Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for a thriller is dependent on the genre of the thriller itself. Thrillers such as Sixth Sense (one of the openings we analysed) is a borderline horror film and will be targerted at a different demographic to something like Memento, which is a crime thriller and aimed at more of a mature audience. However, i think the general demographic targeted for thriller films is of young adults, between the ages of 15-25.

However, for the thriller we made, it fell more in the sub-genre of a psychological thriller, meaning that it it uses a narrative that makes the character exposed to a danger on a mental level rather than a physical one. This is apparent in our thriller as the plot follows the main character who is trying to uncover the identity of her stalker, and whether the stalker is even real or not. Because of this, it means that the film makes the audience ask a lot of questions, more so in a typical thriller as more of the story is hiden and slowly revealed. This kind of film requires a lot of concentration on the behalf of the audience and will require them to be slightly older, therefore our thriller is probably aimed at people between the age group of 18-25.

Also, i believe that our thriller is aimed primarily at women, as the main character is a women and therefore more relatable to a female audience, however, there are many aspects of the film that would appeal to men too. Also, the audience would have to be people that were into the thriller genre, as it requires a lot of thinking and question asking, and not just someone casually watching the film.

However, because our peice of work is only showing the opening of a thriller, not all of this is made apparent straight away. However, we do make it clear that the main character (who is primarily the focus of the camera) is the main character, and that it contains a psychological element with the shots of the stalker, although his identity is obscured. The audience immediatly ask questions on who the stalker is, why she is being stalked and, due to the fact that she is seen waking up at the end, is the stalker even real?

A shot of the stalker - costume is used so that the stalker is wearing a hood, making him unrecognisable to the audience, and they ask questions about who he is.

A shot of the alarm clock going off and the main character waking up - this makes the audience question whether it was all just a dream, or if it was something more. This not only makes the audience ask questions but hooks them in and entices them to watch the rest of the film.