PLANNING: OUR COMP LIST

 KEZIA WILLIAMS: She believes that it is really important to understand who your audience is and what motivates them and what’s going to interest them and drive them to go to the cinema. So you start, often, by examining similar films that have been released in the past– comparable films is a way in which we refer to them in the industry– and create a set that we can then look back at data so we can look at lots of different data and do research, really, on those comparable films to identify who the audience was on those films. So it might be that we look at demographic data and think about, did it skew more male or more female? What’s the age group that it appeals to?Skip to 0 minutes and 46 seconds Does it have multiple different audiences that that can appeal to? And there’s lots and lots of cinema-going trends that you can dig into from that comparable set. We’ll also look at box office data to understand regionality, to look at the cinema-going skew– so did more people go to a certain cinema chain to see these comparable films? Right down to which cinemas performed. So it might be that there’s a cinema in London that had a fantastic box office share, and that’s an important aspect for us to consider. And then once you really understand who the audience on those comparable films were, you can start to talk about the differences and similarities between those films and the film that you’re working on.

Today we carried out similar research

 List of three comparable films, find three films that are going to be in competition with our film.

 

YOU GET ME: Written by Christopher Crowe, directed by James Foley

This movie fills the audience with both interest and tension due to the main character, Holly, played by Bella Thorne, who acts as a crazy obsessed teenager, she is in love and desperate for Tyler (the other main character) and his attention. Tyler is played by John Smith.

The plot of Holly's role as a psychotic girl is initially unknown by the audience, however her true identity is soon exposed as the film continues. This film is chosen as one of our competitions due to it's gripping and intriguing storyline which takes a turn and surprises it's viewers, as well as the involvement the film has on it's audience, engaging them with the tension and stress of the plot. The roles are played by well known actors and actresses, especially Bella Thorne who stars in at least 36 movies and multiple tv shows. This film links to our personal film idea due to the thrill and suspense involved, as well as the psychotic main character, who has inspired us. 

MISERY: After a major car incidence, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Sheldon is killing off her favorite character from his novels. As Sheldon devises plans for escape, Annie grows increasingly controlling, even violent, as she forces the author to shape his writing to suit her twisted fantasies.Rob Reiner's Misery is largely hailed as one of the all-time best Stephen King horror film adaptations. Also starring James Caan, Richard Farnsworth, Lauren Bacall, and Frances Sternhagen, Kathy Bates. Misery tells the story of famed romance novelist Paul Sheldon (Caan), who suffers a car accident in the snowy woods of Colorado.

FEAR: It revolves around a wealthy family whose seemingly perfect life is threatened when their teenage daughter begins dating an attractive and mysterious young man. The film was largely derided by critics upon its release, but became a major hit in the spring of 1996, engaging $20 million at the U.S. box office. This is our competition because it contains some very large names within the acting world; Reece Witherspoon and Mike Wahlberg. This is relevant to my film because both contain an obsessive male character. That goes to many lengths to get close and stalk the other leading female character.