EVALUATION: Question 4

The wider audience for thriller tends to include all ages – however not all age groups watch the same thriller as all thrillers vary according to its sub genre. Generally thriller films tend to interest young adults as the plots all have suspense, tense and mysterious feel to it. This engages the young audience as the life they live can also be very fast paced or slow paced, this helps them relate to the thriller and stay engaged into the film.

The audience more specific to our genre is those who are interested in thriller films that do not give too much away and require thinking to get a good grasp of what’s going on. For example many people put inception as one of the best movies ever made. This is because many people had to watch it several times to actually understand what is going on. They enjoyed the thinking process as they were watching the film. We aimed to achieve the same effect which is why we tailored our editing and filming process to suit the needs of this target audience. This target audience is patient, out of the box thinker and likes the psychological aspect of the thriller.

The most specific target audience we were targeting from the go was of the age range between 18-35 males. The reason I have targeted this age range and gender group is because as most thriller conventions include some sort of murder/action scenes, i thought that this would appeal to this specific target audience. Furthermore the young adult male age range i picked for our thriller generally also like the solving aspect of psychological thinking thrillers because it engages them into the film and they feel more interacted with the film. The 18-35 male age range also suit out target audience as the main character we have is of the same age/gender group which makes the character somewhat relate-able  This also helps to keep the target audience locked in.

The reason why ours is 18 and not 16 is because our film will have plenty of weapons and blood and somewhat strong language throughout, furthermore we think the thought process which will go into our film may come across as ‘boring’ for those below 18 as they may not be patient enough.

I have created a facebook page for the film itself. The ideal person to 'like' this page in terms of our target audience would be someone who:

- Age between 18-35
- Gender: Male
- Out of the box thinker
- Patient attitude
- Detective like mindset