Task 4- who would be the audiance for your media product?

For our thriller “Elizabeth’s Diary” we decided to aim our film at the largest target audience as that would bring in the most profit. This group is males, aged in their late teens and early to mid twenties, they are the group that spend the most money on going to the cinema and buying /renting films; so we thought it would be a good idea to aim our film at them. Our film is aimed at very masculine orientated audience. The audience for our film are most likely still in education whether it be school, collage or university or at the start of a new job. So there outgoings will be less so there for having more disposable income and free time. Although typically horror films are aimed at just males we wanted to make the secondary audience females. This is another reason why our protagonist is female. As the female audience would be able to relate to her better. This is also because a lot of the time couples watch horror films together. Horror films are often linked to the emo and gothic scene.
This is because it is a gory/slasher genre, with a lot of killing, mind games and twisted story plot and ending. In some ways it will be similar to the horror/ thriller “saw” but with more of a story line to it. It will be aimed and advertised at all social classes but it is most likely to appeal the most to people of a “lower” social class, again due to the gore and violence involved. So it will be shown in bigger cinemas like Vue and Odeon and not cinemas smaller and more expensive cinemas like the everyman and the electric cinema.