Evaluation 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?
Thriller films appeal to both female and male genders of a variety of different social classes. There are however a variety of sub genres within the thriller genre and so certain sub genres may appeal to one gender or social class more than another depending on how relate-able the characters and themes throughout the film are to them. As we have only created an opening sequence and not a whole film this has the potential to appeal to any gender and any social class.
In terms of age, thriller films appeal a wide range of ages and so it is difficult to specify which ages would like them most. However, they are mainly aimed at 15-40 year olds. I felt as our characters would all be young adults that an age group of 18-25 would be most appropriate for our target audience age. They would be able to identify more with the characters and this seems correct. However, after doing further research into this I found that psychological thrillers, which is the genre that I feel fits our group, appeal to mainly over 25 year olds because they're intellectually demanding.
We also have to take into account that most psychological thrillers are given the label 18+ because of the content of some of the topics which can be rather disturbing and have long lasting psychological effects if a younger person were to watch it. I would therefore say our thriller would be aimed at people aged 18-30. Other people aged 16 and 17 could also watch this but only if they took an interest in horror/thriller films and so knew what they were getting themselves into.
Both genders would enjoy our thriller however women may enjoy it more as women typical enjoy psychological thrillers more because they can try to work out what is happening and predict a possible ending.

Links I used:
http://www.slideshare.net/jphibbert/thriller-film-research
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