Research - Film Audiences

Film audiences are various types of groups targeted for a particular film. There are many different types of audiences from age group, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and many more.

Thriller Film Audiences:

Overall the target audience for thrillers is usually males who range from young adults to middle aged. Thriller film audiences vary depending on what sub-genre it is.  However not all thrillers are aimed at males. For instance, romantic thrillers are usually aimed at females, comedy thrillers are usually aimed at teens and crime/legal thrillers are usually aimed at an older, mature male audience.

Here are some examples of thrillers with different types of target audiences:

These two films are romantic thrillers. the target audience would be females. however, 'The Tourist' may have a slightly older female audience due to the actual content.

This film is a legal thriller. This film would be aimed at a mature audience
and mainly males. You can already see that it will be aimed at males due
to there being more male actors on the poster than there are female.

'Johnny English' is a comedy thriller. The target audience would be
mainly teenage males. You can get a sense of this by what the film rating is; PG,
the explosive background and the fact he is holding a gun