Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Understanding Thriller Audiences

Within the genre thriller are many sub genres which appeal to different groups of audiences for example:
  • Action Thriller - These films are packed with intense action scenes. They usually involve a lot of violence such as explosions, guns, and car chases (etc) where the protagonist is fighting the antagonist. The main target audience for this sub genre are young teenagers stereotypically male teenagers as they tend to be more interested in the action in this sub genre.

  • Crime Thriller - This sub genre of thriller consists of elements of both crime and thriller films usually focusing on the perspective of criminals rather than the investigator/policemen. It attracts young male audiences as they are very similar to action thriller films.

  • Political Thriller - Political thriller appeals to older men as the plot usually contains more mature themes relating to politics

  • Psychological Thriller - This type of thriller normally includes the main character experiencing emotional instability therefore has a hint of horror from the use of exaggerated disturbing images to express this. It appeals to older female audiences (25+) more than male audiences as it is less physical compared to other sub genres of thriller (action thriller). 

  • Romantic Thriller - This sub genre targets younger girls/women more than men due to the stereotypes of their romantic nature. 
In class, we explored audience types using the website YOUGOV profiler to see the patterns of types of audiences for specific sub genres. We found out that:

People who tend to like Argo are:
The majority of people who like The Last King Of Scotland are:

People who enjoyed the movie Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy are: 



Our Conclusions:




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