With our film I would say that our target audience would be around
teenagers to adults because it is a suitable age for the people to understand
the conventions of the film I would say the film would be a 15 rated film
because it contains action with a lot of weapons so it would be inappropriate
for people younger than 15 I would say our film is mainly aimed at males
because it contains lots of guns and action which is more suitable to them rather
than females because they might not like the style of the film. One demographic
issue would be that people under the target age they might not get the idea of
the film and they wouldn’t understand why the things are happening to the
person. But I think that most of the older generation would understand and like
the thriller genre because they get the idea of the convention and they like
the fact that the speed of the different shots because some of the shots only
last a few seconds as they cut to the next shot because they don’t want to be
waiting a long time for an opening.
Our typical target audience if we had to concentrate on a specific age
groups or gender would properly be from mid-teens to young adults because they
would be into these types of films because they use the newest technology so
they would watch a lot of films in their spare time.
Another factor would be that the
audience would probably be more aimed at males because it has lots of action
contains weapons which are more aimed at males. The final factor that I would
like our audience to is video gamers that play violent, gun based games because
it would compare to them sort of games because there is a huge market that lots
of people are into and I think that would be our typical audience member
because people in the age group would still be in education either at school,
sixth form or university and they might be students studying media, but on the
other hand lots of females are interested in media and watch a lots of films so
in a way the film could be aimed at both because the thriller audience is huge
and can apply to most people.
This is a random member of our ‘Vox Pop’ audience that we have picked
out, we aimed to get from the ages 15 to 35 because it has a wide range of
different people’s views on films and different genres that people like so the
audience we got was important because we had different reviews about thrillers
because we had people who liked Action/Thrillers and others with a
Psychological feel. So the different conventions the audience likes can change
depending on what they like. We choose people from around our school to
volunteer in our interview. The people that took part were interested In sport,
gaming and watching films so the people were similar but the results of watch
style they liked were very different.
This is a screenshot from our ‘Vox Pops’ interview where we spoke to
people of our age group to see what they liked in a thriller and any ideas for
use to use in our thriller film. From our ‘Vox Pops’ interviews we found very
important information that included ideas of what people in our target audience
like for example a lot of our target liked action in thrillers because it kept
them on their seats and stop the film from getting bored. The target audience
we had been mainly aimed at males because our film contains a lot of weapons
and violence which is more suited for the male gender. Another point for our
target audience was the ages because we had a range from teenagers to young
adults because this audience range use the latest technology so after they
watched our thriller they could give it a review or any comment that would help
us improve the film also the younger generation have more times and they watch
more films that others because they would understand the conventions and points
we were trying to put across.
If I was to link our film with the different age ratings from the BBFC I
was say that our film would classed as a 15 because the film might contains any
of the following:
§ strong
violence
§ Frequent
strong language (e.g. 'f***').
§ Portrayals
of sexual activity
§ Strong
verbal references to sex
§ Sexual
nudity
§ Brief
scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
§ Discriminatory
language or behaviour
§ Drug
taking
The people under this age might
not understand the meaning and conventions of the thriller; I also feel that it
would be inappropriate because there are lots of guns shown in the opening
which shows that the film might contain a lot of violence which isn’t the best
for younger children being introduction to gun war at a young age. The reason
that we put our film as a 15 instead of an 18 was because if we had less
audience then the film wouldn’t get as many views because it would restrict
them from watching so we would have a smaller audience by 3 years. Through our
research we found out what people liked in thrillers for example we used ‘Vox
Pops’ to gather information on what people liked about thriller to give our
team some valuable points about what we should include in our thriller because
we want to make sure that a wide audience liked our thriller because the
audience’s opinion is very important because if we get key information by using
a Vox Pop and don’t use it people won’t watch the film because we haven’t taken
their views into considerations.
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