Evaluation question 4) Who would be the audience for your project?

From the results of my survey using surveymonkey.com, after posting the survey on my facebook account

This is the link on my facebook account that i have asked colleague's to complete

our target audience are 16-19 year old, the majority being female, which is why we tried to incorporate the issue of gender into the film, through women becoming more powerful. Although the film will particularly appeal to men as its an action thriller which traditionally appeal to men. On reflection our film will appeal more to men then women although as the majority of people, according to our research, go with friends, which in theory will include women.

Although when we carried some audience feedback, the viewers thought that the film would appeal more to men rather than women which didn't agree with our previous results. This indicates to us that to appeal to women more changes will have to be made in the thriller, although the audience believed that the lack of women viewers would easily be countered by a surge of a male audience.

As the majority of people according to my research watch thrillers with their friends so we will not try and appeal to a 'family' audience. After realising this we knew we could use weapons in our film as we are not aiming for a family audience. We know that our audience will want to watch our thriller as we have included the main element of a thriller our audience want, suspense. The overwhelming response to what makes people want to watch thrillers and what they believe a thriller should be build on is SUSPENSE. We attempted to do this through the use of short quick sequences To create tension. We constantly flipped being the present time and the past to create a bit of suspense for the audience to make them want to know how one affects the other, and how the two are related. The title sequence we created also ads to the suspense as it follows a countdown theme, as if something dramatic was about to happen , but never really does.

Here is a image i created using wordle which includes the key words from the results of my research, which all in one way or another can be related to our film.