Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is Thomas Brown. He is 16 years and 3 months old, and he lives in the suburbs of Nottingham.
He dresses casually, usually donning jeans and a printed t-shirt with trainers. He enjoys hanging out with his friends, playing video games, going to the cinema and listening to music.
He likes to watch films such as Harry Potter, TRON, Shutter Island, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Inception, Happy Gilmore, The Big Lebowski, Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, and he will usually go to see these at the cinema before buying them on DVD to watch with his friends.
He watches television programmes such as Family Guy, The Simpsons, Friends, Top Gear, The Big Bang Theory and The Inbetweeners, so mainly comedy.

The music this boy listens to varies, but the main genres he enjoys are indie, rock, techno and dub-step. He doesn’t listen to popular music very often, as he feels that this type of music is overrated, the songs sound too similar and the lyrics are superficial.  

Thomas is a stereotypical boyish-boy, who enjoys male orientated programmes and music, and therefore he would most probably like the male orientated and “manly” genre of our film (horror, which we discovered is a genre favoured mostly by males from our questionnaire). However, he is also a little less mainstream, due to his choice of music, and consequently he would probably appreciate the unique quality of the location of this film (a school), which is not very conventional or usual of the horror genre. Also, due to his age, he attends school, which means that he would be able to relate strongly to this location, increasing his fear when watching and also making him anxious during future trips to school.