2. Who would be the audience for your
media product?
I believe that my thriller would appeal for people
between 15 and 60 years old and the age rating would
be 15 according to the BBFC. The age rating would
definitely rule out any audience under 15.
From this we can tell that my predicted age range fits
the information shown above. I could also tell that
from my questionnaire that I did for my peers to fill in,
there were a few that liked thrillers. This is why the
age range is so wide spread.
3. Who would be the audience for your
media product? (extended)
Due to the age rating, the lowest age of the consumer would be 15. This is
because if I intended to actually make this, the film would have scenes of
strong violence and minimal drug use, which is part of what the BBFC states
that makes a 15 rating. Only people in the UK would primarily watch my film
due to the distribution company. Maybe a few other English speaking
countries may have it pop up now and again.
In terms of ethnic groups, there is no particular theme of religion so
all could be interested depending on their personal tastes. It
wouldn’t particularly a long movie so people would who had a tight
schedule might appeal to it as they could watch it quickly before
bed or whilst eating dinner. It’s a psychological thriller so it would
be for a more mature and heavy thinking audience and would
appeal to the adequate thinking.
This film is intended (if actually made) to have a plot twist at the
end and so this gives it the ability to be re-watchable, as they would
be able to watch it to look for clues they missed. People who enjoy
things like murder mysteries and other puzzling things will like to
give this film a watch. People who are into the gritty, dark, cold
coloured sort of movies will also like this movie. The typical grimy
“British look” is a very popular convention and the movie stays true
to this.
4. How does your media product represent particular
social groups?
The film opening firstly represent the British as a social group,
people who live an urban, graffiti covered environment. The
camera angles and types of shots show that this character is a
mental but suppressed man who distances himself from others
(hence the various long shots) but the shots get closer to make
the audience more involved with the character. We could gather
that the man has a deep secret that is kept from the secret. We
see this in the shot showing him digging. This suggests that
murder could be associated with the mentally deranged. The
mental instability is shown from when he has a laughing fit after
waking up in the morning and we see the sudden change of
emotion from him when he looked at the paper and there was
the shot of the fist clenching. It could show how easy it is to
escape the police as he wakes the next morning unharmed, when
just the day before we could faintly hear sirens in the
background. This opening already shows that the British police
could be quite easy to outsmart.
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