Thursday, 3 October 2013

Planning: Audience profiling



The ring audience profiling:

The Ring is of the same genre and style of our made up film, therefore they will attract similar target audiences. This means we can infer from the graph bellow who our film will predominately attract. The 15-24 age group was the highest percent of viewers, this suggests that we should model our scenes around teens, and have main characters of a similar age. The male to female ratio is pretty even, but female is slightly more. Mainly middle class are going to watch the films so we should therefore be based around this social group.

Further research:

Research:
Research has suggested that various motives for horror films include; the need for excitement, the desire to feel intense emotions, and distraction from everyday concerns. Horror films include violation of social norms and the portrayal of things that don't often happen in everyday life.
This type of violent entertainment appeals more to males. For many young people and adults horror films are a good topic of conversation. People tend to watch horror films in groups often to prove they can tolerate it, watching them in groups allows the people to prove to their friends that they can withstand the violent and often gory scenes.
When horror films include aspects of humour, the reactions of audiences will be milder. When violence is too real it can lose much of its appeal.

Areas to be considered when trying to please the target audience:
We plan to use scenes of intense horror to give a sense of achievement to enduring the film, this is something the target audience want to get out of watching such films.
We want to create scenes that can become talking points for social interaction as, mostly the target audience use media as social stimulants.
The target audience will watch horror films for the thrill and excitement; we aim to do this by creating scenes aimed at making the target audience jump.

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