Target audience research- The Woman in Black

 The Woman in Black

  

The version of this movie I am focusing on was released on 10th February 2012 as a adaptation of the original version produced in 1983. The first thing I noticed when looking at the information for this movie, is that it has been given a certificate of 12a.

The chart that is shown is to show the general target audience, the class range of people who choose to go and watch horror films, although this chart shows vaguely overall horror films it is based on only the film Woman in black.

The Woman in Black's target audience links into our film because it is a horror film and includes scenes that make you jump., and builds tension within the audience. The mise-en-scene also links the target audience in both the woman in lack and the film we will be making together because, we will use mise-en-scene the same way which will attract the same audience as the types of audience will look for the same types of things and mise-en-scene covers a lot in films.

The Woman in Black appeals mainly to the male audience because they are stereo-typically wanting to become a lot more scared whilst watching films as it builds up their adrenaline and gives them a good feeling. 

  A lot of the female audience probably got taken to see the movie with their boyfriend/husband, this isn't always the case; many females enjoy watching horror movies which subverts the stereotype of only males enjoying this genre of film. As we are using a group of teenage girls as the subject in the opening scene this will hopefully intrigue the male audience because they would be attracted to these characters, we are also hoping this will make female want to see our movie because they will feel as though they can relate to the situation because the characters are teenage girls; teenagers are the main target audience for horror movies and this target audience goes up to the ages 24 if the film is rated 15.