Evaluation Q4 (Powerpoint)

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience that we had decided to use for our media product was aged from 18 and above, which meant that no one under the age of 18 would be able to watch our film due to unforeseen scenes. We did want to rate it from 15 and above, however we had researched and we found out that as our film includes a little girl getting kidnapped, therefore 15 year olds would not be aloud to watch this, resulting in us changing the age category to 18 and above. Also, we had researched what things are aloud and are suitable in a 18 rated film, and these are: 
- very strong violence
- frequent strong language (eg 'f***') and/or very strong language (eg ‘c***’)
- strong portrayals of sexual activity
- scenes of sexual violence
- strong horror
- strong blood and gore
- real sex (in some circumstances)
- discriminatory language and behaviour

Due to limited access for filming, we could not film in places such as in a studio, therefore we had to make use of what we had which was environments such as schools and parks, which we could've edited to make it look dangerous or frightening, however the only editing we did to the scene was that we made it brighter as the natural background lighting was very dark due to the season being winter, and as the daylight starts to dim after 4pm. To find out who our audience would be for our film, we thought we would conduct a questionnaire to find out what our target group would look for in our film, therefore we had asked them questions which were:

1) From looking at our storyboard what would you expect the genre of the film to be?
2) From looking at our storyboard what do you think will happen in the film?
3) What do you think will happen next?
4) What do you expect to see in a normal thriller movie?

After we had received the answers back from the questions, we bared this in mind and made our movie according to the focus group recording. This helped my group as we had now known how we could keep the audience entertained throughout our film, without them getting bored.