Who would be the Who would be the audience for your audience for your media product?media product?

Who would be the Who would be the audience for your audience for your media product?media product?How did you attract your How did you attract your

audience?audience?

Evaluation Q 4&5

My audienceI decided that the audience for my

film would be teenagers as the main character, Maria, is a teenager & is taking her GCSE's.

In my audience research I found that people enjoy a film more when they can relate to it, therefore I decided that the best audience would be 13-19.

Attracting my audienceTo make sure that I attracted the

right audience I dispatched a questionnaire in the pre production stage to allow audience participation and help me find out just how popular my film would be.

Audience ResearchI asked:

“What makes you relate to a film?”The answers were similar saying:

“I relate to a film when the characters & the plot are believable”or“When I can relate to a character”

Continued…What issues would you like to see in a social

realism film?

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Drug/alcohol

abuse

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violence

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health

Redundancy

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Continued… I asked:

“What do you think of when you hear the words ‘mental health’?”

Most people wrote:“Crazy people”,“Misunderstood/psychological problems”,“Disability”,“Illness”or“Depression”

Continued…Do you think that mental health

problems are common?

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After I gathered the information, I incorporated it into my film

introduction.

Incorporating My Research

To make my audience relate to my film, I made my main character, Maria, 16 which is in the middle of my audiences age range.

I also decided to put Maria in a situation that is familiar to my audience, so I had my intro when she is doing here GCSE’s.

Continued…I already had the idea of my issue

being mental health, but my research confirmed that it was a good idea.

Continued…My research showed that people

don’t really understand mental health problems.

Therefore I decided to have the film from Maria’s point of view so that the viewers can learn along with her.

Continued…I found that the majority of the people I

asked think that mental health problems are common, but some people don’t. This means that mental health problems are still misunderstood.

So I chose to have more than one person suffering from mental health problems to show that they are common.