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

We as a group have decided that the target audience for our Thriller movie is for people over the age of 18. This is because thriller movies create tension and fear which is un-acceptable for people under the age of 18. When we first started our media unit we researched into different thriller movies and most of them where either rated at 15 or 18 depending on their content. Because our thriller opening did not include any real disturbing scenes we have decide that its target audience is for people over the age of 15. The BBFC states that a 15 rated film/ trailer must not include any explicit language or discrimination, but they do state that strong threats of horror and menace is permitted as well as dangerous/ violent behaviour if not too much detail is shown. Out film does include violence but we do not go into details and show the full effects of the violence and how it affected the victim. We believe that our thriller opening follows these guide lines and it does not breach any of then, this is why we believe that our thriller opening should be rated at ‘15’.

From our feedback we concluded that most people believe that a thriller opening has to be gripping, exciting, building up the tension etc, to do this scenes have to be created which build tension and grip the audience. This means that most thriller movies will be rated 15 or over because most people want scenes in thriller movies which are probably­­­ un suitable for people under the age of 15.

Thriller audience profile

The main audience for our thriller is for people aged between 18 and 40. This is because our thriller includes scenes which are preferred by the younger and mid aged age group. Our thriller is more likely going to be more popular with male audiences because it includes violence and torture which is usually preferred by the male gender. Thriller movies can be watched by anyone with different backgrounds because there are so many sub-genres of the thriller genre that there is one for everyone. People who are into gangster and police movies/ books such as Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels etc, our thriller will be perfect because it includes police officers/ detectives and criminals/ gangsters.

Feedback

Once out thriller was completed and fully edited we then decide to get feedback from students at our school. To get feedback we got two students to watch out thriller opening and then comment on how they liked it, we recorded what they replied with and I have placed the two videos below. One of the videos is named ‘Question 4 – Interview with Joe James’ and ‘Question 4 – Interview with Kingston Capes’. Both of them are very similar and they are both asked very similar questions but with slightly different answers.