Evaluation - Who would be the audience for your media product?

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. Also we are choosing to target a much smaller audience that perhaps normal horror films would, with the sub-genre we have focused on it often can make the plot line very deep and often difficult to follow, and so people who are interested in this genre are not people who wish to be able to watch a film and just be able to relax and watch it. They will be watching every single detail in the film, looking and paying attention to what is going on in every scene to try and find some connection between the plot line and the characters. This means that the audience must be highly interested in this type of genre and extremely eager to be kept on their seat and shrouded in the mystery of the film and the uncertainty that it carries with it.