Film Audiences: Thrillers

Thrillers in itself is a vast genre, and can have two thrillers with completely different audiences's

For Example.

The Film Posters

Red
The red boxes focus on the main points of the posters. In Twilight's' Poster, there are the three main characters. The girl in the center as the plot focus's on her, and the two boys on either side of her as they are both in love with her. Very romantic. The pictures are very pointed to the target audience 'Females' as they look very fitting to their characters, not smiling, very photoshopped and the clear focus of the poster.

The red box in The Dark Knight Rises poster mearly has Batman to focus on as he is the main character in the film. By doing this, it gets straight to the point. Stereo typically  as this film is targeted at males they don't want/need all the main characters in the poster, looking clearly at the camera obvious to everybody, whereas the films targeted at girls often have that. In this case he is in his costume, looking down and blending in with the background.

Blue
The blue boxes focus on the titles. In Twilight's poster, it has the signiture fantasy font in bright yellow, signifying the 'dawn'. The title in is the center of the poster underneath the characters making the top half of the poster the most key part.

The title in Batman is plain white bold text, very to the point, and is foregrounded against the faint batman logo.
When you look at the titles alone, you can clearly see the way the posters target the male and female demographic.

Green
The green boxes focus on the catchphrase/quote on the posters as well as the names of the cast in the film.
In Twilight's poster it doesn't have any names on the poster, possibly because its so famous most people know at least one person that's in it, and if that wouldn't be enough, the main characters are the main focus on the poster, so if you could name the name, you could probably name the faces. However it does have a phrase "The epic finale that will live forever" extremely dramatic.

Unlike the Twilight Poster, the Batman poster has the list of names at the top of the poster and the phrase below it. The names are in the same clear, bold white font and feature some big names like; Christian Bale, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Morgan Freeman & Gary Oldman. Basically everyone on the poster is extremely famous. The phrase 'A Fire Will Rise' is a bit more discrete than the Twilight one. I find this one much less cringey.

Orange
The orange boxes focus on the credits. In Twilight's poster, they are placed below a picture of the finale scene, so the focus is slightly taken away from them. Continued in the yellow colour, they feature the classic points in the credits, names, production and dates.

The Batman credits follow the same pattern, in their signature white, the names, producers, ect. However, the date is shown in a bigger font, therefore making that the focus as this finale is more built up than the Twilight saga as there were 3 main films for batman, whereas the Twilight films were split so less of a build up.


Age Ratings

Both films where rated 12a, meaning they could get equal amounts of an audience going to the films, as neither restricted what the other didn't.

Trailers
Both films have their official trailers online.
On Youtube:

Both trailers have 30+ million views, with Twilight just ahead.

The Dark Knight Rises audience is on the Left and the Breaking Dawn Part 2 audience is the Right.