Target Audience

After much consideration, we have decided that our target audience would be between 16-25. This is because some scenes would seem quite scary or haunting to an audience any younger than the age of 16. Also, the fact that the cast would mainly consist of young people/teenagers, any older than the age of 25 and it could possibly lose the relativity of the thriller. We want to create something that people can relate to some of the characters, so this age group as our target audience would be quite ideal if we could reach out to them.

Research into target audience.

To get an idea of what people expected from thrillers within the target audience, we created a questionnaire. From this we want to get to know the views of our audience so that we do not fail to satisfy.



1. Gender

2. Age

3. Most enjoyable part of watching a thriller?
Gore, Suspense, Thrill or the Unknown (Twists).

4. What type of thriller are you more likely to see?
Action, Crime, Horror or Medical

5. Does a thriller have to have big stars to have an effective viewing?
Yes, No

6. Does a thriller have to have a complicated, inter-woven plot for it to be successful?
Yes, No



After collaborating our results together from this questionnaire, we found that the sub-genre horror is more popular with the questioned people. Also, from these chosen participants, the unexpected twists of a thriller were a more highly appreciated factor than gore, thrill and suspense (although suspense did come a close second).
A thriller would be more effective not to have well-known stars performing in it, as unknown actors make the action seem so much more real as they will not be associated with any other film which would have been released.
One last point which we found was that 75% agreed that a plot does have to have a complicated, inter-woven plot for it to be successful. The audience can submerge themselves into the storyline so much more when there are plots to be figured out.