Who is the audience for the short films you have looked at?

For my short film, I have been looking at Psychological thrillers like Shutter Island and Memento.

Shutter Island (2010) Directed by Martin Scorsese, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley

Memento (2000) Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Guy Pearce and Joe Pantoliano

This type of thriller is usually about the conflict between the characters and is often mental and emotional as opposed to physical, so this would normally attract maybe slightly more of a female audience than a male audience. Most psychological thrillers tend to have some kind of enigma for the audience to work out which is why some people do like watching psychological thrillers as they tend to make assumptions and try to find the conclusion as the film progresses which makes the audience seem like they are right in the middle of the action. There is also an element of horror in them, which can entice a certain type of person as they are thrill-seekers and usually a good psychological thriller can leave them feeling exhilirated. So, perhaps the type of audience for our short film would maybe ones who are maybe older, more intelligent, wanting more of a thought-provoking film which would leave them thinking about what they have seen and how it changed the way they think about certain films, that tickles the brain, because if the audience wasn't able to work out what happened at the end of the film, they might find it boring and deter them from watching any more movies in this type of genres. 

Here are the trailers for Shutter Island and Memento:

Memento: