QUESTION FOUR: WHO

WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

Before looking at specific ages for our target audience, we firstly came up with a of typical gender who tends to watch science fiction films than the other, the gender we had researched was the male gender from statistics and diagrams of well known different films. To fully understand the target audience for these films I have looked at three components: statistics from men and women on IMBD, poster and small quotes from well known sci-fi films.

INCEPTION(2010)

IMDb review of Inception The target audience of Inception is predominately aimed at young males between the age of 16-37 as its an action packed sci-fi. However the plot and storyline appeals to both genders. The statistics on the left represent the numbers of the most popular genres of films such as Science Fiction,Comedy,Romance etc. As I have produced an opening sequence for a science fiction film these are the statistics that I'm most interested in to see the percentages of audiences that would watch a sci-fi.

The science fiction genre has been ranked very low as with a disappointing 7.5% percentage of an audience that paid to watch a science fiction, this effects greatly on the target audience for my own opening sequence as the Drama genre have smashed that target with a percentage of 30.7%.

However in this poster you have the best of both worlds as although there are predominately males there is a female character on the cover as well which appeals to both genders female and male. In this poster we see a more male dominated audience as the male figure seen is holding a gun. The colour scheme of dark colours with flooding water The red coloured font has beneath the character creates connotations linked to blood, the effect of a juxtaposing world which gives off the which gives the impression that impression that killing will it has been over-ruled by a take place in the film or a superior power. The dark blues, mass takeover. The blacks and greys is more aimed simplicity of the font also at the male gender of creates a neutral audiences. identification of gender.

Looking at two of the posters used for advertising for the film Inception.

This is definitely a male influenced review of the film as men tend to do research on the film and reviews to see if its worth spending money on to go and watch.

Insanely Brilliant ! Nolan has outdone himself !!

Too much....WAY too much

Stereotypically the female gender are usually distinguished as more emotional than men, this review has been written by a female as they were shocked at what Inception had to offer as they are used to chick flicks.

This review has been written by a young male who could be a teenager as the term fail is usually linked into their terminology.

Inception: A Fail