Secondary Audience Research

It is important when expanding your story to take genre into consideration. The genre of your idea can appeal to a specific audience type so it is important to take them into consideration when you are planning your idea. It is important to consider these factors and base your ideas around the audience that you are attempting to reach, basing characters, tones, events and story around them.

Sci-Fi Thriller Audience:

Gender- Although there are a large demographic of women who watch  these films, this genre is typically aimed at male audiences. This largely due to the action that tends to follow with this genre of film.

Age- The usual age of people watching this genre tends to be anywhere from teens and above. This is typically due towards the mature themes that can be seen in some films or the complex story telling that would not suit a younger audience.

Class- This genre of film would usually appeal to a working and above class. This is due to the genre of storytelling that sometimes will provoke a lot of thought amongst the audiences and this type of story telling may not have the same appeal to a stereotypical person in a lower class.

Interests- This genre is typically associated with tense storytelling, sci-fi elements and in some cases action. This means that the story should cover most or all of these bases in order to appeal tot he right target audience.

Overall we can see that this genre mainly applies to males of a teen or older age demographic who have an interest in the story components that fall with it. It is important that the audience can be engrossed into the story and characters in the film by allying there to be enough elements to appeal to the genre.