Friday 3 May 2013

Main post 12.4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

From looking at recent box office statistics on the comedy genre, I have analysed what the top films age rating is. I have found out that the majority of the films here are of a PG or a U rating, meaning that they are mainly targeted and suitable for people either 12 or below, or even over 12 years of age.

From this, I can conclude that the audience for this media product would be for children around the 12 years of age mark, however I believe this could be stretched to older teengaers because when we gave out the questionnaires to our target audience, they were either 16 or above, and they claimed that would go and watch it.



   

An example from our target audience

Name: Laura-Anne Connor

Age: 17

Hobbies: In her space time, Laura-Anne loves to spend time with her friends and participate in social activities. From a young age, she has always been interested in performing arts and singing, she does this as a hobby on side of going to college. She enjoys learning about health and social care at college and is eager to do this in later life.

In regards to watching films, she only rarely goes to the cinema about once a month, and she says this is due to how expensive it has become to watch them. If she does not go to the cinema, she will generally watch films on the Sky T.V or on the internet, she does not prefer this way though because using the internet makes the film look of a poor quality. Her favourite genre of film is either comedy or Action. She enjoys films such as 'Spiderman' and 'Ted' and even films like 'Mean girls' which is a social comedy about school life, which can be linked to our opening sequence.

When asking Laura-Anne who influenced her watching such films like 'Star Trek', she claimed that when she was growing up her Dad was a sort of a 'nerd' and was interested in spaceships and aliens. These type of action or adventure films were present throughout her life, if her Dad watched them, so would she. This is why she enjoys watching these types of films even at the age of 17.




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