Q4.Who would be the audience

For your media product?

By Tamsin Stacey

Our desired audience:Our target audience would be:• Aged 18 and over- the effect of this is that it restricts our potential

audience by not allowing younger viewers to see the product• Have a general knowledge or interest in different religions and faith

(they don’t have to believe in any specific religion or deity)• May have media interests including thrillers involving multiple

homicides with various underlying reasons and plot twists• Media usage would probably involve watching their desired products

online more in comparison to traditional methods e.g a TV

Examples in the film industry:1. Se7en• This is due to the specific sub-genre and overall theme to our

piece which is based upon the idea of corruption within religion. Furthermore the high age rating of our film because it contains suggested violence resulting in death. Therefore it is unsuitable for any potential younger viewers as they may also not be able to understand certain concepts of the piece.

2. Exorcist• When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her

mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. This an example of the types of characters which is included in our own thriller product- the use of a priest.

3. Calvary- 2014• After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest

must battle the dark forces closing in around him

Why we selected our targetAudience

We selected our target audience carefully after completing various research methods including: a questionnaire handed out to potential viewers before creating our product, this allow us to gain information and opinions about what viewers want to see from a thriller product.

Research into our potentialTarget audience

One of the research methods involved gaining information pre-production and putting them on our blogs on what films have certain age ratings and what would be included in that particular film for it to reach a certain age rating.

Slideshare:This website was used to create a presentation on age ratings in UK and what things that may be put in a product for it to be categorised into an age grouping- http:

//www.slideshare.net/ohitstamsin/audience-research-29383933

Here are examples of the slides that can be found on the link provided.

Analysis of opening sequences of pre-existing thrillers:

Before even planning our thriller we analysed thrillers that already existed to gain an idea of the kind of shots used/ lighting and how they could attract an audience. Also to gain an idea of what we could use for inspiration for our own thriller product.