Target Audience

Target audience for thrillers:

Socio-economic classes:

A- Highly skilled workers

B-middle skilled e.g. teachers

C1- lower middle classes e.g. managers

C2- Skilled workers e.g. factory workers

D- Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers e.g. builders

E- Students (primary and secondary schools), Unemployed and pensioners/retired

 

Target audience for the film ‘Dead Silence’

 

Plot: After receiving a weird package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered and he believes Mary Shaw and Billy are behind it. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

Dead Silence is a horror/thriller film and is certificated a 15. This film is mainly targeting classes E, D and C2. This is because of its plot as it is really easy to follow and the use of mise-en-scene is crime and horror which upper classes wouldn’t enjoy e.g. guns and weapons.