Essay Question 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

From watching other horror films I was trying to decide what rating I wanted to give my sequence. I then chose to give my sequence a rating of 15 to 18 because it is filled with violence, abuse and twisted motives throughout and I didn’t want the film to have a lower rating and be regarded as less serious.

My sequence focuses on a young teenage girl being stalked, watching her through point of views indicates there is going to be a killing with lots of violence, blood involved making my film very harsh giving it such a high rating of 18. But in the context, I believe a huge numbers of target audience would be teenagers of 15 years because it is near their age group as the girl is about 17 years old. Therefore engaging younger generation of the audience of 15 years.

From gaining feedback from a critique lesson with my class we looked at each other’s film and then gave advice to one another. From a class of around 25 students ageing around 16 to 17, I was told my film was a film they would go to see as the character of the girl was around their age group, especially the boys because they like lots of violence and was intrigued to find out what happens to the girl. Overall I believe my sequence is very much like Halloween as it does not give too much away and will have violence and lots of blood in it.