1. Evaluation Question 4 – Zak Green
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Who is our target audience?
The age rating of our film opening is 15 meaning that anyone aged 15 and above will be able
to see this film. However to be more precise I think that our target audience will be aged
between 15-20 simply because the actor in the opening is a teen meaning that the audience
could relate to them.
Identifying our target audience
In order to find our target audience we carried out a survey in order to find what the
audience like in a thriller filmand from that information we were able to produce an
opening that would satisfy the audience’s needs. Looking at the feedback on our survey we
found out that the thing that people most like about thriller films is the build-up of suspense
and I think that in our opening there is build-up of suspense, for example when the
protagonist was slowly walking to the garage. From the survey we also found out that the
perfect age rating for this film was 15 because the majority of the people who took the
survey were 15 years old or above and having this age rating allows us to include more
blood and gore into the film opening which makes it more interesting to watch.
2. Here we can see that the majority of the people that took the survey were aged between
10-20 years old. From this we decided to make the age rating of our film 15 simply because
there was no point in taking the risk and making the age rating 12 where we couldn’t
include a few things that are in our opening, therefore we decided to use the 15 age rating
because it means we can include things like the hammer with blood on it and the murder.
Looking at the survey results shown here we can see that the one thing that people enjoy
most about thriller films is the fact that they build up a lot suspense and viewers enjoy that.
Due to people enjoying the build-up of suspense we decided to add music and dark lighting
to our opening in order to help build up suspense and make the people that are watching
the opening enjoy it that little bit more.
We also researched the age classification on the British Board of Film website we were
100% sure that our target audience would be 15 or above. Obviously we would’ve preferred
the age rating to have been lower because that would’ve let more people be able to see the
film. But we couldn’t go with the 12 age rating because violence was not permitted and in
our opening there is a scene with violence and that is a very important bit of the opening
which meant it wasn’t possible to remove that part.
3. Our Typical Audience Profile
Our typical male audience member is your average 17 year old teenage boy
An existing filmthat is similar to ours is the Purge which actually has the same film rating as
ours (15). The filmhas suspense (like ours), and unsettling and disturbing scenes (like ours).
Both films are likely to draw the same type of audience due to the fact that there are lots of
similarities.
Hobbies:
Goingto the cinemawithhismates
to see thrillerfilms
Gym
LikesFootball
Readingthrillerbooks
Favourite Movies:
Godfather
Woman InBlack
Kingsman
Batman ArkhamKnight
Occupation:
Student At College
