Audience Research

I decided to look on IMDb (www.imdb.com) to find out some research about different thriller films and find out the audience that watch them to help me for when I create an opening sequence for a thriller film.

From looking on the website I could see that the audience from the rating showings was mainly males who are aged between 18-29.

Fight Club 

Target Audience: 18-29

Fight clubs audience shows that it's a film which has been watched more by males aged either under 18 or 18-29. 

Fight club is a film which shows suspense, fight club also shows a lot of fighting, blood and death which men enjoy viewing. Also the film is based around two male characters which men could relate to, this could be why the male viewing is higher too. The film shows a lot of low lighting during the film, this adds tensions and mystery for the audience, sterotypicaly this wouldn't be a film a woman would enjoy which is why I think the female viewing is lower than the males.

Shutter Island 

Target Audience: 18-29

The same as fight club shutter islands audience is mainly male. Again there is a high amount of audience that are 18-29 but there is also a high percentage of under 18's.

I think the reason why a lot of the audience is under 18 is because the film is a 15 film.

I think the reason why 18-29 year olds would enjoy this film is because it has suspense which grows throughout the film. The film also shows an enigma  code which 18-29 year olds would also enjoy as a lot of questions would be produced by them during the film which would mean they would have to think what was going to happen next.

 The Silence of the Lambs 

Target Audience: 18-29

I think the reason why The Silence of the Lambs has a high rating of 18-29 because it is a very dark and twisted thriller.

I don't think women would enjoy this film due to that and it might might make them feel uncomfortable to watch it.

Se7en

Target Audience: 18-29

Because Se7en is an inventive and suspence thriller this could be why 18-29 would enjoy to watch it.

Also because se7en shows an dark atmosphere, this could be another reason why the viewers are mainly male.  I think there is also a large amount of women viewers because of Brad Pitt starring in the film.

The target audience shows a trend of males aged between 18-29. Men enjoy the aspects of danger, crime and actions within thriller. When creating my own opening sequence for a thriller I will feature them characteristics to make sure it appeals to the target audience.