Audience – Research into Similar Films

Almost Famous (2002)• From looking at IMDb stats,

the budget for this films was $60,000,000 with a gross of $32,522,352 (US) and £1,229,382 (GB). This is a very large amount of money both put into the film and how much the film earned from the audience. This amount of money shows that the audience for this film is a mass audience.

Almost Famous – type of audience members/fans

• From this screenshot of a review of the film, (http://finnclark.thiswaydown.org/Review/AlmostFamous.html), I noticed the author wrote that they are not the target audience, that the are musically illiterate, and that the movie itself was about rock and roll. This demonstrates that the target audience for this film is people who are interested and listen to rock and roll music.

Almost Famous – type of audience members/fans

• From this screenshot of a review of the film on IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181875/reviews-133), it says that this film in fact doesn’t have to be liked by just rock and roll fans to be successful, but that the film is liked by non-rock fans too. It says that the film has no specific target audience, which suggests that anyone from teenagers to adults can like this movie, therefore it has a mass audience.

Whiplash (2014)• Again, looking at IMDb

stats, the budget for this film is only $3,300,000 with a gross of just $13,939,392 (worldwide). This shows that the film’s audience is niche because it didn’t make as much money as Almost Famous for example. This is more of the film that my film will be like, as it is low-budget.

Whiplash – type of audience members/fans

• This screenshot is from https://www.cineaste.com/articles/emwhiplashem , which says that the target audience for this film is predominantly male, as both main characters are male themselves, which is true for my film too. This means that the target audience for my film will most likely be predominantly male. The music in this film is Jazz music and the making of music itself, so an audience interested in this music may find this film their type, however the protagonist is a young male, which could attract women, therefore the audience is wide but also niche at the same time because of the music genre.