GENRE: Mystery-
For my second choice in genre I chose mystery. I found a certain appeal to the genre as it focuses on solving a crime or a puzzle that stimulates the brain, helping an audience feel active and immersed within the film. Mystery films are often designed as puzzles allowing the audience to act as a “detective” alongside the main character. Typically consisting of a suspenseful, dark, atmosphere.
TARGET AUDIENCE-
-The genre of mystery typically has a target audience that ranges from 15 to 35 years old. Many murder mysteries have a strong appeal to women aged 25-45. Normally this target audience are really crime based fans. Most audiences are pulled by the appeal of psychological challenges, truly making the mind work and solve puzzles, drawing suspense towards the film. A diverse and mostly a mixed gender audience, particularly those people who enjoy intellectual stimulation, become attached to mystery films.
"Joker", 2013 had the biggest target audience for a mystery film from 18-40 years old with 68%
mixed genders.
CONVENTIONS WITH CONTENT-
- Mystery films often involve a structured approach to narrative, visual style, and marketing which is designed to engage the audience's interest as well as intellect to build suspense and a puzzling atmosphere. Many key elements include a central crime scene that often involves murder, along with a closed circle of suspects and a protagonist who solves the puzzle through a thorough investigation.
-Visual techniques used within this genre of filming include low-key lighting and high contrast which help create an edgy mood and hides information/clues. Often these films are set in modern cities or isolated gloomy locations. Common themes are explore in the duration of these films, as in searching for the truth, restoration of order, or corruption.
-Many marketing and promotional conventions are explored and used to present the film to the audience. Often they include "strategic information scarcity," cutting off much valuable information so the audience will be clipped with the least information possible and want to explore the mystery of the film. In other words: Teasing the premise while withholding key twists to provoke curiosity. Poster are also used with dark color palettes that normally feature the main character. Some iconic props like a magnifying glass, key, or any kind of weapon are featured in the posters to emphasize the mood as well as creating a sense of "hidden" information.
-Clues are necessary to make mysteries solvable, needing to keep the audience off balance. Many key terms are used within this genre. Red herring means a false clue is meant to mislead, this key term is used to be more innovative with the film, layering the psychological, technological, and even supernatural twists that come within the structure of mystery films. Many mystery films come across other genres and combine together to become a better capture, such as sci-fi, horror, and animation, come to explode in popularity when combined.
NARRATVE-
-Mystery films often include features where a group is isolated, and the hero will mostly deduce the killer. The plot heavily relies on codes (enigma). Which are unanswered questions, clues, or even the key terms like red herring and flashbacks that help build tension. Often, the protagonist is a flawed detective or a private investigator in which they track down the suspect. While the protagonist is considered clumsy the suspect frequently has credible motives and opportunities, showing the intellectual side of thee suspect towards the audience.
FILMS-
-Vertigo made in 1958, uses a psychological mystery of obsession as well as manipulation within the film itself. Which also reveals a central plot as a murder is framed with supernatural possession. It adds a key of a "grand deception" where the audience is mislead with a cold blooded murder plot alongside it to re-ensure it mysterious sense within the film.
-Memento made in 2000, drives it mystery through a reverse chronological narrative, which forces the audience to experience the same confusion in which the main character is is also experiencing. The revelation in which the protagonist solved the case, is intentionally made to manipulate the audience as well as himself through memories and notes used to sustain a quest.
Resources-
Combination with Mystery genres
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