Target Audience for our film

Horror films tend to follow the range of 15 to 18 years old. This is dues to the contents that are present within the film such as gore, blood and graphic scenes.

Horror films are designed to express the emotion of fear and suspense for the audience, horror films need to have the element of threat that potentially could cause harm or death. The feature of a threat that is usually one that cause harm will straight away give the film an age 15 certificate. If the threat causes explicit violence then the age rating can be raised to 18.

The higher the age for a horror film the more popular and better for sale. Horror film needs to portray threat, sometimes gore and violence. Horror films attract people who like the suspense element caused by violence and threat. Therefore the more intense the threat is and the conscience, the bigger the suspense as the danger is more present to the characters in the film. Which results in a higher age certificate.

Targeted at young adult and adults because the content is too inappropriate for children, meaning the age rating must be suited. Horror films target the young audience, just above the child audience, however the audience cuts of past mid 30's. This is down to young people being too old to watch films targeted at children and horror films create a sense of suspense and by not having an in depth plot makes it easy to follow and appropriate for teenagers. 

Our film will have an age rating 15 and will be targeted at teenagers between the age of 15 up 20 years of age. This is because it has a bit of gore with the hanging of Agnes, our protagonist, and because of this way in which she dies there is violence involved but not severe intense violence. Because of our ages as the producers of the film we had to make it suitable to people our age to watch; we could have added more violence and gore into our film but we decided to keep it t a minimal to keep in line with the age rating we decided to give it. The language in our film will not be too harsh so therefore it wouldn't be classed as an 18 age rating. The audience would go as high as age 20 because, even though they are old enough to watch higher rated films, they may still be interested in watching something a little less intense that what is legally allowed.