evaluation question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience we have chosen for our film is above the age of 15 because our film is slightly creepy and mysterious, therefore anyone younger than fifteen might not understand the plot, or may be too frightened by some of the scenes we would include, for example we emphasise the idea that people get murdered, which would not be suitable for anyone under that age. This age limit is conventional for typical horrors because horrors need to show these kind of scenes that would be unsuitable for certain ages so that the film would be effectve and believable. Very few horrors are created with a certificate lower than 15. The typical target audience for a conventional horror is male teenagers between 18 and 24. Our film challenges this stereotype as our main character is female, and also has the mind of a child, which means that our film appeals to both females and males. We have kept to the generic stereotype of having a female victim, but we have also challenged this stereotype by having a female aggressor rather than a male.
i think that our film would appeal to more females than males because the main character is a teenage girl and therefore females at this age would identify with the character and therefore understand the significance of her strange behaviour.
Our film can also link to The Orphanage in terms of target audience, for example the two main characters in The Orphanage are the young boy Simon and his mother. Again the child seems more threatening, which is similar to that of the child in our film. This is not conventional of a horror, because the child is normally vulnerable and unprotected, but in this case the child is to be feared. This theme makes both films more psychological rather than stereotypical horrors i.e. violence, blood and monsters. This would reach a wider target audience for both males and females. Being that our film is more pyschological rather than a slasher, could be stereotypically aimed at people of a higher education, to be able to understand our plot, however this theory is very generally stereotypical.

The idea that our film is open to both males and females means that we can reach a larger market and therefore a wider target audience. This is a stereotypical example of our target audience.

i do not think that our film identifies with any particular race or class, it is open to all people of any race or class, however our film has an urban setting, in a working class area so the audience may be able to identify with the film more if they are from this kind of background, but it is not a necessity for the plot to be percieved or realised. Our main character is white, however the Rag Doll is black, so i do not think that the race makes a difference, the fact that we have used different races in our film means that it is not aimed at any particular race.