My Chosen Audience

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Due to the fact that the people who filled in my questionnaire (primary audience research) are aged between 16 and 19, this is the group of people that I am going to try my best to appeal to as they are the only people that I have feedback and results from regarding the answers to questions I asked on my questionnaire. Therefore the age rating that I need to go for is a 15 because even though a 16 is the lowest age I am appealing to there is no 16 age rating, only a 15 and then an 18, and if I went for the 18 age rating then it would mean excluding the ages 16 and 17.

From the answers I received regarding genre in my questionnaire the most popular ones were comedy at number 1 fantasy at number 2 and horror and thriller were tied 3. But, I am not just going to go for comedy as  my main genre because creating anything in the comedy genre simply isn't my strong point and even though it was number one, I only surveyed a small number of people so it’s not as though it will appeal to a large number of people in reality. So, what I am going to do is combine all four of the most liked genres and hope that such a medley of different elements will appeal to a wider audience. Also, trying to include the thriller and horror genre potentially more than the rest makes having a 15 for my age rating appropriate due to the fact that my film could end up containing some elements of violence or gore and this simply would not be suitable for people under the age of 15.