Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

We chose to create a questionnaire to research our audience’s expectations of a thriller film, we asked them their age, so we knew what kind of age range we were going to pick for our film, furthermore we asked them what things they typically look for in a thriller movie, this helped us to pick what kind of opening we were going to have, for example, action, mystery, psychological.

Once we had collected all our research from our questionnaires, we had found that a lot more people enjoyed psychological thrillers; we also decided that our film was going to be aimed at people of the age of 15 or over, it seemed to be the most realistic classification for our opening, in this type of classification:



· Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse.

· Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised.

· Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) can be allowed provided the detail of such is low so that it cannot create too much of an impression of the viewer. Abuse of weapons which are easily obtained will not be tolerated.

· Nudity in a sexual content must be restricted however nudity in a non-sexual content does not.

· Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.

· As long as the film is appropriate for 15 year olds, no certain themes are prohibited.

We chose this age classification because most people aged 15 up to 17 and even 18+ enjoy thrillers and so this classification will be well suited to them, we also feel it is suited to both genders, this means we have a very large audience range to be able to watch our thriller.

The BBFC rating did affect our target audience; this is due to the guidelines for the age limits, we had to consider what the rest of the film would include after our opening, consisting death/murder and whether it would have any offensive language further into the film, this could potentially push it to an 18, which would lower the amount of people who are able to see the thriller.

With our thriller we haven’t tried to target one specific audience, we want everyone above the age restriction to be able to watch it and enjoy it, so our main demographic for our film is a male or female, over the age of 15 of any ethnic background that enjoy thriller films, people who probably enjoy watching programs such as Silent Witness or Ripper Street, programmes about murder in areas they have probably heard of so they can feel more suspense and feel more related to the program.