Target Audience

Target Audience

For our opening 2 minutes of a thriller we as a group need to have a target audience so we can make the thriller for that specific audience.

We have chosen teenagers from the age of 11 to 16 year olds for our target audience. The reason for this chose is that our entire group is 16 years old and so we can specify the opening for what we want to see in terms of the action, characters and colours so we can achieve good levels of interest for our thriller.

Our classification for our thriller film would be a 12 age rating. This is because we would be able to attract more teens to watch our movie as it will have a lower age restriction. With our thriller being a 12 age restriction we include things such as:

·        Some strong language but it must be infrequent

·        Moderate violence but not too detailed as there should be no emphases on the blood or gory.

The way that we will achieve this age restriction is to have low levels of violence and do not show any blood or gore if somebody dies. Also we could have some to little amounts of swearwords and this could include the less offensive like (Pr*ck or Tw*t) to also keep the age rating low.

In our group we did research to find out:

·        What type of thriller do you prefer?

·        What do you expect from the opening first two minutes of a thriller?

·        How many characters would you want in the opening?

·        What time period would you want the thriller to be set in?

·        Do you want there to be a narrative theme?

With this information we could find out what people wanted from a thriller and then cater it to our target audience which is teens. We will do this by getting all this information from the survey questions and then doing the type of thriller which the audience wants.

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