Audience

In terms of audience, most Thrillers would have as much of a mass target audience as possible, to increase their fame and film awareness, and usually Thriller films would range their target audience from 14 to 50 year olds, but a majority of 18 to 24 years olds would be their primary target audience as they'd be able to understand the concept more and would relate to a preferred meaning (they would agree with what has been given to them). Thus Thriller-film directors would try and resist attracting a Niche audience (except if it were an Independent Thriller film) then they would most likely have many who'd have an Oppositional Reading towards the film (Disagree with the given medium) or even a Negotiated Reading (Understand the text but agree on some aspects of the film). Also, we would aim toward a both male and female audience and try and expand our target audience as much as possible, in general 57% of women are targeted to watch a Thriller movie whereas 43% of males are targeted for Thriller films. In terms of demographics, we would aim our Thriller trailer towards working class (Group D).

In relation to our trailer, we have aimed our Thriller film towards 18 to 24 year olds and we may rely on a Niche audience, as it is classed an Independant British film, which was similarly styled with This is England which was an Independant film as it consisted of a Low budget (1.5 Million), distributed by an Independant film company (IFC) and had unexpectadly won an award at the 2007 British Academy Film Awards for best film thus transforming from a Niche audience to a Large worldwide reception.

I have also created 2 polls on the sidebar to see what others think in terms of Thriller movies, their conventions and what they'd usually expect to see in a Thriller trailer and what they'd expect from this film in general.