Question 4 Finished

When conducting our media research we found that the age group that would watch our film would be males from the ages of 15 and above and females from the ages of 14 above. However if we were to put a certificate to our film it would most likely be either a 12A or a 15 this would be due to the amount of violence the film may contain.  With being a 1960s gangster film we also feel that it would have slight discrimination in it due to the time. This is why we feel our piece should be rated at 15.

This is what certifies a 15 Rating 

·       Yes. 15 works are stronger than 12 or 12A rated works and could include any of the following:

strong violence

·       frequent strong language (eg '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 behaviour

·       drug taking

When looking at our research we also discovered that a large amount of women would not want to watch thrillers due to their gory nature and that the gangster idea did not appeal to woman’s liking to much.

How we researched our audience?

 First our group collaborated and then decided what questions to put in a questionnaire did this. Once this was done we then printed ten sheets of each and gave them to random friends and family. Which we felt was ok however this could be a slight backfire due to the fact friends and family can be biased which is not what we wanted. So to make sure this did not happened we told our friends and family to be impartial and to give us honest results. By doing this it gave us our target audience and we had extra ideas on what to add to our short clip of film. The reason we had to research our audience was to help us determine what shots and music etc. we should add to our thriller to make the audience feel on edge. We found that our research was successful as it allowed us to find the best music to fit our piece and to add suspense which would hopefully give us more marks over all.

From our findings with our questionnaire  we found that the our age group we would be targeting were people from the ages of 14-15 and also their favourite type of thriller was an action thriller this is what our was going to be so this panned out for us really well. Also the music that they thought would be best would be low-key eerie music during tense moments. As our film opening does not contain to much action and  we did not need the beat to pick up during fight or action parts. Like on the image to the right and slow beat with the image on the left.

What is the BBFC ?

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), originally British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organisation, funded by the film industry and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films within the United Kingdom.[1] It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the Video Recordings Act 2010