Evaluation, Task 4.

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Teenagers are the main audience for our media product, they are the ones who feature in the film and who would probably appreciate its ‘teen slasher’ feel. 

Here is a cast study on a group of teenagers; we think are the perfect audience for our film:

They are Lauren and Hannah Smith with their friends John Jones and Mike Davis. They are aged between 15- 16 in their final year at school. They all enjoy listening to popular music which is in the charts and dress according to fashion trends. The girls like to shop in River Island, Top shop, Miss Selfridges, and New look. The boys like to shop in Duffer, River Island, Top Man and Next.

All of them enjoy, shopping, going bowling, going to the cinema, attending parties, and in general spending time with friends at the weekend.

They all tend to rent out films together to watch at the weekend; they nearly always go for horrors like ‘scream’ , ‘I know what you did last summer’ ‘The ring’, ‘Cabin fever’ and ‘The Hills have eyes’  sometimes they go for the comedy horrors like ‘scary movie’. They also enjoy going to the cinema to watch films and tend to go for the latest horror which is out, they all booked tickets to go and watch the horror phenomena ‘paranormal activity’ when it first came out then later ‘paranormal activity’ which they enjoyed equally as much.

On television they like to watch the Vampire Diaries (co-incidentally the screen play is done by Kevin Williamson who also created the screen play for ‘scream’ and ‘I know what you did last summer’. They also like to watch supernatural, Heroes, Friends, Smallville and Hollyoaks.

We think this film would appeal to this group of teenagers because our film, is the sort of thing which they enjoy watching and if it had been produced by teenagers and had teenagers in the task it would very much appeal to them all the more as they would feel more connected with it and more obliged to watch it. Horror is also very much their genre and they like the thrill you get from watching them and the eerie atmosphere they can create.