Who would be the audience for your media product?

When we got a our brief we put out a questionnaire exploring the different things audiences would like:

The age ranges that we handed the questionnaire out to are mostly people our age, 14-17 year olds. This made it easier to empathise with our audience as they were the same age as us and liked the same things we did, which reflected in the following questions. It did have a limitation though as it is a limited audience and if we produced a movie it would be insuffiecent research as it doesn't explore many other audiences. 

Typical audience member- We expect people who like psychological thrillers to come watch our thriller. It may mostly be a female audience as it is unusual for a woman to be portrayed as a protagonist so women could be more attracted to the lead role being a stronger woman and not the typical vulnerable woman. We want people who are more attracted to an unconventional thriller to see " Snake Eyes" as it does have elements of unconventional thriller in it.

We also looked at the BBFC website to see the age boundaries as to what to include in our thriller. We chose to go for the age group 15 and over as it has all the criteria for a 15 and we don’t want the film to be restricted to a certain age group so a wider range of people are able to view our thriller.

On the BBFC website it says that in a 15 there can be; 

No discriminatory language- As the film can be viewewd by teenagers it may promote racism as teenagers are easily influenced.

Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse.

Strong threat and menace are permitted unless sadistic or sexualised

Suicides should not be dwelled on as for copying purposes and easily accessible items should not be glamourized

No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds

Violence can be strong as long as it is not sexual or sadistic

These are the criteria which can and cannot feature in thrillers for 15.

 We tried to keep withnin these limitations as we would like to distribute to as wide an audience as possible,  and most thrillers keep within these limitations of a 15 so they can distribute to as wide an audience as possible.

Even though this isn’t what we planned for our thriller opening, we needed to make sure that we were within the limits so we could put our thriller as a 15. The only part that we thought we would have a problem was the discriminatory language as our thriller is partly religious, so taking that into account we changed our plans of how the rest of the thriller would lead on.