Evaluation Question 4 -Ryan Oldham

Question 4

The horror genre reflects the target audience's age group as the narrative can reflect the persons everyday life, for example the younger audience stereotypically gets in trouble often and are most likely to be the victim of a event that is present in a film, this is most often a female character. They tend to be stereotypically the 'blonde' stereotype with good looks to draw attention from the male audience. This can be seen in films such as The Ring.

Our extract followed this convention as we used a girl as the victim and set her in a bedroom so that the mise en scene represents what the male audience want to see. (Seen to the right). 

The audience feedback was positive for the representation of age in our film. It said that they thought the film was targeted at both genders which is an aspect of planning that we both agreed would be suitable for our horror film. It also said they the use of stereotypes followed the conventions of the horror genre and the gender roles were commonly found in other horror films. This would result in a success in drawing attention to our extract from our target audience.



It also said that some shots in our horror film were to long, resulting in a drop in suspense. To overcome this we cut down these shots (Walking past the bed to put the clown back) to try and keep the narrative of the story at a fast pace.