Audience Expectations

Audience Expectations

A target audience expects a highly intense, suspense, a high level of anticipation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. These are key conventions of what most successful thriller films consist of and what audiences initially expect to see. The target audience wants to see at least one clear plot twist within the film and they want to be in the unknowing through most of it. Through secondary research I have identify that audience expect a strong start and they want to be on their edge of their seats with them not knowing what’s going to happen next. Through the primary research that we already conducted we understood that music was a hugely important element of a thriller film and the audience find a clear relationship between a thriller and its music. Key Characters in thrillers that audience expect to see are convicts, criminals, stalkers, assassins, down-on-their-luck losers, innocent victims.