Audience Expectations



 

 

To research in better detail what people expect from thriller films we went around and asked people:

"What do you expect to see in a thriller film?"

This gives us a better idea of what things to include in our opening sequence so our target audience (15-24 year olds) would be able to classify our film as a thriller. Because of our target audience age, we decided to ask some people at the college as they're the people who are most likely to see the film. We're making it for them, so it probably wouldn't be a good idea to follow the advice of an audience aged 60+

Some of our footage was lost, but from the answers we got we took most things into consideration. The general idea is that people expected a gruesome death from a thriller, with lots of tension.

"Thrillers aren't meant to be scary, they're meant to keep you on edge."

Obviously some things we can't do, although it would be great to create a thriller film on the gritty streets of London with rival gangs and violence, it's slightly out of budget for an average group of A Level Media students. We can't include nudity either as this would change our film from a 15 to an 18, meaning we would miss out a large chunk of our target audience.