Wednesday 13 November 2013

Target Audience for Similar Films To Our Own

The Shining:
- Mainly male
- Mature audience
- Comprehensible to mature language
I felt this film is similar to ours because the location is all set mainly within a big house/mansion, where it seems almost "enclosed" [relation to our chosen film title] as they are stuck within the mansion where all problems are caused. There is also a clear transformation of personality within this film, which is similar to ours.



Mr. Brooks:
- 18 to 30 year olds, because of it's 18 rating with its violent nature
- Predominately male, with its violent nature stereotypically attracting a mainly male audience
- Kevin Costner [Mr. Brooks] being main character, attracting mainly males, but also opportunity to attract female audience, with use of an attractive main character
I felt this film was similar to ours as it is based on a successful businessman who has an alter ego who commits murders, whereas ours has a similar context as it's based on a boy who has been considered as being a victim of "schizophrenia" in an asylum, when he actually does not have this mental illness.

Shutter Island:
- Male and female audience
- Males attracted through heroic and main characters being male, opportunity for males to admire them
- Females attracted through the attractiveness of both main characters, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo
- 18 to 40 year olds
I felt this film was similar to our own because it was based in a mental unit, likewise with ours. It also had an opposite effect within the film to ours, where Teddy Daniels is thought to be a detective, whereas it turns out he is actually a patient within the firm. Our film, goes against this, where our main character of the boy is a patient within the asylum, but it turns out he was actually submitted for the wrong reasons, and does not have any case of schizophrenia.

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