Many psychological thrillers are aimed at older viewers with many of them having an age rating of either 15, or 18. This is due to the violence included. There are also psychological issues which are included that can be disturbing for many younger viewers and is not deemed appropriate. Viewers of psychological thrillers need to have a strong focus and mind on the plot as they play a detective role within the film in trying to figure it out generally along side of the main character. As the conflicts are mental instead of physical, the genre tends to attract more females than males, this is due to the struggle of the main character being more emotional.
Our opening will be aimed towards either males or females who are 15 years to 25 year olds. The age rating of our opening will be 15+ as it doesn't include very graphic elements, for example violence will only be hinted at or implied it won't be directly shown. On screen violence would look unprofessional in our opening as with a low budget its hard to make it look realistic. With our lack of experience it would be difficult to create a sequence that looks real without harming any actors. Our opening won't be an 18+ as the content won't be overly explicit. There is no locational target audience for my opening as the conflict is of the mind, there isn't a geographical location necessary for the audience to understand the plot. Our secondary target audience will be females above 15 years old to 25 year olds, this is due to the age of our protagonists. Our two main characters in the opening are two females, this reflects many other successful psychological thrillers with female leads such as Black Swan (2010) and Psycho (1960) and also reflects our target audience.
For our opening to successfully appeal to our target audience it has to build tension and suspense successfully. The plot will have to generate questions within the audiences' minds and make them question what is real and what isn't.
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