Q4

Before we began to create our thriller opening titles we had to think of an idea for it, to do this we had to get our target audience which is teenagers aged 15+ up in till 30 years old and we had to work out the kinds of things that they want to see in thrillers and what appeals to them, we had to work out what subgenres they most like whilst watching thriller films. We found out who our target audience were by questionnaire and by a vox pop, we asked people of different ages and of different occupation so that we had a wide range of different answers, we asked people from the age range of our production on wards so that we could get a more specific audience and we had to make sure that we were targeting it at the right age groups by making sure we had some of the things that they asked for in it. To find out our main target audience we sent out a questionnaire to our friends and families, aged between 15-40, we wanted to know what kind of films they watch and what conventions they like to see in a film. I identified that my target audience for my thriller opening titles is people aged 15+ mainly males. To decide what our typical audience members like to see we did a Vox Pop, this is an interview to where we asked a few different people a few questions about thrillers and what they like to see in them. The questions that we asked them were “what is your favourite type of thriller?” “Why do you like thrillers?” and “what is your favourite thriller film?” we chose to ask these three questions as that then gave us an insight into what our audience like and enjoy watching,  from this research I found out that my audience like action and crime thrillers more than any other genre of thriller. That meant that I knew my genre of film but I still had to decide on what I would include in the opening titles. I found out that my audience like thrillers because of the excitement, suspense, mystery and because it gets them on the edge of their seat. This tells me that when I make a thriller opening I need to make it intense and exciting and I need to add some mystery to it. I learnt that it is mostly men that enjoy the action thrillers however some women do also enjoy watching them. The age we chose was 15+ we felt that would be appropriate for our thriller opening as it has action in it and the use of guns and violence would not be appropriate or suitable for younger children, also having a wide audience helps us as it has conventions of most common action thrillers so it doesn’t have a small refined audience, it has a larger mass audience.  

 The magazine ‘Empire’ is a men’s magazine that has different features that can appeal to most men aged 15-40 which is inside of our target audience. It is a magazine that contains brand new stories on the latest films, TV and video games. The average reader of empire is someone who likes to keep up to date with the latest news and enjoys reading and finding more out about their favourite films, games etc. Empire does different editions of their magazine and this is so that they attract a mass audience instead of a niche audience, this will increase their sales and make the business work better. This is an edition with inception as the front cover, this appeals to the thriller audience as they can be interested in the front cover and learn about thriller films that interest them and they will then read the rest of the magazine.

The average person that would watch our thriller opening titles would be very interested in movies and gaming, they would have all the latest technology and they would want to makes sure they bought the latest games and went and watched all the latest films as soon as they could. They would mostly be into one genre of media, they would enjoy action and that is why our thriller would appeal to them as it is a thriller action.  The BBFC age rating that our thriller would have is 15+ BBFC age rating, we felt this would be appropriate as it has guns and violence in it so younger teenagers and children would not understand the violence and it would not be appropriate for them to see that level of violence. The plot also contains mystery and only older teenagers and adults would understand the plot and the language used in it. This largely influenced our choice of target audience as the themes and plot would not suit younger people. As our age rating was 15+ we couldn’t have had our target audience as younger than that so we thought that 15+ would be an effective age for the audience as we knew that this kind of film would appeal to a large audience so we left the target audience age very open to accommodate for all people that would want to watch it. 

Our typical audience member would look like this, they would be a casual gamer and enjoy lots of films, they would be our target audience as they would watch more thriller films than adults, most teenagers enjoy fiction and watching a fiction film can be an escape from reality for them. Teenagers enjoy the thriller action genre as lots of them play video games like call of duty which is a violent war game, this then makes them want to watch more violent films which is why we included guns into our thriller as that attracts young adults to watch the film. As for the socio-economic class and ethnicity it is not really targeted at anyone in particular, it doesn’t contain any racial themes that could offend people. The socio economic class that we have chosen is C1-E. As these are the most common groups within our age range and our target audience. However it doesn’t mean that is the only audience that will watch and enjoy it, that is just the most common audience.