uses and gratifications

Audience and genre:

1. the uses and gratifications that our trailer appeals to are predominantly the need for escapism and the need to be entertained. the need for escapism mainly because our trailer is a horror genre trailer therefore the typical events that take place and occur during horror films are almost unheard of in real life, this appeals to our intended target audience because our target audience are mainly teenagers, and this means that they would be able to identify with the actors in our trailer, and relate to them, one of the members of our group does taekwondo, so he can knock out and decapitate the antagonist at any time, however in our trailer, we make it so that he is placed in a vulnerable position, this is so that our trailer further appeals to our target audience who are teenagers, we also constructed it by making it so that our location and setting was all of which eerie and ambient, this adds a enigma to the audience and further appeals to the use of needing to escape from the daily lives, as people watching it might think that they would never travel to a dangerous location such as that so they can watch and enjoy all from the safety of their home. our trailer may also spark debates or questions as to what our props were used, this in turns adheres to the uses because people will not be able to identify with our props because of how we used props which had to suit a horror film, but of which were not necessarily "normal", for example we used a horse mask.