Evaluation Questions

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for our media product would be those at/ over the age of 15, as it’s been rated 15. This is due to the fact that we wanted to be able to use conventional aspects of horror films, such as: strong violence or threat, potential strong language and mild blood and gore. This allowed us to be flexible with what we filmed and to develop popular traits used in past horror films, that we collected through our research. A 15 certificate also allows our chosen target audience of teenagers to view it, which we chose as we are teenage horror fanatics ourselves and thought we would know what they’d want to see as an age group.

How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted/ addressed our target audience by getting them involved in the planning and making of our media product. This included creating a questionnaire for them to answer, so they had an input in things like the genre, storyline and the title of our film. The survey intrigued our audience and friendship group (of 16+) and led them to take an interest in the physical making of our product. As a result of this, a few of them actually volunteered to be a part of the making and became the characters within our film. This then broadened our audience as the friends and families of our friends wanted to see the final outcome of our media product. So this was possible, we put our final product on various forms of social media (i.e. Facebook, WordPress, Twitter and YouTube) and got said friends to share it round, again, widening our audience.

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this task?

I’ve learned that using appropriate cameras, lighting and editing tools are all crucial to ensure the quality of our media product is of a high standard. I’ve also learned that cameras and laptops may not always be as reliable as needed when ensuring our work was stored and saved properly, that technology can be unpredictable as it may be unresponsive or slow when working on our media product and that battery life goes rather quickly. I know this from the amount of work we lost along the way due to malfunctioning technology.

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BBFC – ‘15’ symbol

What does it stand for?

No one under the age of 15 is allowed to see a rated-15 film at the cinema or buy/rent a rated-15 video. (Not suitable for children under 15 years of age.)

What might I see in a rated-15 film or video?

Any of the following:

• strong violence
• frequent strong language (e.g. ‘f***’).
• portrayals of sexual activity
• strong verbal references to sex
• sexual nudity
• brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
• discriminatory language or behavior
• drug taking

-At 15 there can be strong threat and horror as long as there is no sustained focus on sadistic or sexualised threat.

BBFC – British Board of Film Classification

In order to protect children from unsuitable/ harmful content in films and videos and to give consumers information they might need about a particular film or video before deciding whether or not to view it, the BBFC examines and rates films and videos (based on age) before they are released. This independent scrutiny, prior to release, ensures the highest possible level of protection and empowerment.