Evaluation Q4: Emily Bland

From the IMDB research I did for the film 'The Ring' and 5 other films including 'Ghost Ship', we are aiming our horror film at a male audience between the ages of 18 and 29. From the research of the other horror films watched, the ages of the audience were either the same or very similar.

We plan to challenge the common representation of the lead victim as we are going to use a male actor instead of female so the male audience are able to relate much more easily to how the character reacts and how he might be feeling.

The film Ghost Ship portrays the male characters as fairly week people as they are soon killed or injured as they often put actions into motion without thinking about the consequences and this is what happened to some of the men in ghost ship. So our male character will be a very vulnerable character to reinforce the idea that men are weak in ghost films.