TOPAZ: Target Audience and Age Certificate

Target Audience Research

We used Pearl and Dean to get an idea about the target audience for thriller films. The films researched in Pearl and Dean were Children of men, Panic room and Saw, a comparison of these films was used for an insight of their expected and received audiences.

This was the first movie that we compared the reason is that it is a popular horror film and it would be good to find some audience facts about this. To Pearl and Dean mostly ages from 15-24 watch this and most of them are male. This may be because the film is targeted at them,possibly due to the amount of gore and male actors used.

This was the second film we compared this is a thriller the reason this was researched was due to it having good thriller traits which may be used in the opening for our thriller. From the table, noticeably 78% of males watched this film. The highest age range was ages 25-34. The type of viewers, were from a background of good qualifications and also in middle management, possibly due to the complex content in this text. The issues raised in this film are of a serious tone and challenge the mind. The action could intrigue persons of a younger age, but the age of the male lead and adult topics could attract an older age.

This was the third movie we compared as it has some conventions used in our thriller. Mostly females watched Panic Room. 15-24 and 25-34 were the ages that this film attracted. A business occupation or and students could be the suggested audience's lifestyle. This could be explained from the age of the protagonist actor in the film and her situation. Females were possibly intrigued by this movie due to the 'Girl power' and use of a female lead. The use of the male actors and the dominance they had in this film could attract males to this text.