Research on audience

Thriller is such a wide and varied Genre, therefore when we consider what audience our film will be tailored towards we have to be very careful. The amount of sub-genres and the different type of audience they attract means we have to be very considerate of the type of film that we are making. An example of this is that more women will be attracted to a romantic comedy or more of a male audience for an action film.

Our film could be described as a hybrid of two thriller sub-genres, the hybrid would be between psychological thriller and crime thriller. The decision allows us to target a specific audience. The audience that our film is likely to attract would be both male and female, the specific age range that the film will target will be between 16-25. It is most likely to attract this specific audience due to the characters in the film being teenagers, making the film more likely to appeal to the teenage generation. Also an audience of this specific age should be gripped by the excitement and suspense the film presents.

The Thriller genre tends to be aimed from the age 12+. The genre however isn't just aimed towards children primarily, a lot of films classified in the thriller genre tend to have a much older audience due to the nature of the films and are therefore rated 16+ and to a lesser extent 18+.

Within the British Board of film consideration guidelines it mentions that adults should be able to view what they want as long as it remains within the law and that the classification of a film is based on the involvement of criminal behaviour, human sexual activity, illegal drugs, violent behavior or horrific behavior and incidents and how they are portrayed.