Audience Research

In terms of gender for the audience it seems that for Thriller genre films, male audiences are much greater than females, thus showing who would show more interest in my film opening. An example of statistics in the yearbook shows that 76% of the audience for the film Green Zone was male, and also the film being an action, drama, war, thriller, which is similar to what genre my film opening would be however it will be more towards crime thriller.

In age preference it seems that the average audience for these genre of films are people aged 15 - 24, e.g the film inception (within the thriller genre) had a 37% of the total audience for the age group. Which links to my film as it will be Thriller as as shown I think the majority of the audience will be the same (ages 15-24).

Also I have researched audiences expectations of what is in a Thriller film, one of the people I interviewed stated that he expects a Thriller film has a 'bad guy' and that there should be a 'weird twist' in it. He also described the genre with words such as 'creep', 'scary music' and 'action'.