Potential Audience

We decided on the genre crime thriller for our film. One of the most important things we needed to keep in mind when planning our film was our audience for they are the ones who are going to be watching our film and will be our biggest critics, so to find out who our potential audience is I decided to carry out a questionnaire on my friends and family- so that i have a range of ages- and find out what their favorite elements of a crime thriller was.

This is the questionnaire that i gave to friends and family to fill out:



From the answers that people gave a crime thrillers typical audience is:

-People of all ages
-Male and female
-Favorite crime thriller plots were Murder and Kidnapping.

However, this doesn't really tell me WHO the thriller audience is, it just tells me what their favourite plot is. To find out the age range, Ive decided to research the audience of similar films.

One of these films will be Taken. From the website Rotten tomatoes many of the comments are from males. Also with the film being also action as well as thriller, this is likely to attract a male audience more than a female.
Another films audience I have decided to research is the sixth sense, from the website rotten tomatoes, it is again males. This seems to be a consistent trend of males commenting on films, so maybe this isn't as reliable as I thought.
Dependent on the genre, then the audience changes. So, for an action thriller, the audience are more likely to be male, 16+ whereas a psychological thriller is more likely to be female, 16+. However it is very hard to determine the audience because it's never going to be just one group of people going to see the film.

It's important for us to know what our audience is, so that when the film is made, they are inclined to watch the film as it's something they will enjoy.