Our Thriller production evaluation question 4 Who would be the audience for your media product?

By Thomas Cutmore

Who would be the audience of your media product?

Our age group would be more of a teenager young adult (16 20) age. This would be considered a suitable age for our media product as it our product has mature and adult themes such as murder and reflects the modern day problems of murders and stalkers out on the streets. This age would also be suitable as they can identify the age of the characters involved in the action. We would have a more local audience as our film was shot in Norwich, and by this our audience would recognise certain locations we used such as the St Peter Mancroft Church and Gentlemans Walk. Our film is more to a male audience as the male characters dominate more of the film than the female. We have made our thriller production to appeal to any ethnic races, but mostly white British as it reflects on the ethnicity of our characters on the screen.

Examples of these murder problems in society today

In the last year, over 70 murders were committed over the UK. Our production reflects on the seriousness and growing number of murders throughout the UK and a vast majority of these, for example Fico Dougan was killed in Croydon in 2013 by a knife and he was only 16 years old.

Who would be the audience of your media product? (continued)

The social group of our audience would be the middle class, but if we had the right backing and distribution (such as linking it to Se7en as our film represents the same chilling and disturbing personas that murders can carry and the activities they perform on their victims), which in this it could go up to a multiplex and high grossing independent film as the audience would love to be terrified by the ideas and events we show (i.e. being buried alive) Our audiences interests would be more of a horror/slasher as it reflects this within our product, however our audience may also have interests such as Dr Who as it holds an unreal element to the product. Our audience nationality however is anyone, but as our thriller is a low budget independent British film, we are aiming for more of the British audience.

The representation of the two psychopaths Michael from our production and John Doe from Se7en creates the same terrifying atmosphere about them.

How our media product may be advertised through social media

As our media product is independent, it would possibly shared through more social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It could also be shared and advertised through social media sites such as Youtube, attracting more of an audience through other film recommendations. We would use these types of social media as we would rely more on the audiences view as our film is not a high budget and features famous actors, we could use these social networking sites to use viewers as the word of mouth to spread to an outlet where we could potentially reach a larger audience.