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I have created a mood board based on my ideal audience member. Looking at existing film characters, appearance, role models, life experiences, interests and relationships, I have created a detailed example of a typical audience member who would be able to enjoy and fully engage with the film.
I have created a mood board based on my ideal audience member. Looking at existing film characters, appearance, role models, life experiences, interests and relationships, I have created a detailed example of a typical audience member who would be able to enjoy and fully engage with the film.
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Appearance
My ideal audience member is quite young and stylish, but also casual and laid back. This applies to their dress sense, hairstyle and personality. Anything from T-shirts to heels goes, but they should have a good sense of humour and enjoy comedy films. It's also important that my ideal audience member can either relate to the characters or relate to the high school setting of the film.
A: Existing Film Characters
If I were to choose who my ideal audience member would be like based on existing comedy film characters, I would choose a combination of of characters, including Harold & Kumar, Jim from American Pie (1999) and Seth, Evan & Fogell from Superbad (2007).
The reason I chose these characters is because they all live typical lives, but get involved with extraordinary situations such as drug and crime related incidents. This relates to the idea that my ideal audience member should live an average life that contains comical elements.
B: Role Models
The role models of my ideal audience members would be Russell Howard and Jack Whitehall. The reason I chose these comedians is because their style of comedy is quite immature and uncouth, which relates to the sense of humour used in our film. Both comedians are also young and dress casually, which my typical audience member would be able to relate to.
C: Life Experiences
Our film would include unusual life experiences involving women, crime and embarrassing situations. The ideal audience member for our film would be able to relate to these events through experience and socialising. It's important that our audience members understands the occurrences in teenage life so they can connect with the characters and storyline of the film.
D: Interests
One thing that the characters in our film and our audience members should not see eye-to-eye on are interests and hobbies. Because the characters of the film are nerdy and social rejects, our audience members should find their lifestyles and interests laughable.
E: Relationships
Like all films, our comedy would contain relationships, both romantic and hostile. In order for our ideal audience member to engage with the film, they would be able to relate to these relationship types and understand the feelings and emotions associated with these connections.
