Evaluation 4 Alex Barker

Who would be the audience for your media product?

When planning our opening the target audience for our media we believed was between the ages of around 15-25, mixed gender despite our hero being female, however our age licensing for the film is a '15' rated.

We decided the age rating to be this because majority of thriller films seemed to be license as a 15 rated film such as “The Woman In Black” and “Sixth Sense” which were both aimed at the male/female target audiences. Despite the fact that both these thrillers have a male protagonist we decided to go for a female target so that it would appeal for a female audience and to get audience interested even more as it has not been done often in thriller films. For our antagonist we went for a male role and chose the stereotypical colours of black and with the face covered as it leaves a mystery on who our antagonist is. We also felt that it would be needed to give our film a “15 age rating” because we thought it was an suitable rating that our target audience would fit comfortably into this category and the fact that there isn't enough violence or gore that would make it any more than a '15'. By having the protagonist who was age 18, this would also help interest our target audience as our character herself fits in between our target audience age range and also the view that the audience can relate to the events and thoughts and feelings of the character in a much more of an open opinion.

Last of all we tried to use the influence of popular suspenseful films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s films where they all follow the trend that the music plays a key role to those films. Many of them follow a related trend in standings of how it is filmed and how the plot works. In these types of films, there can be a lot of ideas to do with what is going on inside the characters heads. This can be linked to our footage when our character begins to suffer illusions shown by close ups of her face we are shown her illusions by the change of music and mixes shots of her and parts of the machine. This idea to me was influenced by the film “Vertigo” where their main character suffers from vertigo as when he looks down the camera shot of him is a close up showing his face and what he is going through. By doing close ups it shows our character’s feelings and emotions of how she is feeling, but in the perspective of her body doing actions. For example, when the character is walking up to the tree we see her in a mid-shot of her slow walking and herself acting weak showing the illusions are effecting her, indicating how condition she is having.