Research Into Audience Figures

Billy Parker.

For our genre of crime/investigation, it is difficult because the genre is implemented into a very high number of other genres and films. for example, some of the most famous films which are about detectives and solving crime are 'seven' and 'catch me if you can'. Both of these films would not however be classed as a crime film, because 'se7en' is much more of a psychological thriller, and 'catch me if you can' is a biopic of the man Frank Abagnale. Seven has a lifetime gross of $327 million as of 26/2/16, and so we can see that the film is extremely successful. I believe that this is relevant to our film due to the fact that our film is a crime thriller, and so this is similar to the type of film that seven is.

 

Another example of a crime thriller film is 'The Dark Knight'. This film is of course a superhero film, but the film is definitely a crime thriller due to the aspects such as the mob, the police and the psychopathic Joker character all are key integral parts to the film. The film made $158 000 000 on it's opening weekend, which could indicate to our group how the big name of Batman may be the cause of the large amount of money which is generated by the name, and this is backed up by how the opening weekend for Seven was just under 14 000 000 , a considerable difference between the two. As a mainstream company we want our film to do well on the opening weekend otherwise our film would be seen as a flop. We will have to bear all of this information in mind. In regards to film openings, we will now have to make an extremely good one in order to entice audiences around the world to come and view our film so we can generate the greatest possible buzz for our opening.

 

We will be taking the main inspiration from this information as the confirmation that we need to be distributed by a mainstream company. these films have all made a lot of money and are all critically acclaimed for their openings. I know now that we should use the ideas in dark knight of building up a character by introducing them and keeping a face reveal for a short period of time to establish the characters dominance as this is something that helped the film become so popular is the antagonist of the Joker. For us, we want to establish our detective character as having importance and dominance and so we will not directly do it how The Dark Knight does with the face reveal right at the end but we will be using it as inspiration.