Thursday, 9 February 2012

Chariss Lee- Question 5- Part 1

The Lost Boys
This film has a certificate of 15.
The target audience of this film are males aged 18-29- this may be because of the genre of the film being a comedy horror. When it comes to horrors both female and male may not like horror films full of gore, but here it is proven that males are more likely to watch/like horrors. 
Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1
This has a certificate of 12A.
the target audience in this film are males aged 18-29. I thought because of the genre of the film being a romantic horror it will draw females aged between 15-25. However because of the genre being a horror it automatically draws males because they are more into the gore side of things a lot more then women, however in this case because of the certificate being a 12A you instantly no that their will be no gore- so this is puzzling that the ratings here show that males ages 19-29 are the target audience. 

Dracula 2000
This has a certificate of 15.
The target audience here are also males aged 18-29. This being the 3rd vampire film having a target audience of males aged 18-29 i am realising that this may be who we should aim at to get the most ratings for our film. Although in a class discussion when wanting to make our certificate a 15, we had a debate that the film certificate should be risen to 18 so our target audience will come to see our films and do not choose not to only because it is rated at a 15 certificate, however in this case it shows that because of it being a 15 certificate does not mean a older generation will not come to see the film.

Let the Right One In
This had a certificate of 15.
The target audience in this film are males aged 18-29. This gender and age are proven to be a very popular target audience for vampire horror films. Also in this film with the vampire being female it shows that which ever gender the vampire is, males aged 18-29 are still going to see these films and are not bothered about the gender of the vampire. 



Let Me In
This has a certifiacate of 15.
Let Me In is the english version of Let The Right One In and males aged 18-29 are still the main target audience and this film has a dash of romance in the film and even making it a romantic horror the target audience are still 18-29 year olds.



Overall the majority of these films have a certificate of 15, however we are making our certificate a 18 because there will be constant swearing and a lot of gore throughout the film.
Our target audience are males aged 18-29, seeing these results have shown us what males aged 18-29 would like to see, so by watching each film we can get a great understanding of what our target audience are wanting. 








After researching into many vampire films on IMDB and looking at there target audience we made a decision to make or certificate a 18 and aim our film at 18-29 year olds. After seeing the majority of films above having a target audience of 18-29 we decided to watch a number of them each and get ideas of what our target audience may like. Our film to begin with starts with a number of female vampires, this is because we wanted to make our film a little different from others because in most vampire films, there is always a male vampire that is the leader. However making our main vampire a female will still draw males to the cinema. After asking a number of males aged 19, 20, 25 what they like to see in a horror vampire film they repsonded by saying 'a lot of gore', 'death', 'baddy and a goody', 'a hot vampire', 'blood', 'something different, like vampires may organise a dance club full of girls, but at the end of it, end up killing them all, apart from one girl and one boy'. This feedback gave us plenty of ideas what we could do with our film.


When planning our film we thought a main location such as a graveyard straight away relates to a vampire film and gives a great understanding what the genre of the film is to the target audience.
We didnt choose to have a lot of props in our film, this is because we wanted to show the power of the vampires just by using their body strengh. Men that like horror vampire films, like to see a lot of gore and action in their films.

In our title sequence we wanted to create fear and a tense feeling by doing a 'chase scene'. Building up tension by our female victim visting a graveyard but then hearing a number of creepy noises and deciding to leave, to then find out she is being followed by a number of female vampires and becoming trapped.


Vampire following victim.

Victim hearing noises.

 



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