Evaluation question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Generally, thriller films tend to have an older audience, like over the age of 15 or so. This is because most thrillers are based on making people think in order to get into the film, which is why an older audience best suit thrillers, as they generally tend to be more interested in the complexity. Age isn't the only factor within thriller audiences, there is also gender too. What's good about thriller films is that because they are so alternative, both genders seem to have as much interest as each other.

What tends to happen is that the different sub genres appeal to different age groups, but most thrillers appeal to 15 or over. This isn't just because of the complexity, but also because most thrillers commonly contain violence, and this violence isn't suitable for young ages and quite pyscological topics. An example of sub genre appealing to an audience would be a crime thriller. A crime thriller would typically appeal to a male audience as it contains a lot of action and violence. This isn't always the case, but we generally associate these things with a male audience due to the stereotype.In contrast to this, something like The Drama Thriller might appeal to women more than men as they contain more mature topics, but this all is due to the stereotype, but is also proved to be true.

For our thriller film, I think a younger audience, of about 16-30 best suited it as the drug related theme appeals to a younger age. But we didn't want it too young. e.g. 15 and under as it would be too explicit and we would be sending out the wrong message. I think over 16 is the right age as the theme of drugs should be seen as a mature topic in which the audience of our thriller could maybe relate to at a young age, but we have put the maximum age range as roughly around 30 as we don't think that people over this age would take as much interest into it.


This is a Facebook profile which I have created for a potential audience viewer of a our film. As you can see he studied at a good college and is of a young age, so he is an ideal person to watch our thriller film.