Welcome to my blog on this blog you will find work that i have done throughout the year and group work of three slasher film openings with, Ben Brearley & Declan Williams.
On this blog you will also see the research planning and production aspects of the film of which we are producing.
The working title for our slasher is Black Nightmare.


Friday, 3 May 2013

Evaluation Q4 Target Audience

 

As a group our aim was to target our film at a audience of 15 - 24 and as our additional audience 24 -34. We chose to make this our target audience due to the fact of the genre of our movie been a slasher.

Age Restrictions

Below are the recommended age rating certificates that have been given by the British Board of Film Classification ( bbfc )  are seen at the beginning of every movie :


                            Suitable for all audiences





                            Parental Guidance 
 

                   
                    Cinema release suitable for 12 years and older
                  




         
                     Suitable for 15 years and over


             
        
   
                   Suitable for adults only






                    Adult works for licenced premises only 




BBFC places these recommendations to helps parents, carers and other viewers make informed choices about what they watch. It is displayed under the title and running time for each film in every cinema.

The bffc has two key guidelines in which they apply, these are :
  • First, films and videos should be allowed to reach the widest audience appropriate for their theme and treatment.
  • Second, adults should be free to choose what they see, provided it remains within the law and is not potentially harmful.

 

Who our film wouldn't apply too?

Our film is a slasher movie which in general are aimed at a target audience of 15 - 21 year olds, however sometimes they can have a secondary audience which is aimed at people aged 24 - 34. The genre of the movie however impacts the audience that will view the movie. As our movie is a slasher the older audiences will not enjoy the gore and the thrill that a slasher movie provides, neither would those who are under the age of 15. Therefore our movie if it was to be viewed by the BBFC would likely to be banded under 15+  this is because it portrays sexual activity and violence which under the BBFC guidelines places the movie at a 15+.

Here are two example slasher movies with age restrictions given by the BBFC


Texas Chainsaw Massacre  ( Marcus Nispel, 2003 )                                                 

                                                             

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a slasher genre which is about a group of friends passing through are stalked and hunted down by a deformed killer with a chainsaw in order to sustain his poor family who can only afford to eat what they kill.
 
This film includes scenes of violence, alcohol and drug taking, profanity and scenes of sexual activity/ nudity. This would place this movie at a age rating of 18+.
 
 
 
 
Halloween ( John Carpenter, 1978 )
 


Halloween is another classic slasher film which is about a psychotic murderer institutionalised since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

The film includes scenes of sexual activity, violence and gore, profanity and also scenes of drug taking and excessive use of alcohol drinking. This film would place this movie with a age rating of 18+.





Audience feedback


We asked a group of teenagers, ages 16-17, to watch our rough cut and give feedback as it'd be useful to know what they think because they're in range of our target audience ( 15-25 ), then from this feedback we can see what worked and what didn't, which we can then use if we were to remake improvements to our film.

Our audience thought that our film was very good and was a suitable for the age range we had targeted our movie at. They said throughout the movie the scenes of violence where the killer is swinging the meat cleaver at the meat was very violent and that the use of intestines and left over meat which we used as our props gave the movie a more gory effect and made it scarier. They also commented on the choice of camera angles and editing used which helped the movie a lot better as the fast paced editing helped build suspense through out the film and the cross cutting was used very well.

Overall they said that our movie was relatively good and they thought that it was suitable for the correct target audience that we had decided to aim it at been 15 - 24. They also said that if it was aimed at audience any older or younger they didn't think that it would be appealing to there age range as it was to gory for younger audiences.






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