For this task, I have to look at the most popular Horror or Thriller short films play-list which is on YouTube of sizes of likes that people have put for the short film that was posted by filmmakers, the views that single video has got over time and have a look at the comments as well their profiles while considering of what age that people are at and their gender but the reason why I need to look at this is because the people that are possibly the target audience that are into to short films as well the two genres of Thriller and Horror. But I also to need inform my intended target audience about people's social network profiles by checking what are their interests and what they would be able to relate to for example because it will show understanding of undertaking primary research, so the whole objective is to present all of primary research as evidence with screen-+grabs of it.
The thriller short film that was first on the Short Horror playlist on Youtube and looked at was 2AM: The Smiling Man. The views that the video got is 3,704,354 million views which shows how much the short film caught the attention of the audience who watched this which also showed by the likes left on in the video of 28,598 likes which is also good as it is showing that the audience liked watching this short film.
This image is showing how many views did the 2AM: The Smiling Man got by the audience and how many likes or dislikes it has now.
After the watching this short film, I started to look through the comments of what the audience had said about this film. As I was looking through it, it was mainly positive comments about the film which is good for the person who uploaded the video as the audience were interested into seeing this short film and by leaving comments about it will show that people want to see more different short films has been uploaded by Micheal Evans (the person who uploaded this short film). I looked at some profiles from the people who commented on the short film. The first person that I looked at was YouTube channel was called Digscomics who left a positive comment on the short film of the Smiling Man but when I looked at his channel, he was not one of popular You-tubers on YouTube like KSI or Pewdiepie for example, as he had seven subscribers on his YouTube channel but he did have a Google+ profile which I clicked on to see what age and gender it is but it did not say at all. His interest is that this unknown person is into thriller films as it is their favourite genre of the movies he likes to watch and likes also some short films that is interest him or her.
This is one of the commenter's that was in the 2AM: The Smiling Man video and his YouTube Channel is called Digscomics which has seven subscribers.
Digscomics' Google Plus Profile
Another YouTube channel that I looked at who commented on the short film of 2AM: The Smiling Man is called TheLiteralMuffin but her name is Evie which shows that she is a girl. The channel is mainly based around of the game of Minecraft which is one of most popular games out today where the whole purpose of it is to be creative by building different constructions by the use of of textured cubes in 3D but this channel is not really that known by lots of people as she has 111 subscribers as she has made videos based around the game. So I decided to look at the profile on Google+ where there is a link to the YouTube channel to go on this profile but the only reason why I did this to see what age is this person at as I know already that the gender of this person is female but her profile on Google+ did not show what age she is. The interest is that she is into thriller short films where she wants the film to build tension throughout it because it is common in these types of films to get an climax to make it more interesting for the audience.
TheLiteralMuffin's Google+ Profile
In general, both genders (male and female) were commenting on the short film of the 2AM: The Smiling Man so therefore the target audience is for these two gender but who are into these thriller/Horror short films but the age of them is unknown as they did not disclosed it but it could be between the age of 13 to 18 years old
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