Evaluation 4

The target audience for our film is people aged 15-30, regardless of gender. We think people of these ages will be drawn to our film because the majority will all be able to remember when 9 11 happened so the film will have a loose personal link to them. The younger of the target audience (15-18) might not be able to remember the attack as clearly, but the use of modern technology, which is relevant to our generation, will hopefully be the attraction for them. Also, younger audiences are usually more attracted to thrillers, particularly males, so although our thriller isn't soley aimed at boys, we would expect more boys to be interested. Our secondary audience will be people aged 31-45, who will much more likely remember the 9 11 attacks and understand it better.

We were inspired by two films, Mercury Rising and War Games. Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the movie is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as Simple Simon. Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a nine-year-old boy with autism who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks a top secret government code. The film War Games follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The simulation causes a national nuclear missile scare and nearly starts World War III.
Both these films deal with very similar themes and ideas to our film, they were aimed at both males and females over the age of 15 and War Games in particular was a massive success.