Research into film audiance

After some research i can see that the film audience is crucial in getting a film out there. In the main stream the film audience is one of the first things thought about when thinking about a film, i can also see that different film audiences prefer different genres for example older people who may have been involved in ww2 will be interested in war films and our target audience which is 16-30 tend to watch the more fast paced cross genres like action thriller, horror thriller, sci-fi thriller etc. Target audience also rely on gender in thrillers there is a slightly higher male audience than female this is probably because females don’t enjoy fast paced action movies these days as most men do. Yet still there are exceptions such as the film ‘he loves me he loves me not’.



and the film ‘the roommate’

the roommate start off looking like a typical female film about a students life and friends which will straight away attract the female audience making them think its not a thriller, but half way into it when the attention of the audiences caught then the director reveals that it is a thriller but at this point the audience is interested in the story and will not care much about the genre. This is sort of like a trap to get the female audience watching a film by presenting what they like before and grabbing there attention. This is effective to get a larger audience (some males may even be interested in watching the film too as it has a sense of mystery and horror as well).