AS Level Media Foundation Production Evaluation Q4

Q4 Who would be your audience for your media product?

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), originally British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, funded by the film industry and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films within the United Kingdom. It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the video recordings acts 2010

I believe that ‘father of sin’ should be awarded a 12 because it involves most of the below:

‘Home media only since 2002. Suitable only for persons aged 12 years and over, not to be supplied to anyone below that age. It is illegal to knowingly rent or sell a 12-rated VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, UMD or game to anyone under the age of 12. 12A-rated films are usually given a 12 certificate for the VHS/DVD version unless extra material has been added that requires a higher rating. The content guidelines are identical to those used for the 12A certificate.’

My target audience is from the age of 12-26 I feel anyone can watch it but we are aiming it mainly towards that age, as this is the majority of the people that we quizzed. Our target audience would be students so they are still at school and most of their time is spent at school. Most of the people that will watch our film would have an evening or weekend job and pay for it with the money that they earn from this job. The Ethnic background could be very different as it could be aimed for Christians even though it is very controversial but others such as agnostics may watch it because it is a good thriller film. The audience should expect to see a religious thriller when they go to watch it and a religious thriller is exactly what we have delivered. This is because there wasn’t that many about and we thought it would be a brilliant unique idea that hasn’t been done before. This was most of the motivation and also difficulty. The audience also wants a unique new film rather than a follow on film. The audience want to see a new story that they haven’t seen before this was a bold move as most films are based on books but we chose not to do this because we wanted it to just turn up in the cinema.

The top rated sub-genre is psychological thriller. We have done our thriller with this in mind having a rather scary priest who is creepy and he plays with peoples heads as will be seen in the opening.

The best thing people liked about a thriller is suspended we are using suspense in the way that the audience know the priest is there but the boy doesn't this makes the audience more tense we believe.

The largest chosen director was Steven Spielberg we couldn't really link this to our price because we are directing it ourselves.

Surprising twists came in at number one on what appeals to our target audience and we don't really have this but it could unfold in the later part of the film, which we aren't focusing on.

Most people think props costume and make up are important we have taken this on bored and made our main focus to be on props and costume in our opening.

Our questionnaire says that the plot is the most important element of a thriller film so this is the reason we spent a lot of time writing the plot out and matching it to the shot list.

Music is the main thing that builds suspense cording to our target audience this is why we aim to use it as affectively as we can we have looked into ideas of why should be cool and have a good idea in our heads.

In our 2mins of the film we do have the action unfolding quite quickly because this is what our audience want.

It is set in the present because that is what the audience want it is also better because it makes it closer to home for the viewer.

In our piece we have as little plot reviled as we can we want the audience to question what this man is doing and why.

we are trying to use the information that we got wisely by planning what we were going to make after the questionnaire results had been counted. Mainly, we tried to follow what the majority said apart from not many people were for a religious thriller so we took it to try and change peoples minds on this so that people didn’t just think that a religious thriller was just teaching people about say Christianity. We wanted to change that by making it controversial thriller. The questionnaire results made us choose a different path and helped to guide us in the direction in the way that the audience want.