This document profiles the target audience for a psychological thriller film being made by Blake Garner and Ben Higgins. It notes that typical psychological thrillers are rated 18+ due to disturbing violence and psychological issues. However, their film aims for a 15+ rating for males and females interested in thrillers by avoiding explicit violence, psychological problems, or sexual content in the opening sequence. It provides examples of similar rated films like "Vacancy," "Memento," and "Fatal Attraction."

1. AUDIENCE PROFILE
Blake Garner & Ben Higgins

2. TypicalAudience for aThriller
For psychological thriller they include a lot of violence and
some psychological issues that can be disturbing for many
younger viewers, this is why the target audience of many
psychological thrillers are 18+.
This is also why there is usually warming's on the back the
of DVD cover which states why it is rated as it is e.g.
contains extreme violence or sexual scenes.

3. OurTargetAudience
For are thriller we are going to be aiming it at people aged
15+ males and females that enjoy thriller films.We have
choose are opening sequence to have a rating of 15+
because there is no detailed aspects of violence and no
psychological problems.We did not rate it an 18+ like
typical thrillers because the content is not overly explicit
and there is no sexual themes.

4. FilmsWith a SimilarTarget Audience
•‘Vacancy’ directed by Nimrod Antal
•‘Memento’ directed by Christopher Nolan
•‘Fatal Attraction’ directed by Adrian Lyne