Thriller in Audience

Thriller in Audience

Demographics:
.Age
.Gender
.Race/Nationality
.Socio-economic class
.Psychographics
.Interest and hobbies
Lifestyle and jobs

Demographics are found by putting people into categories depending on what their job is and their status. It is used to classify an audience into age, gender, race and other different categories like stated above. They are divided up into social grade which is either A,B,C1,C2,D or E, social status and also occupation.

Psychographics :
Resigned
Struggler
Mainstreamer
Aspirer
Succeeder
Explorer
Reformer 

Psychographics base a person on their social class, lifestyle and characteristics. It is also a way in which an audience is described by looking at their behavior and personality traits. It is catogorised into 6 groups, aspires, succeders, resigned, explorers, strugglers, reformers.

Socio-Economics 
A- CEO's, doctors, surgeons, headteachers
B- Teachers, high manager roles
C1- Nurses, accountants
C2- Plumbers, carpenters
D- Retail
E- Students, pensioners, unemployed

The Departed

The Departed as a hybrid film consisting of the crime, thriller and drama genres is targeted at an audience that would be able to relate to the film and understand the characters and the roles played by the characters in the film.  The age of the film is rated 18, is targeted at males of any race or nationality. 

The Departed would be targeted at the demographic group C2 and D. This is because the main character would be placed in the same demographic groups C2 and D, as the audience would relate to the film and the characters the most. 

The audience for the movie the departed consists of people who enjoy the genres crime, thriller and drama.  This suggests the psychographic groups for the film ‘The Departed’  would be Reformers and explorers, this is because the film is based on an under cover police officer and his experience of being a double agent. This is shown in explorers because of their individualism, experience and value for  difference. This is also shown in reformers because of their freedom of restrictions and have social awareness, suggesting the departed would interest them because of the main characters freedom of restrictions and social awareness.