This document analyzes audience data from three thriller/drama films: Inside Man, The Siege, and The Departed. It finds that for all three films, the majority of the audience was male between the ages of 15-34, from social classes ABC1. This suggests the target audience for this genre of thriller film is young professional males, as they are most attracted to the suspenseful elements.

3.  As you can see from the slide before there is a breakdown of the
audience that went to see Inside man when it was in the cinema.
 The film is a classic thriller/ drama that uses suspense as a major
factor within the film
 The gender breakdown of the film was 64% male and 34% female
 The majority of the ages that went to see it was 15-34
 The social classes that went to see it where in majority ABC1
 All of these findings here suggest to us for this particular kind of thriller
that The Target audience is 15-34 year old males that have or are in
the social class of ABC1
 These findings reveal that it is predominantly young males that go to
see this kind of thriller showing that maybe this kind of movie is more
attractive to younger males due to the suspense factor.

5.  The film traitor is again a thriller / drama with the conspiracy
element within it. This also still uses suspense as a key element
within it.
 Even though there wasn’t any data for traitor in terms of the
audience. There is The siege audience breakdown which is a
very similar film
 As we can see from the table yet again it is mainly male
orientated with about 60% males.
 The ages again stretch from 15-34 again having quite a large
base of a young audience.
 The social class’s of the film yet again is mainly ABC1
 Again suggesting that this genre of film attracts young males
that a proffesional’s or students

7.  The departed is a film about a gang culture within boston in
america, where the police have infiltrated an irish mob gang
and the police have got a mole from the gang within its ranks
 This is a classic example of a high stakes and high suspense
thriller with having a unexpected twists and turns through out
 The main gender that went to see the film as male with about
70% been male
 The majority of the ages that went to see the film was again
15-34 again suggesting that the most attracted to this type of
film is young males.

8.  To conclude my secondary audience research on the thriller
/ drama genre i have found the following points:
 The majority of the audiences watching it are males between
the ages of 15-34.
 This research has shown to me that thrillers are predominantly
watched by males suggesting to me that my film’s Target
audience is young males and i will aim my audience more to
the male market.