EVALUATION activity 4 - Kim Bradbury

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

This is Nicole Adams she is 16 years old and 8 months and is in Year 11 at Presdales girls school. She lives just North of London, in Hertford and she enjoys spending her time with her friends and shopping at the weekend where she will spends most of her money buying clothes, extensions and DVDs. Her casual wear would be mainly a black or white top and jeans. She enjoys shopping at TopShop, River Island, Primark, AllSaints and H&M. She loves top designer accessories but explains that most of them are way too expensive.

When she is not with her friends she spends time with her large amount of family her dog and her boyfriend. When  she is with her family she would either take her younger cousins to the cinema or spend time with her grandma and walking her dog with her. Her boyfriend Jack who is 18 has just bought a new car and she enjoyed helping him chose it because she is excited for her birthday which is soon and she hopes that she will get a car too. When she spends time with Jack they would normally spend the night in watching a new DVD or go out for a meal which Jack normally pays for as he has a job as a waiter in their nearby restaurant.

 Her favourite television programmes are The Mentalist on Channel 5 wear she tries to figure out the reasons to the cases before the characters do, Drop Dead Diva on Living which is a comedy about the ghost of a lawyer, and Nicole finds this amusing because she says, "I enjoy the sub-realism of there because ghost but I think that it is matched well with the comedy that it co-insides with aswell." and the soap Eastenders on BBC1.

She explains, "I absolutely love scary films, in the way that I hate watching them but the suspence make me want to carry on watching. I enjoy trying to figure out who the stalkers and killers could be but I often find myself hiding behind my hands when I can sense that a gruesome bit is coming. My favourite films are the ones that literally make me jump out of my seat." Her favourite films are The Strangers, Scream 1-4, American Physco, The Grudge and The Butterfly Effect. She enjoys watching them at the cinema and also buying them later on DVD and watching them with her friends, during sleepovers as she explains "I don't like watching them alone!"

She enjoys various types of music but her favourite is indie and scene music. Recently she went to see her favourite band live in concert, Fall Out Boy. She has seen them three times now - once even in Australia when she went to see them when she was visiting her father who lives out there. The band that accompanied them on stage was the All-American Rejects which she says that she enjoys listening to aswell. On her way to school she says that she is constantly listening to her iPod and she puts it on shuffle because she says she loves listening to anything, "as long as it has a good beat!"  And if she's not listening to her iPod the radio will normally be blasting, playing her favourite stations: XFM, Kerrang or sometimes Capital.
I think my film would appeal to Nicole because it is a thriller which she enjoys however there is not too much gore which she explains that she dislikes this if it is too excessive but mainly because it is filled with suspence. My film is one where you can watch with a group of friends or with your boyfriend. It is for those who enjoy scaring themselves when watching it at home in darkness, eating your popcorn. Nicole would go to watch this film at the cinema with her friends then buy it on DVD to show to her boyfriend afterwards so that she knows when she scary parts are coming so she can impress him by not acting too scared.