Film Research

To get a better idea of the audience who would watch our film as well as to establish a definitive genre and storyline for our film, I did some research into other films with a similar genre and narrative for inspiration.

As we wanted to primarily focus on the drama genre however add elements of sci-fi to make our film stand out, I looked at other films that combined these two. Similarly to our idea, a lot of these films combine the dystopia/utopian element which is the plot we were following.

1. Never Let Me Go (2010)
- Drama / Sci-fi / Romance
- 12A
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Gross Box Office : £1,473,603 (UK)

	Votes	Average
Males	53718	7.1
Females	36825	7.3
Aged under 18	783	7.6
Males under 18	209	7.5
Females under 18	558	7.7
Aged 18-29	52474	7.3
Males Aged 18-29	26489	7.2
Females Aged 18-29	25475	7.4
Aged 30-44	29385	7.0
Males Aged 30-44	20842	7.0
Females Aged 30-44	8150	7.1
Aged 45+	6583	7.1
Males Aged 45+	4922	7.1
Females Aged 45+	1563	7.3
IMDb staff	11	7.1
Top 1000 voters	470	6.3
US users	13572	7.2
Non-US users	61734	7.1
IMDb users	101767	7.2

The diagram to right is taken from IMDB and shows the user ratings for the film. The film score a weighted mean of 7.2/10 and the data shows that the best response was from females aged under 18.

2. The Host 

- Adventure / Romance / Sci-fi

- 12A

Budget: $40,000,000

Gross: $26,616,999 (USA)

           

	Votes	Average
Males	42043	5.6
Females	29724	6.5
Aged under 18	2139	7.0
Males under 18	511	6.0
Females under 18	1596	7.5
Aged 18-29	37937	6.1
Males Aged 18-29	18800	5.7
Females Aged 18-29	18745	6.6
Aged 30-44	22433	5.5
Males Aged 30-44	16388	5.4
Females Aged 30-44	5722	6.1
Aged 45+	4908	5.7
Males Aged 45+	3795	5.6
Females Aged 45+	1041	6.3
IMDb staff	8	4.6
Top 1000 voters	372	4.8
US users	11563	5.8
Non-US users	38896	5.7
IMDb users	85513	5.9

The IMDB user report for The Host shows that the best response for this film was once again females under 18. The next best response was then from females aged 18-29.

From this we can see that the typical audience for these types of films seem to be females aged under 18. Therefore I was able to gather a better understanding of the target audience for our film; we will be aiming our product at, generally, a young female audience from the ages of 14-20.