Evaluation Task 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

We wanted to find the best suited audience to view our thriller we decided to interview different people to determined what type of age group and gender would  most likely watch our thriller. We came up with six questions that we could ask to our interviewees we wanted to make sure we interviewed a good range of different people and ages so that we could collect the best and most accurate data. 

Having filmed all our interviews, I then watched all of them through making a table like chart so it is easier to compare results. Having collected the data and laid it out in a chart I then started comparing results. Our results suggest that apart from one women we interviewed who said her favorite genre was horror the other woman’s favorite genre of film was either comedy or Romance and no one said action or thriller. 

Having looked at this I started asking myself if woman would actually sit down and watch our thriller however I was surprised by the results as even though thrillers were not these females top choice our results show that one female between 21-39 actually said “The grimmer the better”. One male said his favorite  genre was comedy but the rest said they liked action or dramas. I would therefore think the more likely audience for our thriller would probably be male although our thriller is suspenseful so would appeal to some females and has lots of action. I found that the younger boys between 15-20 didn’t actually find thrillers as interesting as the older men and actually prefer drama and comedy’s. 

Finally I decided to create a “fake” Facebook profile of someone whom from my results seems to fit the ideal age and gender for wanting to watch my thriller. I created a male called William Green and made a status that he would have written. I discussed the thriller inception which was mentioned by males in my interviews as one of their favorite thrillers. From there I put a picture of the film and discussed how much ‘William’ loved the film and Leonardo DiCaprio acting. I mentioned the acting as I found that when I asked people what makes a good thriller a lot of them mentioned how important the acting was to them. I made his age 41 as the males who were most interested in thrillers and action were the males over 40. I chose a photo of a man who could be of this age of the internet and I made it appear as realistic as possible by showing he is from Manchester and studied at Manchester university  but now lives in London where he is self-employed. I do believe this age group and gender are the best target audience to view our thriller from the research I did.