Question 4: Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

After researching the BBFC and analysing the contents charts that are used to determine certificates of films by the BBFC, we came to the conclusion that our thriller came under the 15 certificate  Psychological thrillers tend to have around a 15 certificate due to the psychological element within them that could potentially upset younger age groups such as: violence  death, paranormal activity.  Our thriller is not aimed at a particular gender but the age group we predict to be most interested in our kind of film is 15 – 25 year olds due to the questionnaires and research we carried out on people’s interests in thrillers. We aimed the majority of our questionnaires at this age group due to the research we carried out online to find that the majority of audiences for thrillers where in that age range.

From the research we carried out we found out that the audiences preference were in psychological and action thrillers, as an action thriller was less practical to us we choose to go with the psychological theme. We also found out that our audience liked to see close up shots and flashing images within the thriller so we tried to incorporate these elements in as best as we could to please our audience.

Our main target audience is teenagers and adults between the ages 15 and 25 of both genders. We are targeting people interested in films with interest in thrillers in general possibly favouring psychological thrillers. The audience member is a generally normal stereotypical teenager / young adult with common interests in TV and music taste up to date with the music and blockbuster charts. We are not targeting any kind of ethical background.