Evaluation Question Four: Who would be the main audience for your media product?

Who would be the main audience for your media product?

I believe that the main audience for our film will be in the age range from around fifteen years of age to to around thirty years of age. I think both males and females would enjoy our film, however I do believe that females may enjoy our film more than men as it does feature nothing but females and situations that many females can identify with.

The age range decision lays primarily on the fact that a fifteen age rating tends to include the following; strong violence, frequent strong language, 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 behaviour and lastly, drug taking. I believe our film includes a couple of the above and therefore I have placed our film as a fifteen upwards.

Feedback

I posted a number of questions on popular social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter, however, here I will post the answers from Facebook as I think they were the most detailed and had the most relevant answers. From the feedback given I took on-board the fact that a sense of enigma is vital throughout as well as having a good storyline. 

Inspiration

Inspiration for our film originally came from the 2010 film, Black Swan.

Black Swan follows the story of Nina (Natalie Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who zealously supports her daughters professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

Throughout the film there are many changes between the White Swan and the Black Swan in costumes, make up and personality. This dramatic effect is what we wanted to have occur in our film throughout except instead, we decided to use a split screen to make the differences stand out even more.