Final Project - Target Audience

Generally the audience of our piece will be male, they will be between 18-26 years old. This makes it so that they can watch a horror film and be frightened by it but with their attitude towards life it will not terrify them into never wanting to see it again. The type of film they will have seen and enjoyed would be films like Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Saw, Omen and Paranormal Activity. All of these films have definite elements of horror but jointly they do not show a over exaggerated amount of blood or gore. These film tend to focus of frightening the viewer in a very different way, they play on human fear utilising elements of the human psyche that frighten people or that have been repressed or hidden. The audience enjoys a certain amount of mystery and the idea of being kept in the unknown, while watching a film they love to kept at the end of their seat and enjoy the feeling of being kept in the dark and waiting for the worst to happen. The audience will predominantly be male with the horror genre being stereotypically aimed at more of a male audience, there will have be a nique in the female market whereby for women who do enjoy the horror genre.