Evaluation - Who would be the audience for your media product?

The main target audience for the thriller genre of films is usually 15-50 year olds I found after researching into audience statistics. The average age rating for thriller films is a 15 certificate so the target age would not be under this, also after the age of 50 it is know that suspenseful, tense films will not appeal to the majority of elderly people. This has therefore given me an idea of what age range my thriller should be marketed at.

In terms of gender it is known that both males and females watch thriller films and there is not really an imbalance when it comes to one gender enjoying the genre more than the other. However males usually enjoy the action, suspense or horror side of films as they enjoy the adrenaline rush, and even though females are known to like this too, they are also known to prefer the enigma side of the thriller and the mysteries a thriller plot can present.
Therefore my audience for my thriller would most likely be both male and female and in the age range of 15-49 year olds.

These are the statistics I found when researching online however Guy and I then proceeded to Hand out a questionnaire to the public to do our own personal research and figure out what we could.  We asked who we could about wether they watch thriller films and the results came out as 8 for 16-21 year olds, 1 for 22-30 year olds and 2 for 31-49 year olds, These results allowed us to decipher that the 16-21 year olds are the most frequent watchers and most popular audience of thriller genre films.

www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/18    
www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15   These are websites that say about what to expect when watching a 15                                                                   or 18 rated film