Evaluation question 4

Evaluation question 4

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

Our film opening was a horror based on a abandoned mental asylum. Our main characters were teenagers of the age 16-17. Therefore our film would be aimed at teenagers from the age of 16 up to early 20s. The reason for this is because this audience range will be able to connect with the feelings the actors experience, because they are of a similar age.

When it came to planning our film, we had a rough idea of the age we would mainly like to produce this film for. This mainly students (13-18). It then came to choosing our genre of film. After our research we chose a horror as we felt most confident in filming this, and we had lots of ideas. Due to our research into horrors, they mainly varied form age limits of 15 and 18. We then had to rethink our age options for our audience. This is when we then chose 16- early 20s because we thought this was a suitable age for a horror film.

We chose to use actors who were teenagers because of our audience. By having teenagers act allows us to show to the audience directly how the characters are feeling in this situation, and they would be experiencing a very similar effect due to the similar age. This also makes our film have more a sense of realism because teenagers are more likely to go exploring in places like this than a adult would. So this also allows us to connect with the audience and make them more intrigued whilst watching our film opening.

However we did also have a older generation in mind when we were researching our film. This is because from a lot of the films we watched, they included the older generation as either parents or the scary characters themeselves. However due to the lack of time we have left ourselves with, we decided to simply use our generation of characters.

Although we have aimed this at our chosen audience, this does not mean that adults cannot still watch our film. Not only due to being a horror but also because this may show to them the thoughts and feeling that go through teenagers heads, which they can then relate to their children. This could also give a flash back for the adults because they probably once would of gone exploring with their mates, and possibly come across things like this. Which may bring back memory's and show how they have grown up over the years.