Character Profile

Name: Stanley Robert Porter

Age: 19

Nationality: White British

Hometown: Baldock

Current Residence: Aberystwyth

Occupation: Part-time at Waitrose

Talents/Skills: Guitar, Geography, Hand-i-coordination, DofE Gold.

Siblings: Two sisters.

This person, I see to be a classic customer of our types of films. As a 19 year old boy, he has had much experience with video games and so has already acclimatized a somewhat ‘numb’ outlook on gore, violence and horror. He is also a university student which means that when visiting the cinema he could get a substantial discount, making more sense to see the film. He is English, and generally speaking, England as a country screen mostly American films, allowing the possibility of our film (when produced by an American company) to be distributed worldwide. His personality traits are generally desirable and is considered to be funny, individual and clever. A boy of this typical age would most likely go to the cinema with a group of friends to see a film.

This character would be attracted to our film due to the psychological twist in the opening of which you would see clips on the trailer. Being a smart teenager, he would want to possibly see how this played out and strike up a conversation with others about it, giving us more advertising also. The rating of our film would be a 15, enabling this person and friends of his to go and see it as a group. His ‘class’ so to speak is not applicable as he is a student and doesn’t have a permanent job as of yet. He earns around forty pounds per shift at Waitrose, which leads me to another factor. The price of the tickets would be cheaper with a student discount, but also for the fact that as University students, they generally have a living budget in which they have to live their lives with. Keeping this in mind and researching local costs of tickets which range between £4.95 and £7/8, the cheaper ticket option would appeal more to our desired audience.

On the other hand, we most certainly wouldn’t want someone like this:

 

This is not our target audience as clearly the girl isn’t much over 10. She is far too young to watch any sort of horror film and wouldn’t be able to visit the cinema to watch this as its rating is too high. She is a young girl who stereotypically probably prefers animated shorter movies with less of a psychological factor and more of a comical or even romantic genre. Generally speaking she probably has little knowledge of a ‘good’ movie and would easily settle for something mediocre. However, that being said, this viewer could relate to the teenage girl if she has older siblings and could be frightened by what happens, ruining her attitude to being home alone. This would have a negative effect on our film and would perhaps influence the older people in her life to not go and see the film, resulting in less profit for us. This sort of person would also not be allowed out by herself in the evening and so would most likely visit the cinema with her parents (adult supervision) and chances are they wouldn’t want to see a horror film either, especially in the company of an impressionable young girl.