Evaluation Question 4

'What would the audience be for your media product?'
Our media product has a main target audience of a mix of male and female viewers, from mid teens to mid twenties. We conducted lots of research upon who tends to view psychological horrors and what genre our narrative would fit exactly, and we found that this audience would be our primary target audience. This is because they enjoy the plot, and trying to work out what is going on. We also did research into what age would be the youngest to watch our film, and it would have been rated a 15 because it contained some elements of violence and that would not be appropriate for children to watch. The research we conducted was among teen-aged girls and boys of the age of 17-19 compared to people in their twenties and people younger than this and found that the teenagers would be most likely to watch a film like this.
 Being that the film is rated a 15, this means we can include strong language and strong violence, which is what the film would entail. The BBFC state this, and this means we would have to stick to these guidelines because if we didn't, there would be small chances of the film actually being produced.
The people watching the film would be of a similar age to those acting in it, meaning that the audience would be able to empathize with the characters better and therefore enjoy the film more. Also, a young target audience would be able to keep up with the fast pace of the film, and get adrenaline rushes from the tense scenes. We would have a fairly niche target audience, because it is a fairly niche genre: there is never really a very large target audience for psychological horrors because it only appeals to a small amount of people. We would have a fairly national audience, being british because the actors are british so the audience will again have the empathy for these characters.