Target audience and genre for Teaser trailer

Teen-centred films

The Teen film genre is targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst, and alienation. Often these normally serious subject matters are presented in a glossy, stereotyped or trivialized way.

Films in this genre are often set in high schools, or contain characters that are of high school age. Sexual themes are also common, as are nudity and crude forms of humour

Since the 1950s the film industry saw a market for teens with a more disposable income and therefore more money to spend on leisure activities; largely going to films. Because of the boom in teen viewers, drive-in movie theatres were also very popular. Final Destination (2000) marked a successful revival of teen-centred horror and since then similar movies have been produced.

Examples of popular teen-

centred horror films

My production group have decided to target this audience. We feel teenagers and young adults are big consumers of the film industry and feel, we have a large audience waiting for another exciting teen centred film. We also feel we can provide certain creative aspects that an older production team may not be able to bring, as we are of the same age as our target audience and can relate more. We hope to incorporate aspects that will sell to our teens and have already decided to use young actors and the theme of rebellion, which from research we have seen is a big appeal to our audience. By combining this with horror we hope to achieve an exciting piece of work.

A Collage of what my audience may look like…

The collage represents the diversity of young teenagers today. My film will try and cater to

the wide range of personalities. It will also incorporate aspects which I have researched,

that relate to teenagers as a whole.