The target audience for “Neurosis” will be teenagers aged 13-19. The reason we have aimed our film at this age group in particular is to highlight social impacts teenagers have on one another. One of the reason why we’ve chosen to base this story around teenagers rather than adults it to highlight how tragedies from a young age and bullying in school can lead to unexpected actions from the individual. In some ways, this film is a cinematic critique of how people treat one another. Even though this film is aimed at teenagers, adults will find that they can still relate to the story because they have been through adolescence and probably understand the hardships of growing up rather than current teenagers
Teenagers and adults are more likely to watch psychological thrillers/horrors because they understand more of life and want to be scared. Psychological thrillers have an element of suspense and tension that grips the audience. Directors and producers know for a fact that audiences love to be scared because audiences go back to see scary movies again and again. For example, the “Scream” trilogy introduced the fear of the unknown in audiences; audiences were scared of what they could not see, in Scream’s case the identity of the killer. The fear of the unknown also introduces a curiosity amongst the audience, they want to know the outcome, they want to know the motive and they want to know who the killer is. After “Scream” was released, “Scream 2” followed along with “Scream 3”. The fact that the producers were able to release these movies confirms the fact that audiences like to go and pay for things that scare them, without people paying for movies, producers cannot fund more movies. Young children do not usually watch psychological thrillers because they do not understand the flow of the film and the reason behind it, they do not have enough adult knowledge and wisdom to connect experiences together. Also, the film’s rating can stop certain age groups from viewing these movies for fear of severe psychological impact and parent’s may feel that their child is too young to understand the meaning of the story.
We are going to target teenagers by making the main cast teenagers. The story is also set in a school and includes common stereotypes associated with high school for example a geeky school newspaper, the “cool people” in the football team and the popular girl that everyone admires and lusts after.
The film rating of “Neurosis” is 15 as proposed by the British Board of Film Classification. The film contains abusive language, moderate violence, manslaughter and deliberate murder. The scenes are not explicit however some aspects of the murder are shown and the manslaughter is shown but in less detail. The BBFC have made clear that a film rated “15” cannot glorify weapons, discrimination and it must not dwell on pain and abuse. An example of a a 15 rated film I studied is "The Butterfly Effect".
Distribution:
Fox Searchlight Pictures is a film division of 20th Century Fox and specializes in independent films and British films. We think Fox Searchlight is the best company to distribute our film because it specializes in independent films and British films. Our film is independent because it did not have a high budget, it was not pitched to major distributing companies and it was filmed outside of a major film studio. An example of a psychological thriller released under Fox Searchlight is "One Hour Photo".
