Question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our target audience are aged 16-30 and primarily men, we know this because of audience research we fulfilled earlier on in the course though questionnaires.Below is a 'fake' profile of our perfect target audience that would come to see our film.


Name: Ben Owen


Age: 22


Occupation: Student


Interests/Hobbies: Playing video games, watching films and TV, going out with friends (shopping, cinema, parties), swimming, football, going to the gym, listening to music.


Television: Ben would like a variety of genres in television. He would mainly like thrillers and horrors, but does enjoy comedy at times. He would like programmes that have depth, maybe a little controversial (racism, sex scenes, language, violence). He watches both English and American programmes. Some programmes he watches are: True Blood, The Walking Dead, Dexter, The Vampire Diaries, Law and Order, Top Gear, Hollyoaks, Mad Dogs, American Horror Story, Bones, The Closure, NCIS, The Only Way is Essex, Fringe, Sopranos and Spooks.


Films: Ben would like genres of film that relate to his television taste, meaning Horror and Thrillers. He would like high budget and low budget films, depending on whether the actual content is good. Some films he would like are: Se7en, Saw, Hostel, Daybreakers, Avatar, The Lord of the Rings, Twilight, 1408, Inception, Insidious, Shutter Island, Chronicle and Cloverfield.