Research Into Chosen Genre

My chosen genre is a psychological thriller. I chose this genre because I felt it was an under used genre and found figures for other movies in this genre made greate profits such as Black Swan (2010) that made £2,762,429 (UK) (21 January 2011) on its opening weekend. I also chose this genre because i had many good ideas involving a boy with a psychological disease which I knew would appeal to a mass audience.

Things that I must consider for my genre are the generic conventions used. For a psychological thriller, it uses conventions of mystery and suspense to keep the audience wondering what is going on, this is good because it attracts both a passive and active audience because an active audience want to make there own assumptions while a passive want to enjoy the suspense.

It also usually follows the life of one character but for my piece I want to break this convention by following the life of 3 main characters I believe this is a good idea because it can attract a wider audience as they may feel connected to any one of the 3 main characters.