Evaluation of Target Audience

Target Audience

• Our film is a psychological thriller and this genre tends to be mainly geared towards 15 to 30 year old's, the reason for this is because psychological thrillers tend to have mature themes and also have quite complicated plots involving peoples minds which may be hard for younger viewers to understand. the reason ours will appeal to this age range is because they may like the complicated plot lines and the complexity's that come about from normally a damaged persons mind and may like the thrill they get from seeing this.
• Psychological thrillers and generally aimed at both male and female however they are very slightly leaned towards women this is because research shows women enjoy films based on the mind more interesting then because these types of films have implied violence or mental manipulation more often being done upon women by men which intrigues women more. However this is not strong enough for us to gear it solely at women so we aimed it at both but expect slightly more women to watch it.
• However psychological thrillers can sometimes have explicit scenes or implied themes that could be very offensive, examples of this are "Silence of the Lambs" this means films in this genre could be rated (18) however our film while does have explicit scenes we do not think they are bad enough to put on a (18) rating and instead we placed a (15) which opens our film to more viewers.
• People who would watch our film would generally of watched similar films such as "Se7en" which is a crime psychological thriller and would appeal more towards men because of violent and gun scenes, or "The Butterfly Effect" which would appeal more towards sci-fi lovers.
• Psychological thrillers tend to have quite complicated story lines and be based on intellectual themes involving peoples minds this means that psychological thrillers may be watched by more intelligent people because they may like the challenge of trying to understand the film.