Jonah - Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

• I tried to make the thriller opening appeal to the older audience of about 18-35 as it was going to progress into a psychological thriller, and statistics show that older audiences are more likely to watch psychological thrillers such as Silence of the lambs. The chart shows what age groups, and gender, ranked the film but this chart also gives a clue to who watched the film. The age group that watched the film the most is the 18-29 which is in the brackets of my target audience meaning that targeting that age group would be the best to target.
• The chart also shows that male audiences completely dominate in the number of votes which suggests a huge majority that watched this film where male, although this chart of not reliable because it comes from a film database website which may be dominated by males.
• Targeting the male audience between the ages of 18-35 as statistics show that they make up the majority of who watched Silence of the lambs which is the same target audience i want to target.
• Being a small UK film the majority of the audience will be from the UK and not overseas, which is not a bad thing considering British thrillers have not been a huge success overseas.  
• I have got some feedback from Youtube and comments from friends and family. The comments from Youtube are: 

"Nice work guys! Keep making more films and i'll keeping watching them :)" - Aged 20

"A good opening! I love the soundtrack, it really adds to it." - Aged 19

And comments from friend and family

"I love the soundtrack, it really adds to it." - Aged 34

"Its shot really well, good work!" - Aged 28

• From the comments above they are all aged within the brackets i wanted to target, they are positive feedback, so from this i suggest that audiences from the ages 18-35 will be attracted to my thriller. other Thrillers my target audience may be interested might be:

V for Vendetta - A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/)

Taken - A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who was kidnapped on a trip to Paris to be sold into prostitution.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/)


American Psycho - A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/)


The Usual Suspects - A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/)