Sunday 6 March 2016
Evaluation - Who would be the audience for your media product?
The main target audience for the thriller genre of films is usually 15-50 year olds I found after researching into audience statistics. The average age rating for thriller films is a 15 certificate so the target age would not be under this, also after the age of 50 it is know that suspenseful, tense films will not appeal to the majority of elderly people. This has therefore given me an idea of what age range my thriller should be marketed at.
In terms of gender it is known that both males and females watch thriller films and there is not really an imbalance when it comes to one gender enjoying the genre more than the other. However males usually enjoy the action, suspense or horror side of films as they enjoy the adrenaline rush, and even though females are known to like this too, they are also known to prefer the enigma side of the thriller and the mysteries a thriller plot can present.
Therefore my audience for my thriller would most likely be both male and female and in the age range of 15-49 year olds.
These are the statistics I found when researching online however Guy and I then proceeded to Hand out a questionnaire to the public to do our own personal research and figure out what we could. We asked who we could about wether they watch thriller films and the results came out as 8 for 16-21 year olds, 1 for 22-30 year olds and 2 for 31-49 year olds, These results allowed us to decipher that the 16-21 year olds are the most frequent watchers and most popular audience of thriller genre films.
www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/18
www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15 These are websites that say about what to expect when watching a 15 or 18 rated film
In terms of gender it is known that both males and females watch thriller films and there is not really an imbalance when it comes to one gender enjoying the genre more than the other. However males usually enjoy the action, suspense or horror side of films as they enjoy the adrenaline rush, and even though females are known to like this too, they are also known to prefer the enigma side of the thriller and the mysteries a thriller plot can present.
Therefore my audience for my thriller would most likely be both male and female and in the age range of 15-49 year olds.
These are the statistics I found when researching online however Guy and I then proceeded to Hand out a questionnaire to the public to do our own personal research and figure out what we could. We asked who we could about wether they watch thriller films and the results came out as 8 for 16-21 year olds, 1 for 22-30 year olds and 2 for 31-49 year olds, These results allowed us to decipher that the 16-21 year olds are the most frequent watchers and most popular audience of thriller genre films.
www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/18
www.bbfc.co.uk/what-classification/15 These are websites that say about what to expect when watching a 15 or 18 rated film
Evaluation -In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The thriller we created adhered to many conventions of a thriller movie and in turn also opening sequences of movies in general, however also challenging a few during construction.
The first convention utilised in the thriller film would be the mystery presented and the introduction of a location/setting to the audience. The camera is laced so that it is a wide shot of much of the surroundings beyond the rooftop, with a character being in the shot but not being able to be identified. Both of these are great examples of conventions, with the mystery character being commonly used in thriller movies to set up a narrative enigma, using this within my thriller I thought would really add to the effect it had as a thriller and the professionalism it carried with it. Also the setting up shot of the setting is used lots as a convention of an opening sequence meaning utilising it was a good choice to make the thriller seem as real a media product as possible. Both of us feel that the shot showing the skyline of the city is similar to david fincher's skyline shot in his thriller film although maybe not as professional. The Character standing at the edge of the roof looking over the city is also akin to the opening of a film like Batman or Spiderman.
One convention we challenged would have been that in most thriller films you usually get to see the crime or murder committed, granted this is not the case in all thrillers but it happens enough the majority of the time that it has become convention. Guy and I however did not want this as we really wanted to push the idea of a narrative enigma being present throughout the entirety of the piece and did not want the viewers to realise or understand the ultimate fate of the characters they were witnessing on screen until much later on in the movie. We felt something happening to the characters with the first three minutes of the film defeated the purpose of the thriller genre entirely and instead kept the suspense and tension to subsequently keep viewer guessing. You can see the hooded man follow the man in the suit, but what happens next would not be revealed until much later and that generates masses of suspense and atmosphere in the film adding heavily to the verisimilitude.
The first convention utilised in the thriller film would be the mystery presented and the introduction of a location/setting to the audience. The camera is laced so that it is a wide shot of much of the surroundings beyond the rooftop, with a character being in the shot but not being able to be identified. Both of these are great examples of conventions, with the mystery character being commonly used in thriller movies to set up a narrative enigma, using this within my thriller I thought would really add to the effect it had as a thriller and the professionalism it carried with it. Also the setting up shot of the setting is used lots as a convention of an opening sequence meaning utilising it was a good choice to make the thriller seem as real a media product as possible. Both of us feel that the shot showing the skyline of the city is similar to david fincher's skyline shot in his thriller film although maybe not as professional. The Character standing at the edge of the roof looking over the city is also akin to the opening of a film like Batman or Spiderman.
One convention we challenged would have been that in most thriller films you usually get to see the crime or murder committed, granted this is not the case in all thrillers but it happens enough the majority of the time that it has become convention. Guy and I however did not want this as we really wanted to push the idea of a narrative enigma being present throughout the entirety of the piece and did not want the viewers to realise or understand the ultimate fate of the characters they were witnessing on screen until much later on in the movie. We felt something happening to the characters with the first three minutes of the film defeated the purpose of the thriller genre entirely and instead kept the suspense and tension to subsequently keep viewer guessing. You can see the hooded man follow the man in the suit, but what happens next would not be revealed until much later and that generates masses of suspense and atmosphere in the film adding heavily to the verisimilitude.
Evaluation -- How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In the thriller opening sequence using male characters instead of females was a conscious choice. After researching we did find that 90% of murders between 1976 and 2005 were committed by men, therefore leading us to think that using a woman would not be accurate enough, furthermore we also did not want to stray too far from stereotypes as we feel those are the best things to keep to if we want to use accurate conventions of a thriller film, so this is our social group represented in the opening sequence. However on the other hand we did want to challenge the typical "hooded stalker" goes after the female by replacing the female with a male character instead.
Tuesday 1 March 2016
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