Typical Audience

There is quite significant variation in the audience of crime/thriller films concerning both age and gender. For example:

- 'Gone Girl' - 25-39 year old women
- 'Girl on the Train' - young women
- 'Zodiac' - 40-54 year old men
- 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' - 40-54 women
- 'Seven' - 40-54 year old men

The only link I can draw from these statistics is between the gender and age of the protagonist and the general audience; for example, the protagonists of both 'Gone Girl' and 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' are female and the overall audience gender for the films was also female. Therefore, as my film has a female protagonist my target audience will also be female.
Although these films tend to have older target audiences, television programmes in the same genre such as the US show 'Pretty Little Liars' has a general audience age of 18-24. They achieve this by including age appropriate intertextuality and teenage protagonists. This is what would be included in my film to appeal to a younger target audience.

The general socio-economic profile of the audiences for 'Gone Girl', 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and 'Seven' is ABC1 so that will, therefore, be my target audience too as it is a popular film genre for this social status.