Research For Audience Of Our Film

The thriller Genre is primarily aimed at an audience between the ages of 12 and 18. The minimum certificate rating expected for a thriller film is 12 or the more recent 12A certificate. However there are many limitations of a 12 certificate, content has to be very much restrained, particularly that which would be featured in a thriller film. The 12 or 12A certificate only allows infrequent strong language and moderate violence.

My film however will be targeted at an audience of 15+. This is because the audience that the thriller genre is very dependent on is the teenage market. Also as the rules are much more relaxed, especially in comparison to 12 or 12A. The 15 certificate age rating allows for strong violence, frequent strong language, portrayals of sexual activity, strong verbal references to sex, sexual nudity, brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence, discriminatory language or behavior and drug taking.

This therefore is the rating I will choose for my film as anything that needs to be included for a successful. If I was to choose an 18 rating for my film that would be cutting off a significant proportion of the intended audience for my thriller film. On top of secluding some of the audience for my film the benefits an 18 certificate could possibly give me in terms of content are not necessary and therefore an 18 age rating would be very unwise.