EVALUATION QUESTION: 4

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

Our media product was an opening thriller that told the story of a woman who is unable to conceive and becomes obsessed with having children. Because of this, she ends up kidnapping a child and in the opening we see her coming home where we eventually see the child and we know something is not right.

Since our film explores the idea of some people having mental illnesses that lead them to doing things like kidnapping children, we thought that our opening falls well into the psychological thriller sub-genre.

Through research I found out that psychological thriller's target audiences are often 18+ due-to them including quite a lot of violence as well as heavy psychological issues that could be disturbing for people under that age.

 For our thriller opening, we decided to make the target audience people from about 18-30 as that is the age range for people that would usually watch that genre. We also thought that it would catch women over 30's attention as one of the main characters in the story is a thirty year old woman.

FEEDBACK FROM SET 7 AS MEDIA:

This was some of the feedback that we got from our class. Both the students and Marisa gave us valuable feedback which helped us to see that we had chosen an appropriate target audience to aim our opening thriller at. 

This is a screenshot of someone talking about our opening on Facebook. We found it very interesting as well as motivating to see this and it helped us understand that we had once again chosen our target audience well. As the film revolves around females,we thought that it was good to see a girl commenting on how much she enjoyed the opening.