Evaluation 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience by including blood and suspense and tension into our opening. These things are typical of classic thriller films, and should be what our audience expects when they watch a thriller film.

Our target audience is 25-34 year old males, as we found that this was the age and gender that most enjoy thriller films.

This is a comparable profile of  the thriller Zero Dark Thirty viewing statistics compared with a film called Green Zone. I found this on Pearl and Deans website.

Thriller films that are popular with the age range 25-34, for example Killing Them Softly, all include suspense and tension throughout, as well as a fair amount of blood/gore. This is why we felt it was so important to include these elements in our opening, to attract and maintain the viewers attention in the first 2 minutes.