Evaluation - Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our intended audience for our thriller product would be a teenage audience of males and females. I have decided this based upon the results of my audience survey which I carried out. We also wanted to target a teenage audience so we could showcase our thriller opening within the school and get some feedback.

40% of the people who answered by survey were situated in the 16 to 19 age demographic and I received an exact 50/50 split for males and females. We felt that this age demographic was appropriate as we all fitted into the same age range, therefore, our audience could relate to our film more closely than if the characters in the film where older than the audience themselves. We also have both genders, male and female acting in our film, therefore, this makes the film more appealing to everyone in our age bracket.

                                 

In my survey I also asked the question "What is your favourite sub-genre of a Thriller film?". The results from this question is the reason why we decided to include a crime/psychological aspect to our thriller via only giving brief hints to what might have happened to Jazz throughout the use of camera and mise-en-scene. 

Did she commit suicide? Is that what the pills where for? Was she murdered? Is the death staged to look like suicide but its not?

These are all the questions we want our audience to be asking from watching our opening creating that psychological/crime feeling.

Myself and my other group members who are all aged 16/17 enjoy watching psychological thrillers and we also knew that our friends and other pupils in our school enjoy watching thrillers of this sub-genre too, therefore, this sub-genre was proving to be the most beneficial one for us to use.