Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

 

Our target audience for our opening was teenagers. We chose them because our production team are all teenagers, so we know what types of thing they like/dislike meaning we would produce something that they could relate to and enjoy. Also teenager do watch a lot of thriller films to escape the classic children films and see a more realistic views of the world, while getting a lot of joy and excitement out of them. The age range we are looking at are 15-18 as this is the age people really start to watch more disturbing and shocking films. We aimed our opening for both genders, as psychological thriller don't have narrative that is genre specific (like a love story for girls), they care more about the plot-twists and the shocking elements within the film, something we did in our opening.  Our audience uses social networks, like Twitter and Facebook, they are interested in show like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Sherlock' and will only watch films that have unpredictable storyline, have good actors in them and are original-nothing like they have ever seen before.   Other types of thriller films they would enjoy are; 'The Dark Knight', 'Pulp Fiction' and ‘Black Swan'.

We researched in our audience by doing a questionnaire. We did ask a range of different people, but all the people we asked aged 15-18 all showed similar interest in thriller films.  We learnt they like psychological thrillers, with weapon, blood and dead bodies. Also we learnt they didn't have a preference in what gender the antagonist and protagonist should be. From this we created a storyboard, where we asked three very different teenagers their opinion of our storyline. We mainly got positive feedback and we learnt that teenager do really like a good plot-twist, suspense and mystery.

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is responsible for the national classification and censorship of films within the United Kingdom. I think they would rate our film a 15.  I think this because it does contain a murder, which shows blood and dying of a young women and it deals with a very serious subject of violence’s, death and murder-both of which a child shouldn't be exposed to at a young age. Also the way we build up the tension in the opening with the music, the dark lighting would be to disturbing for a child to watch and could cause the child psychological damage.  This wouldn't impact our target audience as they are the correct age to watch the film, in fact it could encourage them to watch it as they will know what types of thing can be in a 15.