Essay Question 2: Who would be the audience for your specific thriller?

Target Audience Profile

 

Age Group: 18-25 year olds

Gender: Bother male and female

Interests: Out going, spending time with friends and still in some sort of education or working

Ethnicity: All types of ethnicities

 

I would like to create something like this
for the movie poster as it fits in with my
colour scheme and fits in with the sub
genre

The above picture includes the ideal target audience, males and females who are over 18 and around or below 25, our movie may have a age restriction which it is a good idea to keep the minimum target age audience 18. From some of the research we did we found that this was the target age audience which most horror thriller had for their movies, keeping this in mind we would assume they watch a lot of horror movies, which would make their expectations high for our movie. Also from our audience research we found that this idea was unique because it was something different and couldn't be compared to another movie on the spot, so for a few viewers they would expect something good because its so unique. The fact that its different compared to typical horror thriller movies will help attract the target audience.
For the poster idea, I would definitely use the colour red and black as the colour scheme, mainly because red is associated with blood and bloody Mary, so it would make sense to use these colours. Black is the colour of power and used in mass can be shown as unfriendly and intimidating, Bloody Mary is a intimidating character as she is partially invisible to the audience, the only visible thing about her are her actions. Red signifies strength and draw attention to itself, a bit like the danger in this movie.
The movies that would interest my target audience would be movies involved with thrill, which has a element of horror. Movies they may have watched in the last year would be Insidious 2, The Conjuring and Mama. They are movies which can be realated to the movie that we are making, they have a supernatural element to it, and hopefully ours would be different compared to the typical horror movies. I would expect most of the target audience to have a good understanding of what a good horror movie is and would have hopefully watched a varied amount of thrillers, to know what thrillers are and so our movie lives up to there expectation.
The themes that our movie will cover will conist of mystery, suspense, blood, supernatural, not knowing the next step. To create mystery and suspense I would use the tempo and volume of the music as it will help create the atmosphere, also close ups of characters will show there reaction and emotion which help set the scene and keep the audience in the dark about whats going to happen next.  

Paranormal activities is a film that is closely compared to our film, only because also in there movie there villian is also invisible and causes harm to a innocent family, in our case its a group of friends. Paranormal Activities is a highly looked movie and there have meen many movies made, they also use the black and red colour scheme and it looks horror style and suits the sub genre.