Who would be the audience for our media product?
The audience for our media product is young males. We have chosen this as our audience because we believe that the young males would instantly be made aware that all of the victims throughout the opening title sequence were pretty young females, it would attract them and make them want to watch it. Using females as the victims also showed that they are weaker and more vulnerable than men. By targeting young males to like our media product we had to make sure that it would have the right characters and all sorts of women casting in it. Using a dominant male to tourture the victims showed that the male is more powerful than the women. Using this theory means that the audience will want to know what else is going to happen. I think that the opening title sequence has met all of its targets and has for filled what we aimed it to do. The media product has also met the target audience successfully. The villain's face was never shown in our opening title sequence, this created an effect as the audience would want to know who it is.
We chose this target audience as most of the characters in our OTS were around the same age so the audience could relate to them. We didn't think older adults would be very interested in a gory horror film as from our research we found that they prefer more thriller type films with detectives and crimes. Young children would not be a suitable target audience for out OTS as they could find it too scary.
After watching our OTS we asked a range of ages to give an opinion on it.
Age 11- "I found it way to scary and it's going to give me nightmares."
Age 17- "I thought it was really interesting even though it was only an opening title sequence it still managed to put me on edge with all the gruesome aspects and it made me want to watch the rest of the film as I really enjoy gory horrors."
Age 40- "Even though it seemed like it would have a good story to it as is it clear the killer is a psychopath, I still found the gore ruined it a bit. I prefer films that have investigations and detectives not just unneeded gore.
We chose this target audience as most of the characters in our OTS were around the same age so the audience could relate to them. We didn't think older adults would be very interested in a gory horror film as from our research we found that they prefer more thriller type films with detectives and crimes. Young children would not be a suitable target audience for out OTS as they could find it too scary.
After watching our OTS we asked a range of ages to give an opinion on it.
Age 11- "I found it way to scary and it's going to give me nightmares."
Age 17- "I thought it was really interesting even though it was only an opening title sequence it still managed to put me on edge with all the gruesome aspects and it made me want to watch the rest of the film as I really enjoy gory horrors."
Age 40- "Even though it seemed like it would have a good story to it as is it clear the killer is a psychopath, I still found the gore ruined it a bit. I prefer films that have investigations and detectives not just unneeded gore.