Individual Research – Audience and Genre

Independent Research – Audience and Genre

 

Mainstream and Independent Audiences – Audiences can be split into two categories based on the films and the institutions that made the films they watch. The majority of the audience who enjoy films fall under the mainstream category. This is made up of most of the audience since this includes big budget companies that make the blockbuster films (e.g. The Bond Series). These films tend to be what the majority of audiences watch and makes up most of the film industry.

The independent category is much smaller than the mainstream audience. This is mostly due to the fact that independent film companies have a smaller budget and therefore do not have as many assets to work with. Independent companies also tend to have strange themes for their films therefore attract a fairly small audience. An example of this is the movie “A Field in England”. Film4 produced this movie and they are a fairly small independent company therefore they had a fairly small budget (when compared to a mainstream film) also this movie has themes that would not normally be covered into a mainstream film and therefore in comparison there is a clear difference between the types of film companies.

 

Genre - Film genres tend to help tell the audience what a film is about and each genre has generic conventions linked to it. This helps what the audience understand what the film may be about or contain (e.g. explosions are a generic convention of action films). Examples of genres are...

• Action
• Adventure
• Comedy
• Crime
• Fantasy
• Historical
• Horror
• Mystery
• Romance