Question 4

Thrillers

Statistics show that the most popular age bracket for thrillers is 16-24 which would be appropriate as they usually involve complicated plots which may not be understandable or appealing to a younger audience as they'll find it harder to work out what is going on and issues being addressed in the film they may not have had much experience in so it'll seem alien to them. This is also why I think that the age rating for majority of thrillers is 15 or above. The thriller genre has many sub-genres and this can dictate their target audience for example 'Black Swan' would attract more women because its dance aspect but the Bourne. movies will be more appealing to men as most action thrillers are.

Psychological Thriller

This is our chosen thriller sub genre and the reason we chose it was because we found that

the thrillers we enjoyed the most, as a group, were psychological thrillers. I suspect the audience for psychological thrillers will be an older audience as they force you to conceptualise, to deduce, to get confused, all the while taking you to a place not only frightening, but close to real life and as said before younger audience will find it harder to grasp than older audiences. Although, our target audience is younger the usual psychological thriller age profile.

Box Plot

Our Target Audience was ages 16-25 and we chose these age group as we thought our plot would be more relatable. In our thriller we explore the negative side to social networking as the characters in our thriller met on a social networking site, and the main character uses social networking sites to lure girls in, to kill them. Also, research showed the age profile using social networking sites is our target audience group more, specifically from ages 15-30. Below and on the right, are graphs about the age profile of social network use and also the average time spent. It shows that our target audience us it the most and spend the most time on it.