Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?


To find our suitable target audience for our film we produced audience questionnaires and when carrying them out we aimed them at 16-20 year olds. 

This is the result we got from our audience questionnaires and as you can see the majority were 16-20 year olds and out of them most of the audience were 17

Once we collected out questionnaires in that gave us more of a idea as a group of exactly what out audience wanted to see in our film, for example they expected the killer to be male

This is the results we got back from asking which character  they particularly expected to see within our sub genre.

This showed that our audience expected to see a male killer and female victim as our main victim and also other characters that are also victims for example lucy's boyfriend.

This is the audience profile i wrote up after receiving the questionnaires back, this helped us as a group as we knew exactly what our audience wanted and expected to see in our film and also helped our group so we knew exactly what sorts of things we had to include to make sure our film fit the typical codes and conventions of a slasher.

Other things our audience expected to see in our film ‘obsession’ was the colours red, black or white used, these would mainly be used for text or titles and are typical colours used for our specific sub genre.

This is evidence of more answers that our audience gave us, which related to the colour schemes of our film

When we asked our audience if they preferred it if the narrative of the plot was revealed at the beginning of the film through a voice over like ‘The Strangers’ the majority said no this was because the liked it to remain a surprise and found it annoying if too much was revealed.

Another aspect our audience believed that built the suspense was the music .

From the questionnaires the audience said that the kind of music they expected was eerie and this is typically the kind of music that is used in slasher films to build up the suspense and tension before something major is about to happen.

Overall our questionnaires that were filled out by the audience helped us to make our film and also include the aspects and main things that would appeal to them and also still fit the typical codes and conventions of a slasher horror film. It also gave us a clear insight to who our audience actually is (mainly 16-20 year olds).