evaluation question 4

Who would be the audience be for your media product?

The audience for our media product is male teenagers to middle aged men and film enthusiasts with an interest in smaller production films as well as any one who enjoys the action/thriller genre. So people who enjoyed such films as ‘Taken’ would enjoy our film and is who we are aiming our produced piece at. We think due to the high amounts of tension and suspense in the film it would appeal more to the action thriller audience because while parts of it may slip into the horror genre with large amounts of suspense and bloody scenes, the plan for the film that we envisioned revolved around generic conventions of the action genre such as car chases, fight scenes and shoot-outs. This film would obviously not be suitable for people under the age of 15 but is something we believe teenagers of that age would enjoy in the same way they enjoyed films such as ‘Fast and furious’. While we do appreciate that other audiences may take an interest, and fully recognise that females enjoy action films as well as males, the trend is that more males watch action films than females as we discovered by reading summaries of dissertations of university students who looked at the viewing habits of males vs females, and as such we aim our product as them. By making it available using distribution techniques such as streaming sights we make it available to busy modern day men who may not have time to go to the cinema to watch a film for two hours.