Question 4

Question 4

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

Due to the content of our psychological thriller I believe that the best target audience for our psychological crime thriller would be a male between the ages of 15 and 30 and would be categorised as part of a mainstream social group. I came to this decision as a result of the fact that psychological thrillers such as our are often slower as a result of more intellectually demanding content in the film, yet still contains the conventions of the overarching thriller genre in their tension caused by enigma and mystery and as a result may appeal to an older audience than other thriller sub genres. This is clearly demonstrated by the 1999 psychological thriller 'Se7en' in which the large majority of viewers were male and between the ages of 18 and 29. Therefore, due to the fact that many it is clear that the majority of viewers of the genre will be young adult males I believe that the age range of our film being 15 to 30 is appropriate as it not only matches with the audience of similar films but we aim to provide a more reserved film than 'Se7en' in terms of adult themes and as a result our overall target audience should be lower than that of 'Se7en'.

Therefore, our ideal audience profile would likely be a young adult male around the ages of 17 or 18 who enjoys mainstream media and would visit the cinema once every month to watch the latest thriller block busters, such as; 'Spectre' or 'Bridge of Spies'. They would also enjoy using social media in order to consume more content, likely consistently visiting popular sites such as; 'Facebook', 'Twitter', and 'YouTube' where they will browse pages concerning films and TV shows they enjoy, as well as watching review videos and trailers of upcoming and recently released films, which they plan on seeing in the cinema or may wait to be released on DVD due to their low amount of spendable money. They are also likely to have a Netflix account or other visit another similar media viewing website in order to spend their free time watching popular shows and films, in the thriller or comedy genre, with friends, family, or even on their own during relaxation periods.