Thursday, 16 April 2015

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media production?

The audience for my media product would be predominately male teenagers aged between 12 and 18. Their ethnicity would most likely be white because they are the ethnicity of the different characters that I have shown. These male teenagers are going to be students some with a part time job so they can afford to go the see the film. There is a possibility for some female audiences to attend as well because they either are fans of the same genre or are interested in the romantic side of the film. Since my film contains horror, action, adventure, romance and fantasy genres my audience would be rather wide allowing for multiple types of people to be interested in the film. For example some people may like rock music others metal and others techno. This can all be incorporated into the non-diegetic music that I use. Most teenagers like to go out with friends and so because this film appeals to multiple people it is something they can all go and view.

When I first started to look at the conventions of the genres for my film I had in the back of my mind what I was capable of doing. It could not be an 18 rated because I cannot create the gory sections of a horror however I can use harsh language and strong references in my themes. When I began my research into other films such as ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, ‘Carrie’ and ‘House of A 1000 Corpses’ along with ‘The British Board of Film Classification’ is when I really thought about what my rating should be. Through the films I looked at I noticed what sort of films and representations where shown. I then compared this to what I am capable off and decided that a low rating such as a 15 would be the best suited. However this changed after looking at the BBFC and see how they classify films and their descriptions. This is when I made the classification 12. It was only when I created the audience profiles that I started to get deeper in what type of people are most likely going to see my film.


I think that my target audience will want to see my film because it is a good start for getting into horror films and because there are a lot of aspects that I have involved that will attracted them such as incredible action sequences, attractive female roles, an impressive story line and enough attracting elements to make them want to see and learn more. My audience would also watch my media product because it involves many different genres of film that they like such as action and horror so would like to see whether they can be put together and make an interesting and exciting block buster.

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