MY POTENTIAL TARGET AUDIENCE

Questionnaire finding out about target audience questions:

1. whats your favourite film genre?
2. What is your favourite thriller sub-genre? 
3. Do you prefer thrillers that have simple or complicated plot lines?
4. Do you prefer films based in modern days or olden days?
5. What is your favourite thriller film?
6. who is your favourite thriller film actor?
7. who is your favourite director?  
8. Do you like opening sequences with actors in or with a simple back drop?
9. What music would you expect to hear in a thriller film? (choose two)

Answers for our questionnaire:

1. (3 said) Comedy, (4 said) thriller, (2 said) Romantic comedy, Action 
2. Psychological thriller, (4 said) Action thriller, Crime thriller, (two said) conspiracy thriller, Techno Thriller, Mystery Thriller
3. (5 said) complicated, (5 said) simple
4. (8 said) modern days, (2 said) olden days
5. Taken, Scar Face, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Kill Bill, GoodFellers, No country for Old Men, (2 people said) Limitless, Inception 
6. Daniel day Lewis, Robert De Niro, (two people said) Lion Nesson, Judi Dench, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Angelina Jolie.
7. (Two people said) Paul Thomas Anderson, (4 people said) Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, (two said) Alfred Hitchcock
8. (9 said) with actors, (1 said) with a simple backdrop.
9. (4 said) Fast paced, (3 said) slow paced, (4 people) loud music, (4 said) quiet music, (2 said) soft and gentle, (3 said) violent and agressive.  

My potential target audience for my thriller film would be an 15. This would be because it presents issues such as drug abuse and a lot of references to sexual abuse, this would be show through the whole movie, not in the introduction. However it would not be directly shown but more the effects of drugs.