Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Target audience

Evidiently, each genre of films are targeted at a specific target audience whether it is for children, teenagers, adults or everyone. The most popular genre has been considered as comedy. This is because comedy will appeal to everyone and therefore it is the most successful. The most well known genres of films are comedy, romance, horror, action, mystery, animation and thriller.



The Meet the Parents trilogy is one of the most successful comedy films. The target audience for this movie is a 12A as some reference to sex and drugs are made. It is obvious that this is a comedy for various reasons. The image used on the poster shows some sort of humour would be invovled adn by looking at the actors in the movie, you can imediately tell that it would be a comedy.







Titanic is one of the most well known, popular and loved films of all time. Again, the poster expresses so much information to the genre and target audience of the movie. It is evident that Titanic is a romance movie because of the two main characters who are close together on the poster. Also, the target audience for this would be aimed at everybody.













There are many horror movies which has been created over the years. However, the Saw series have been a big success because of its gore and mysterious plots. The target audience for this is a 18 because of its horrific and gruesome scenes. Also, I believe that many teenagers would be into this becuase of it's gory graphics. This may appeal to males more thatn females.













The Fast and Furious movies are classified as action movies. We can clearly see this by the poster. The car in the poster and hte characters starred in the movies suggest this. The target audience for this movie would be for mostly teenagers and some adults from the ages of 14/15 and above. This would mostly appeal to males because it is about racing.









Sherlock Holmes is a mystery film. This can be seen by the poster and the name of the title. It says 'a game of shadows'. This evidently suggest that the movie will require us to figure things out and have to put the pieces of the puzzle together. The target audience for this would be for teenagers and adults. I believe that this may appeal to adults more because of the complexity of the film. However, this can be for 16 year olds and above.












Alvin and The Chipmunks is also a trilogy. As you can see, this is an animated movie. The target audience for this is usually for children. However, this is also a family film. 













This can be considered as a psychological thriller because it requires the audience to think about the plot of the movie and try out figure out the questions that arise during the film. The target audience for this movie would be for teenagers of 16 and above and for adults too.
Depending on the genre and sub-genre of each movie, the target audience varies because of the difference in interests for each individual.


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