Main Task Evaluation - Question 4

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

In our group we believe that our main task has a target audience for women. We all agreed with this theory because Romantic films are loved by women, and as women ourselves we felt that this was correct. Whilst adding comedy into it, it brings comedy fans and mixes them with the romantic fans, causing two types of target audience to come together as one. With the comedy element it may even bring men to watch the film, as laughter is for everyone of all ages. Also, it could bring couples to the cinemas as it is a romantic film mixed with a comedy, so it would attract both genders to see the film. We also believe that it is at an age range of teenagers to adults. We thought this because teenage girls like RomCom's as much as adult women, so the variety of ages would create a larger audience. With the help of a questionnaire we gave to people who viewed our opening of the film we created we found out that most of them thought it should be rated a 15. We also agreed with this because in the film their could be scenes of sex and bad language, so the rating is appropriate.

When we researched the RomComs, we discovered that most of the films were either a 12 or a 15. This was because of the same reasons we wanted to set our film at that target audience. There were either sexual scenes shown in the films or inappropriate language that may not be suitable fo anyone younger than 12. For example, Love Actually had scenes involving nudity and included bad language, therefore the rating is a 15. We used this information to help us with our film. We discovered that most films included sexual viewings and bad language so we wanted to show a bit of that in our film to make the rating of our film similar to the films we researched. We did this successfully in our suductive scene. Obviously we couldn't show nudity in our film or sexual intercourse, but we showed a slight bit of stripping actuion when Paolo started to under his top. This was meant to show the audience that that's what would of happened if the day dream continued. It would of also meant that maybe that would actually happen during the film later on. This made our film have a rating of 15, which we were pleased with as other RomComs were similar.