Audience Profile

Our main target audience is independent film watchers aged from 16-24. From our audience research it showed that both female and male of 16-20 year olds enjoy independent films instead of or as well mainstream films. We found they enjoyed independent films because of their sense of reality, unpredictableness, the unusual storylines and different actors who have a sense of mystery. We tried and have hopefully have incorporated these themes into our thriller opening. Others that enjoy independent films are those who respond to individuality and some who are trying to make the word a better place - reformers. Our audience will get pleasure from our film because of it's independcy, as they like to see themselves as independent. We intended our film target audience to identify with are main character because of the similar but a wider ahe range would also be able to identify with our sub-genre as older people may watch detective series on TV so able to relate with our film in that way. Our film is an independent film and Essex Boys was a strong influence which is also an independent film. Another film which also gave ideas and techniques was ‘Memento’ it is a psychological thriller which also includes flashbacks as does our thriller. Another independent film that our target will enjoy and can relate to is Dead Man's Shoes which has a similar storyline and aspects of our thriller. our thriller is British Gangster as it contains crimes, criminals, weapons and gangs. Our thriller opening also includes aspects of psychological thriller films because as it incorporates ideas of mystery and suspense. I think our sub-genre will appeal to our target audience because it focuses on youths and their lives today. We used mainly just two different locations one was a garage this created a claustrophobic place which is a well used thriller technique, the dark lighting also help builds suspension. Our second location of filming used city locations, for example, Castle Gardens. Using city areas allows youths to relate because they will recognise the places as where teenagers go. Some of the locations, for example, under the bridge is known as a drug dealing place which represent a unwelcoming area of the city. We included the shot of the bridge in our poster as hopefully our target audience will be able to relate to it and it attracts their attention. Our thriller is hitting the mood of the moment with teenagers and early twenties are involved in drugs and crime. The social class used in our thriller is about in the c2 class which means the characters may be skilled or unskilled but may not have jobs, which represent a gang of young criminals. I think some of the audience may a have similar social class but might not be able to relate to the situation that has occurred but identify with our main character (Archie) because of the age and hopefully the audience can put themselves into Archie’s situation to understand and feel the storyline. Our narrative was focused on the main character Archie this allowed the audience to identify with him and also follow the storyline easily. We included flashbacks into our thriller, which are of the murdering which is an important event in the narrative because it is telling the background story which shows we really thought and focused our narrative on the characters. In our poster we included two different quotes to help interest and grab our target audience attention. “London Independent Film Festival award winning” this was to attract the attention of the viewers who enjoy independent films. The second quote “Tense and gripping” help attract the attention of the people who like the genre and them.