Research on the target audience for se7en and about film classifications

 Se7en

Classification: 18
Genre: Crime, mystery, thriller.

The classification for the film seven is 18. Although this is a higher classicfication than we decided to class our opening titles as we have looked in depth at the beginning shots of this film which don’t actually reveal anything to upsetting I predict that the beginning of the film would be classed as a 15 or a 12. According to a survey on a website called rotten tomoatoes, there is a high pecentage of 85% of critics reviews all posistive. Reading the reviews I can see that it has mainly attracted adults as the comments have a lot of formal language used.

Classification rules

Here are the classification rules for films. From this table you can see the different levels and what is included in each one, the definition of each classification helped us to establish what rating we are aiming to produce our film as. As we are looking at openings we wont reveal that much depth into gore, drug abuse and sexual references, so this will probably leave us with a classification of 12 or 15 as the beginning is still disturbing that may upset younger children. 

Mollie Knapp's research:

The Devil's Child:

Classification: 15

Genre: Horror

As you can see here the user who is reviewing the movie uses 'American slang', "i kept expecting this film to throw me a curve-ball at last minute". This shows that the movie has targeted a young American audience, shown by the language. 

Here is a reviewers information about them. As you can see the target audience here is a 30 year old mother, so the target audience varies to youths and adults. Meaning the target audience must be 15-30 years old.