What’s My Audience?

     These past few days I’ve been talking with my partner about possible ideas for our film and we stumbled across something we had learned in class, which is that the target audience is always important when developing a product. So we wondered, what is our main target audience?

    So I started doing some research on the target audience so that I could develop my film in a way that is aimed at that specific group of people. I found that the main target audience for coming of age films are teenagers, leaning towards a more female than male audience. Teenagers ages 12-18 are the main targets are they are most likely to relate to the content being shown in the films, such as first love, friendships, family relationships, or just overall pathways to adulthood. They all have common themes and use many mise-en-scene elements to help develop their characters. 

    This research on the target audience will allow me and my partner to be able to come up with ways to make our film aimed at that group of people to help illustrate our genre the best.