Evaluation: Question 4

4) Who would be the audience for your media product?
Through our audience questionaires we could summarise specifically who our target audience will be.

Specifically the majority of our target audience is male.

Around the ages of 16-29, however there is a small minority at the ages of 21-25.

As a group we collected evidence from our questionnaires and we came up with an ideal audience member. This was beneficial, as we knew what our audience wanted from our film. It was a useful tool for us as a group as their is specific aspects in which our audience members want to see within our film and this directly told us what they want to see. Our communication then to our audience member would then be through the film, presenting them aspects in which they would like to visually see.

Through this detailed research we were able to present ideal aspects through our two minute opening. As a group we did this through character in particular.

We specifically used a male character and a female character, which are conveyed to be in a relationship; this gives near enough each member of the audience to relate to a certain character whether it’s the male or female. 

Our movie also hints that the killer is a male from the beginning this is shown through special effects (heavy breathing sounds) and specific aspects of Mise en scene such as gloves. The setting/location of our film, is set in a low populated area where a secluded house is shown.

This was the most popular option in which target audience members made known what they expect to see in our specific Slasher film.

Furthermore, at the beginning of our movie, we have cuts which introduce the female and a shrine, in which foreshadows a bad event and something psychopathic-ally weird about the situation. Non- diegetic sound was used directly as it was suggested by our audience members to build suspense and initially tell the story.

Through our audience questionnaire, we directly used information from our audience in order for our movie to appeal to them. 

Additionally we also used our audience feedback in order to improve our two minute opening of our film.

Within our movie, the music changing from diegetic to non- diegetic was untidy, the transition was not clear, and overall it didn't keep the continuity and verisimilitude throughout our media product, so we changed it and tidied it up in order to make the transition tidier and clearer to understand.