Audience Profile

The audience for Psychological films varies in many ways - mainly dependent on the sub-genre of the film in question. For instance, Psychological Thriller films, and Psychological Horror films differ in many ways, but as I'm now sure that I will be making a Psychological Thriller, I will now go into detail regarding the type of person I expect will watch my film.

Audience
My audience has an age range of 15-40 years of age, and in my eyes only certain groups of people will watch these films. To evaluate this, we must first look at the conventions of a Psychological Thriller:

• They can often have difficult or complex storylines
• They are quite dark in atmosphere
• They are often used in popular culture by youths 
• There should be a message to the film

These conventions imply that the people who watch it should have a certain level of intelligence, to put it bluntly, nobody who falls under the stereotype of chav or white trash, rather someone who may be perceived to be dark, for example Donnie Darko has a big following among the Rock Music Community as well as a more mature audience.

So I now know that I have to make my film appeal to 15-40 year old people, who are members of the Rock Music Community, who have followed the genre for a long time, Who have the capacity to understand and appreciate my film and who can't enjoy the film without asking questions.

This seems rather vague, but to me it makes life slightly easier.