Evaluation: Question 4

Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience which we are most looking to appeal to, would be young adults, potentially those interested in social equality issues. This is because the characters also are young, and the denial of gender roles, and sexist thriller archetypes may be of interest to that particular demographic.
Characters which people can relate to are most appealing, and our character is hopefully very relatable, and acts as a voice for the unspoken, bringing further awareness of domestic violence (even if the retaliation is a little unrealistic, and serves only as). Demographics suggest that 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence in their lifetimes. Although it’s more common for women, 1 in 6 men experience domestic violence, so the film hopefully will resonate with them also.
Both of the characters in the film are White-British, so unfortunately there’s nothing much to say about ethnicity.
Sexuality isn’t much of an issue in our film, as it mainly centres around violence, but considering how women are much more likely than men to experience sexual violence in their lifetimes, the film may appeal to them.
The costume and part of the soundtrack of the film are both based on goth/punk/hardcore/metal subcultures - since punk is such an old subculture, it may bring in a larger range of viewers - old punks, and new punks alike. Metalcore and related genres are something which emerged in the 1990s, so may also appeal to the younger audiences.
The other piece of music is piano based. Piano is a timeless instrument, with no particular age group which it could appeal to - often held as one’s starting instrument, it could help draw attention of viewers from ages 0 to 200.
The film with the largest amount of similarities to ours would be ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ - it is a rape revenge thriller, the protagonist is a goth and female.