Who would be the audience for your media product?Evaluation 4

Who is our audience? • To discover the audience for our horror film we looked at other horror films

that are similar to ours, so for example the Ring, which is a 15 age rated film. Because it is a horror film this means that it cannot be aimed at anyone too young, especially due to the gore in our film. So, we decided that our film was to be aimed at the minimum of 15 as it has young actors, and is based around first love so a younger audience would find it more appealing. Although older people may watch it our aim for the film is too target 15-19 year old teenagers, mainly girls. This is because the main character is a broken hearted girl, and her victims are also girls, so if females watch our film they will be more afraid as it suits their lifestyle more than males. Another reason for a young audience is that gore appeals more to them as the older generation do not seem to watch horrors as much as teenagers.

How are females represented?• Our representation of females in our film is both good and bad, because

although Elizabeth is killing people, we do understand why and we empathize with her. She is the most powerful character in our film, which was quite ironic as the beginning of our film was set in 1912 when females were seen as not important because males were the ones in charge, however in our film the women is the one that is powerful and strong which goes against the rules of the time. We did this because we wanted to challenge what people knew, so we thought if we placed this erratic character in our film it automatically gives the storyline a twist, as its more about how women could be been, rather than how they actually were.

How are males represented?• In our film males are shown to be the ‘bad’ characters, for example

Elizabeth's husband that leaves her at the alter, this shows he’s not a good guy as he has driven her to commit suicide. In the modern years the boys are portrayed better as they try to protect their girlfriends, however because of Elizabeth’s opinion they are all bad, and this does rub of on the audience as the boys never seem to be able to look after their girlfriends, for example, in the first scene we see a couple walking through the woods, but the boyfriend actually runs away when his girlfriend is being killed so this shows the negative representation.

Audience profile• Our audience would still be in education, probably A levels. • Often socialize with friends• Hobbies such as meals, cinema, theatre, reading

• Males prefer horrors including gore and violence• Females prefer psychological horrors, but watch gore with friends as

a laugh.

The type of horror film that they would watch would be; The Ring and Scream because they are both Teenage Horrors which focus on the young characters in the movie. So, I decided to use imdb to find out the ratings and which age preferred to watch the film…

The Ring

This graph shows that Females under the age of 18 watched the film the most. Which is good as this is our target audience and if they watched this film they are probably likely to watch ours too. There was also high ratings for under 18’s in general, so our age rating works well as this age is shown to watch more horrors than over 45’s who had an average of 7.0 compared to 7.4 that females under 18 rated.

ScreamThis graph shows that under 18’s gave the film the highest ratings, and mostly males. So, although ours is initially aimed at females, this shows that males are likely to watch it. Although the difference between our film and Scream is that our main role is a teenage girl, but the main role in Scream are both girls and boys, so boys would be likely to want to see it more. The people that were less likely to see this was females over 45, which shows that adults do not enjoy horror films as much as teenagers.

The Hole (2001)

This this graph we can see that once again males under the age of 18 are most likely to enjoy this film, this is then followed by females under 18, which shows that are target audience of 15-18 would definitely be best for our film as this is the age range that would enjoy our film the most.