing ground-breaking films and their status in the film industry, they would be most suitable in producing my thriller.

Paramount's Ethos/Budget and Speciality

Paramount is known for its big budget films, such as Titanic (1997) which had a budget of 200 million. Their films are also known to be some of the highest grossing ever, for example Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) which grossed over 1 billion.

 Due to being one of the film industry’s biggest companies, Paramount, has worked with a long list of high profile actors, such as Leonardo Di Caprio and Angelina Jolie. Hence, I feel that Paramount would be a good company to produce and distribute the film, because we would have the possibility to cast big actors; additionally the companies notoriety in the film industry would help in marketing the film and increase profits.

 Paramount also produces a wide variety of films, of different genre’s, therefore I feel that our thriller would fit very well with the companies ethos, as it would open them to a larger market of young people and as well add to the companies varied portfolio.

Paramount try to grasp a large demographic from their films, therefore they release films of various genre’s in order to appease the varied consumer interest.

Here is a link to Paramount Pictures website: http://www.paramount.com/

Films that they have produced and are releasing this year

Which Institution would Produce my Film

The film company that I would choose would be Paramount Pictures. I decided this from researching the films they have produced and the critical reception of the audience.

One film that was produced by Paramount and is similar in its conventions to my thriller opening sequence is the movie Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock . In the ending of the film it is revealed that Norman Bates mother is dead, he keeps her skeleton dressed up in his basement. This is very similar to our thriller where a dead girl is being dressed up by a ‘Psycho’ . When the film Psycho was released it was ground-breaking in its conventions and themes and I feel that Paramount would be the right company to take on a project like ours and deliver a shocking and re-vitalised film of the thriller genre.