Eval Q4. Audience.

Who would be the audience of your media 

product?

Black Nightmare is targeted at the teen audience, 15- 24 years, with a BBFC rating of 15 because this is mainly what the slasher genre is aimed at. A good example of this is Friday The 13th ( Sean S. Cunningham, 1980) where the teen audience would find it easier to relate to the characters as they're also mainly of the teen age in this film, and with our film Black Nightmare the casting are also of the teen age so our audience can relate to it as with Friday The 13th.

A good example for our film to relate to is Scream 4 ( Wes Craven, 2011 ) as it also has a BBFC rating of 15 and has characters of the teen age just like our film Black Nightmare. Also the protagonists in this film are the teenagers which is like in our film where the teenagers are the protagonists also , and the antagonist being the killer just like in our Black Nightmare film. This film also contains high levels of violence involving a lot of blood which is what the slasher genre audience expecting with this genre and with Black Nightmare we've tried to include these with violent scenes and lots of blood.

Also we've used both genders here so that our audience isn't just limited with the male gaze that Laura Mulvey argues most media content has, where it's based round the Male's perspective for example having female characters wearing revealing clothing for it to be more appealing to the male audience. Instead we show focus on both the male and female character so we provide the female and male gaze theory which would hopefully appeal to both our female and male audiences.

The final girl, scream queen and jock are all aged from 17-18 we've chosen to use actors of this age so that our target audience can relate to the characters more, rather than having the actors of an older age where our target audience won't be able to relate. Then with our killer we wanted to have him recognised to be older than the teenagers and for our audiences to see that he was actually middle aged man so then this would contribute to appealing to our secondary audiences which is from 24-34.

We also got instant feedback from our target audiences from Youtube and from in person when we invited groups of our target audience in to watch our rough cuts and then our final cut, and from this we learnt what improvements had to me made to make the film more appealing to our audiences, things such as they wanted more gore scenes so we needed to add more things such as blood in our meat chopping scene.