The target audience for 'Gone' is both men and women aged 15-45.
Our film genre falls into thriller/horror and is based around the idea of children going missing because of a sinister stimulus. A common theme in modern horrors is the idea of children going missing as this is one of the main things parents fear in society. Therefore we chose to base our horror on this as most adults can relate to this narrative. Below are modern examples of posters with missing children on them.
From looking at results about who watch horror films such as Insidious and The Woman in Black (males and females between the ages 15 and 40) I can conclude that our film will engage a wide audience as nearly all groups of people like watching horrors.
Another reason why people will watch our film is because horrors give a buzz to the audience in the form of a jump scare. Many people are fond of this and seek this feeling of true fear and creepiness. Also, missing people is a big problem that we have in modern society because it's the notion of not knowing where someone is or what could have happened to them.
The disjointed narrative structure of our horror film appeals to the audience as it offers an alternative to stereo typically horror plots. This is shown in our opening sequence in the form of a flash back/forward.
The screenshot above shows the lack of events which are taken place in chronological order which is usually what is shown in a horror movie. This is because before we got to 1:52 we are shown a flash forward of what happens in the film. This would attract the audience to watch our film as this would show a new angle of showing a horror film.
This screenshot represents the creepiness of our film. The fact that the character in the image is unidentifiable as you cannot see their face or any other features leaves lots of enigma which people would want to find out more about.
Examples of our audience from feedback
As a section of question 5 I wanted to talk about the feedback that we received about our film 'Gone'. As a result of this, I decided to create a survey monkey and let people watch our opening sequence and then answer questions which we wanted to find out the answers to.
The results of the questions can be shown in the pie charts below and I deem these not only to be good feedback, but another thing that I can learn from.
The main ages of the respondents were 17/18.
Was the genre easy to identify? 80% of respondents said yes.
A vast majority of people thought that it was easy to identify our film genre which was what we were aiming for so we have achieved this for ourselves.
Did the films show good conventions for the genre? 70% of respondents said yes.
Nearly three-quarters of respondents thought our film used good conventions. This is what makes a good horror film so I'm glad we have fulfilled what we have set out to do.
Would you watch the full-length feature film? 60% of respondents said yes.
Just over half of people said that they would watch our full-length feature film but this is understandable as horror films are not for everyone.
Did you get confused at any point? 60% of respondents said yes.
Just over half of people also said that they were confused at some point when watching our opening sequence but this is also understandable because most films are confusing at the start.
