Thursday 18th December-Target audience

This was our last lesson before the Christmas Holiday's. And our final topic was Thriller films and audiences

On one of our handouts it stated that 'No thriller film is made in isolation. the audience should b in integral part of the decision making process at all stages. The Primary objective of you Thriller film is to appeal to an audience. If a film has no audience it will not make any money'
Audiences are extremely important to the movie business. And in any industry the market forces apply and the product must make a profit.

In this lesson we learned a lot of useful things about cinema audiences for example :-

• we found that males tend to watch mostly action, thrillers and adventures
• we found that women to watch mostly musicals, romantic comedy's, children films and period films

We made a lot of notes about audiences and how we must consider certain things when making our thrillers.

• we can define target audience in terms of age,race , gender and social class.
• Also the choice of our actors may have an influence on the audience who come to see the film.
• movie certification of a movie may define the audience, E.g A 18 certificate may suggest a certain level of sexual scenes.